The George I. Alden Trust of Worcester, Mass. has awarded Vassar a grant toward the Vassar Libraries’ ambitious Learning Commons project, which will renovate over 11,000 square feet in the Main Library’s north wing to repurpose and optimize available space and improve accessibility.

Candy was selected for her book project Transborder Affect: The Intersection Between Emotions, Inequalities, and Healing within Oaxacan Communities. Candy’s research provides a multi-layered interpretation of Oaxacans’ own words, embodiments, and processes for discussing inequalities, emotional distress, and healing processes.

Molly published the book with her 25-year mentor, scholar and poet Inés Hernández-Ávila (Nez Perce/Tejana) from UC Davis. The book is a collection of essays by contemporary Native American poets that highlight the role of poetry in Native American and Indigenous Studies.

Keri VanCamp, Director of the Field Station and Ecological Preserve, and her collaborators received another grant from the Lower Hudson Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (LH-PRISM).

Lisa has received multiple accolades for her book Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee’s Bend Quilt (U. of Washington Press, 2023; paperback, 2025), including Bard Graduate Center’s Horowitz Book Prize. She was also selected as a 2025–2026 Getty Scholar, which will allow her to deepen her new book project “tending towards” during a residential fellowship at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

Carl was awarded the fellowship for his project Resonant Coastlines, a feature-length experimental film that tethers a young man’s emerging queer identity—captured in his stream-of-consciousness filmmaking practice—to Maine’s unseen histories and forgotten landscapes.

China was awarded the fellowship for her book project Debt and Refuge: Syrian Farmworkers and the Politics of Displacement in Lebanon. Her ethnography of Syrian refugees who have long-standing ties to Lebanon as seasonal farmworkers makes a case for radically rethinking forced migration as an agrarian question of labor and feminist question of social reproduction, as debt at every scale of life governs how people move across borders.

The Scholars at Risk Network (SAR) provides funding to support an at-Risk scholar. For 2025–26 Vassar’s Drama department welcomes an award-winning writer, director, and producer with multiple publications, Patricia Achiro Olwoch. Achiro was previously an at-risk scholar at Barnard University.