Stories

Aug. 31, 2020

As a Ford Scholar, self-proclaimed “baseball nut” Alex Eisert spent the summer immersing himself in the world of minor league baseball.

Apr. 22, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the cancellation of the 2020 season of Powerhouse Theater, Vassar College and New York Stage and Film announced this week.

Dec. 18, 2019

The Vassar community witnessed some remarkable events and achievements in 2019. Here are some of the highlights:

Oct. 25, 2019

Fourteen first-year students got a jump on their college careers this summer as members of the Summer Immersion in the Liberal Arts program sponsored by Vassar’s Engaged Pluralism Initiative (EPI). The young men and women, many of whom are the first in their families to attend college, spent four weeks on campus taking specially designed, credit-bearing courses, learning about resources the college offers, and taking part in service-based learning in the Poughkeepsie area.

Aug. 27, 2019

Learning that setbacks are an integral part of research, about 60 Vassar students took part in projects this summer on the auspices of the Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI) and Ford Scholars programs.

Aug. 7, 2019

A graduation ceremony and the completion of a mural capped Vassar’s inaugural New Americans program, a two-week session designed to provide high-achieving, recent immigrants currently in high school an opportunity to learn about ways to thrive in college.

Aug. 6, 2018

More than two dozen students collaborated with humanities faculty this summer in research projects under the auspices of Vassar’s Ford Scholar program.

Aug. 16, 2017

Now in its 20^th year, Vassar’s Community Fellows program places students in Poughkeepsie not-for-profit agencies for a summer of hands-on learning and community engagement.

Aug. 15, 2017

Working under the auspices of Vassar’s Undergraduate Research Summer Institute, George Whiteside ’18 and Dylan Horowitz ‘19 adapted an impulsivity test so that it can be administered not only on smart phones but also on smart watches and voice-activated virtual assistant devices such as Google Assistant.

Aug. 11, 2017

Under the auspices of the Ford Scholars Program, two Vassar students spent the summer working with Associate Prof. of Anthropology Candice Lowe Swift on an assessment of one of Poughkeepsie’s most beloved nonprofits.

Aug. 10, 2017

Under the auspices of the Ford Scholars Program, Karly Andreassen ’20 assisted Associate Prof. of Art Andrew Tallon in updating and enhancing his 360° images of cathedrals in Europe and exploring the use of 360° video to document the decay at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.

Aug. 1, 2017

Working under the direction of Associate Prof. of Anthropology April Beisaw, six Vassar students are helping the National Park Service gain a fuller understanding of what happened on FDR’s land while he and his family lived there.

Aug. 1, 2017

Assistant Profs. of Biology Justin Touchon and Megan Gall and their URSI fellows are exploring how tadpoles from the same family differentiate and how adult frogs choose a mate.

Jul. 31, 2017

By the end of the 20^th century, more than 100,000 miles of railroad track had been abandoned. What happened to communities where the railroads disappeared?

Jul. 31, 2017

Assistant Political Science Prof. Taneisha Means and Ford Scholar Kaitlin Prado ’19 aim to survey black judges across the U.S. to assess their experiences in and perspectives on the judicial system.

Jul. 31, 2017

Under the auspices of Vassar’s Ford Scholars program, Gabriela Mandeville ’19 and Hispanic Studies Prof. Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert traveled to St. Lucia and Dominica to talk to forest rangers, government officials, and others responsible for protecting the Amazon parrots that have made a comeback from the brink of extinction.

Jul. 19, 2017

Classes in acting, voice, and movement, workshops and tech sessions, rehearsals and performances—for apprentices in the Powerhouse Theater Training Program, it’s nonstop during their 39-day theater intensive on the Vassar campus. Follow apprentice Rachel Altemose ’19 for a day to get a taste of the acting life.