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

  • Anne McNiff Tatlock ’61 Faculty Strategic Support Fund
  • Annette Minna Martha Lamousé Fund
  • Asprey Center for Collaborative Approaches to the Sciences
  • Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
  • Christina Sarstedt Schwaber ’72 and Ken Schwaber Fund
  • Data Science and Society (DSS) at Vassar College
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • Donna Bergen M.D. ’67 and Thomas Madden M.D. Expendable Academic Internship Fund
  • Dr. Beverly Gilbert Coleman ’70 Fellowship
  • The Elise Nichols Bloch ’03 and Margaret Sawyer Bloch ’36 Fellowship
  • Ellen Dickstein Kominers '77 and William Kominers
  • Gabrielle Snyder Beck Fund
  • Gin E. and Fon Li Memorial Fund
  • Joan E. Morgenthau Hirschhorn ’45-44 Fund
  • Joseph H. and Florence A. Roblee Foundation
  • The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
  • Mark K. Peabody Northeast Astronomy Consortium
  • Maya Doner Goldschmidt ’67 Fund
  • Miriam Basek Worthing ’55 URSI Endowed Fund
  • Nancy Olmsted Kaehr ’60 Fund
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Science Foundation
  • Patricia R. Johnson and M.R.C Greenwood Fund - established by Jeri Johnson-Horn ’78
  • Priscilla Bullitt Collins ’42 Fund for Environmental Sciences
  • Research Corporation for Science Advancement
  • Roberta Brandenberger ’46 Fund
  • The Starr Foundation
  • Stern Goldin Family Summer Internship
  • The Endeavor Foundation
  • The Strauss/Murdoch Family Fund
  • Susan Lee Stoddard ’70 Fund
  • 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
  • W.M. Keck Foundation Northeast Astronomy Consortium