Communicating Science

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URSI Provides a Deep Dive into Nanotech and AI

URSI projects in the summer of 2024 included research in AI and nanotechnology.

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Vassar Professor Leads Effort to Teach Statistics System to Undergrads

Faculty members from more than 20 colleges and universities attended a weeklong workshop at Vassar on the teaching of the Bayesian method of statistics to undergraduates.

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Student Scientists Make the Most of Research Trip to Iceland

Sixteen students from a variety of science disciplines and two faculty members spent two weeks conducting a wide variety of research projects.

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Keri VanCamp, Director of the Field Station and Ecological Preserve, and Her Collaborators Receive a Grant from the Lower Hudson Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (LH-PRISM)

This grant award will support the continuing project of invasive species monitoring, assessment, and control this summer on Vassar’s Ecological Preserve, as well as at collaborator's sites.

New Alum Earns Top Author Honors for Vassar Undergrad Research on Spiders

Max VanDyck ’23 used his knowledge of biochemistry to help a team of scientists unlock some secrets about some spiders who are very good at catching moths.