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Two smiling people in a lab wearing gloves and holding lab containers.

Deep cuts in government funding for scientific research have forced many colleges and other institutions to curtail or even eliminate many research programs. This is not the case at Vassar. The College’s Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI) ran right on schedule this summer.

A photo of Mae Buck ’26, a person with long brown hair and a red dress. Buck is sitting outside in the sunlight with grass in the background.

In a profoundly challenging time for higher-education funding characterized by federal retrenchment and disappearing grants, Mae Buck ’26 has been awarded a Beinecke Scholarship worth $35,000.