Wendy Maragh Taylor, Associate Dean of the College for Student Growth and Engagement, and Leora Gansworth, Assistant Professor of Native American Studies, are the co-project leads for a new Capacity-Building Grant from the Educating Character Initiative (ECI), a project of The Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University. ECI offers these Capacity-Building Grants to “provide institutions with the time, resources, and support to discern how character education works best in their context.”

Louis Römer, Lecturer in Anthropology, has been awarded a Wenner-Gren Fellowship to complete his book project, Strategic Ambiguities: Race, Class, and Populism on the Caribbean Airwaves. The ethnographic research informing this project was also funded by Wenner-Gren.

A team of Vassar College researchers, headed by President Elizabeth H. Bradley, have secured a grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation for a “Study and Showcase on Institutional Equity, College Completion, and Subsequent Earnings.”

Hadley Bergstrom, Professor of Psychological Science and Director of Neuroscience and Behavior, received a new grant from the National Institutes of Health for his ongoing research project, titled “Differentiating fear generalization and extinction neuronal ensembles in prefrontal cortex.”

Vassar received institutional funding from Interfaith America (IA) through the Prejudice to Pluralism initiative. The co-PIs on the grant are Rev. Callista Isabelle, Associate Dean of the College for Religious and Spiritual Life and Contemplative Practices; Kimberly Williams Brown, Associate Professor of Education and Director of Engaged Pluralism; and Carlos Alamo, Dean of the College and Professor of Sociology.

Seungsook Moon, Professor of Sociology, and Jihye Seong, Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, were awarded a 2026 Seed Program for Korean Studies grant from The Academy of Korean Studies under the Ministry of Education, South Korea, to promote the development of Korean Studies.

Vassar’s new NetVUE grant, supported by the Council of Independent Colleges and Lilly Endowment Inc., is led by Wendy Maragh Taylor, Associate Dean of the College for Student Growth and Engagement, and Tamyka Jordon-Conlin, Assistant Professor of Music.