Celebrating Scholarship

Vassar Grants in Action highlights and celebrates the grant funding, principal investigators, and project leadership that enrich faculty research and scholarship, institutional programs and priorities, and the student experience at Vassar.

Headshot of Kimberly Williams Brown

Kimberly Williams Brown, Assistant Professor of Education, is co-author of Say, Listen: Writing as Care, a new book by The Black | Indigenous 100s Collective. A project of seven scholars working within Blackness and Indigeneity, the Black | Indigenous 100s Collective takes a new approach to thinking, writing, and practicing care.

Charles Steinhorn

Charles Steinhorn, Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, was awarded a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York to undergird the ongoing STEM Teaching Experiences for Undergraduates (TEU) program in New York City, in partnership with the American Museum of Natural History and Barnard College.

Jingchen (Monika) Hu

Jingchen (Monika) Hu, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, received funding to work on the creation of synthetic data for the Survey of Earned Doctorates and Development. The team of collaborators will produce a synthetic data file with tiered access for public use, explore its use for evidence-building, and test the use of verification metrics in validating estimates produced from the data.

Headshot of Alberto Gelmi

Alberto Gelmi, Assistant Professor of Italian, co-edited a recently published volume entitled Rappresentare per includere. Metodi, strumenti e testi per un italiano plurale. The publication was made possible by the generous support of Vassar’s Research Committee and the University of Arkansas, and it was launched on October 17 at the Italian Institute of Culture in New York City during the Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel mondo (the week of the Italian language in the world).

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