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Vassar’s Preserve Receives Grant for “Sowing Seeds of Engagement: Meadow Restoration Demonstration Area”

Keri VanCamp, Director of the Preserve at Vassar–in collaboration with Jen Rubbo, Director of the Environmental Cooperative; Dean Jaeger, Grounds Manager; Evan Lasher, Grounds Foreman; and Ethan Skuches, Vassar-Kenauk Conservation Fellow–was selected by the Partners for Climate Action (PCA) for an Ecological Restoration Grant supporting creative and engaging ways to support pollinators through native meadow restoration in the Hudson Valley bioregion.

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Office of Sustainability Receives Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Climate Corps Summer Fellow Support

Kenneth Foster, Director of Sustainability, received a grant from the Environmental Defense Fund’s Climate Corps fellowship program to host a summer fellow. EDF’s Climate Corps is a “hands-on summer program” where graduate students are matched with top companies and nonprofit organizations to advance climate and energy goals. Vassar has hosted multiple EDF summer fellows since 2014.

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Vassar Points the Way Forward on Sustainability with Tour for Local Officials

Vassar Sustainability Director Kenneth Foster recently led a group of town and county officials on a tour of The Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts to show them the building’s state-of-the-art energy conservation systems.

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EcoVisions Brings Together Diverse Voices for Environmental Action

The Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts hosted EcoVisions, a three-day conference on community and global responses to climate change.

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Vassar-Edinburgh Partnership Breaks New Ground

The BA/MSc collaboration focuses on global climate change and will prepare students to help generate new ideas that may offer solutions. Students will earn an undergraduate bachelor’s degree from Vassar and a master’s in science from the University of Edinburgh.

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Vassar’s New Director of Sustainability—Charting a Path to Our “Renewable” Future

Vassar’s new Sustainability Director, Kenneth Foster, is mapping multifaceted plans to guide the College toward its goal of carbon neutrality.

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Olmsted Conference at Vassar Explores the Benefits of Beautiful Landscapes

A recent conference paid tribute to the vision of renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and focused on the benefits of living and working in a beautiful natural setting. Conference attendees spent a full day on the lush Vassar campus.

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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.

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Environmental Research Institute Symposium Tackles Climate Change

Students, faculty, and administrators gathered recently in Thompson Library for a symposium sponsored by the Vassar Environmental Research Institute, where they shared ideas on ways to combat climate change.