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Exterior of a building nestled among fall foliage.

The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation has awarded Vassar’s Archives and Special Collections Library, under the leadership of the Head of Special Collections, Ron Patkus, a grant to preserve the records of Vassar’s Communications Office, which date from 1915.

Photo portrait of someone standing in front of a stone wall.

Yvonne Elet was awarded the Elizabeth Blair Macdougall Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians for her book Urban Landscape in the Third Rome: Raphael’s Villa and Mussolini’s Forum, which explores the twentieth-century recreation of the “Renaissance” gardens of Villa Madama, planned by Raphael, and “details how the restored villa came to be integrated into one of the most significant urban initiatives of the 20-year Fascist rule.”