Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI)

Tracking Blandings turtles and monitoring nesting areas.

Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI)

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

Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI)

Recreating an ecological laboratory on the Vassar campus. 

Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI)

Deploying “oobinators” to combat the emerald ash borer.

Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI)

Preparing a protein sample for the atomic force microscope.

Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI)

Using lasers to analyze the physical properties of silicon wafers. 

Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI)

Preparing soil samples for chemical analysis.

Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI)

Building robots to study evolution. 

Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI)

Investigating the safety of “green” pesticides. 

Funding

  • Asprey Center for Collaborative Approaches to the Sciences
  • Gabrielle Snyder Beck Internship
  • Donna Bergen M.D. ’67 and Thomas Madden M.D. Expendable Academic Internship Fund (URSI)
  • The Elise Nichols Bloch ’03 and Margaret Sawyer Bloch ’36 Fellowship
  • Roberta Brandenberger ’46 Fund for Chemistry Research
  • Dr. John V. Capotorto ’81 URSI Endowed Fund
  • Class of 1942 Fund for Environmental Science
  • Dr. Beverly Gilbert Coleman ’70 Fellowship
  • Data Science and Society (DSS) at Vassar College
  • Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
  • The Endeavor Foundation
  • Francis Fuoco URSI Fund for the Farm and Ecological Preserve
  • Stern Goldin Family Summer Internship
  • Maya Doner Goldschmidt ’67 Fund
  • The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
  • HHMI Grand Challenges Grant
  • Joan E. Morgenthau Hirschhorn ’45-44 Fund
  • Nancy Olmsted Kaehr ’60 Fund
  • Ellen Dickstein Kominers ’77 Family
  • Annette Minna Martha Lamousé Fund
  • The Gin E. and Fon Li Memorial Fund
  • Susan Mischler ’70 Natural Science Research Fund
  • Bruce Mitlak ’80 URSI Fund
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Science Foundation
  • Mark K. Peabody Northeast Astronomy Consortium
  • Joseph H. and Florence A. Roblee Foundation
  • Mr. David Roe
  • Babette S. Rogol ’61 Fund
  • The Christina Sarstedt Schwaber ’72 and Ken Schwaber Fund
  • The Starr Foundation
  • Susan Lee Stoddard ’70 Fund
  • The Strauss/Murdoch Family Fund
  • Anne McNiff Tatlock ’61 Faculty Strategic Support Fund
  • URSI Endowed Fund for Access and Excellence in Math and Science
  • Vassar College Computing and Information Services
  • Vassar College Faculty Start-Up Fund
  • Vassar College Office of the Dean of the Faculty
  • Vassar Environmental Research Institute
  • Miriam Basek Worthing ’55 URSI Endowed Fund