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. 

Symposium 2025

Undergraduate Research
Summer Institute Symposium

September 17, 2025

3:00

Introductory Remarks

Professor Demetrius Eudell, Dean of the Faculty

Professor Hadley Bergstrom, URSI Director

3:15

Students’ Oral Presentations on Summer Research

When do children consider inequalities "unfair"?
Asiyah Abbas ’27, Carmen Haley ’27
(mentor: Rebecca Peretz-Lange, Assistant Professor of Psychological Science)

How does eIF3 mediate translation initiation through interactions with mRNA?
Lea Repovic ’28
(mentor: Colin Echeverría Aitken, Associate Professor of Biology)

Clues for the Missing Prime
Jay Chen ’27, Dorien Laurens ’26, Jasper Piermarini ’26, Harriet Simons ’27
(mentor: Trevor Hyde, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics)

4:00

Keynote Address

Engrams and memory in mice
Professor Sheena Josselyn

5:00

Poster Session A

5:30

Poster Session B

6:30

Dinner Celebration for faculty and students