Summer Programs

Student standing in front of a poster explaining it while gesticulating to a group of people off camera

Students, faculty, and administrators who took part in the 2022 Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI) celebrated their research projects at URSI’s annual Symposium.

John Murphy, the Loeb’s curator of prints and drawings, and Ford Scholar Carissa Kolcun pose with 11033, an artist’s book that chronicles the story of Mary Morst, who gave birth to twins while she was incarcerated in a Virginia prison in 1913.

Ford Scholar Carissa Kolcun’s keen interest in the works of art created at the Women’s Studio Workshop will be on display this fall at an exhibition they curated in the Loeb’s Spotlight Gallery.  

A large group of people holding up certificates in a large wood-adorned room with a projector screen in the background.

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.