
Tracking Blandings turtles and monitoring nesting areas.

Evaluating the health of the Fonteyn Kill, a stream that runs through campus.

Recreating an ecological laboratory on the Vassar campus.

Deploying “oobinators” to combat the emerald ash borer.

Preparing a protein sample for the atomic force microscope.

Using lasers to analyze the physical properties of silicon wafers.

Preparing soil samples for chemical analysis.

Building robots to study evolution.

Investigating the safety of “green” pesticides.
Contact
Undergraduate Research Summer Institute
124 Raymond Avenue Box 731
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0731
(845) 437-7306
Director
Benjamin Lotto
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Assistant Director
Hadley Bergstrom
Assistant Professor of Psychological Science
Coordinator
Susan Painter
Administrative Assistant in Biology, URSI Coordinator