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Three people stand in front of a banner that says “The Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts”. President Elizabeth Bradley, a person with short gray hair and a blue dress, stands between a person with gray hair and a gray suit and a person with gray hair and a blue checked suit.
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Vassar presented the findings from its nearly three years of study into why some colleges and universities—even those with limited resources—graduate their students at a far higher rate than others. The research was presented in the context of a convening of educators from a dozen institutions, foundation leaders, and policy makers at The Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts.

Several people, including President Bradley, cutting a ribbon with a large pair of scissors at the Chinery Neuroscience Laboratory Ribbon Cutting & Dedication.

A conversation over lunch between President Elizabeth Bradley and Chinery Foundation attorney and Trustee Jayne Kurzman ’68 led to a $1.3-million gift for a new neuroscience lab housing eight new state-of-the-art microscopes.

Two people standing in a classroom speaking to each other with other people and classroom tables in the background. One of the people speaking is wearing a camouflage, military uniform.

Professor of Physics and Astronomy Jenny Magnes kicked off her leadership of Vassar’s West Point Initiative with a visit by six members of the West Point faculty to explore how the two institutions can share their scientific equipment, including Vassar’s new quantum computer.