Jennifer Rubbo, Director of the Environmental Cooperative, was awarded two grants by Dutchess County’s Department of Community and Family Services, made possible by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, in support of youth outreach programming at the Vassar Preserve.

Vassar’s new NetVUE grant, supported by the Council of Independent Colleges and Lilly Endowment Inc., is led by Wendy Maragh Taylor, Associate Dean of the College for Student Growth and Engagement, and Tamyka Jordon-Conlin, Assistant Professor of Music.

Robin Belton, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, received a 2026 Promoting Research Opportunities and Open Forums (PROOF) award to support her collaborative research project and summer team meeting at UC Berkeley.

Leroy Cooper, Associate Professor of Biology and the Pauline Newman Director of Science, Technology, and Society, received a research grant from NIH for his study titled “Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of smoking behavior with measures of subclinical vascular brain injury and microvascular function,” which will explore how smoking and quitting smoking affect blood vessels and brain health over time.

In collaboration with two colleagues from Yale University, Zhengren Zhu, Assistant Professor of Economics, received a grant from the Urban Institute’s Student Upward Mobility Initiative (SUMI) for a research study titled Dual Enrollment Courses and Upward Mobility: Which Skills, and for Whom?

Trevor Hyde, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, received the American Mathematical Society’s AMS-Simons Research Enhancement Grant for Primarily Undergraduate Institute (PUI) Faculty for his research in arithmetic dynamics.