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RECOGNITION   David Bradley, Associate Professor of Physics, is a recipient of the Acoustical Society of America’s (ASA) 2017 Science Writing Award for Professionals in Acoustics for Worship Space Acoustics: 3 Decades of Design, which he co-edited with Erica Ryherd and Lauren Ronsse. The award includes travel expenses to attend the 174th ASA meeting in New Orleans, which will include formal presentation of the […]

RECOGNITION   Nancy Ide, Professor of Computer Science, was awarded funding from the National Science Foundation via subaward with The Pennsylvania State University for her role in an ongoing open, web-based infrastructure project that addresses challenges in providing interoperable access to hundreds of Natural Language Processing (NLP) component web services, together with facilities for service discovery, service composition, performance evaluation, and resource delivery […]

***FACULTY FUNDING SURVEY!*** From the Faculty Committee on Research: The Faculty Committee on Research and the Office for Faculty Research Development are interested in your input concerning how you use research committee funds and how the program meets your research needs. At your earliest convenience, please complete the brief survey available at the following link: https://goo.gl/forms/UB6gJW9GOuKyjcxk2 RECOGNITION […]

RECOGNITION Brian Daly, Associate Professor and Chair of Physics and Astronomy, was awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research project “Acoustic Phonons in Nanostructures: Surface Waves, Thermal Transport, and Imaging”.  Funded by NSF’s Division of Materials Research, Professor Daly’s project will seek to demonstrate that high-frequency ultrasonic vibrations known as acoustic phonons can be […]

This bulletin is issued regularly during the academic year to provide information on some funding opportunities available for research, fellowship, professional development and more. Note that this is not intended to be a comprehensive list. For more information, to suggest inclusions or to have your publication or grant news shared in a future bulletin, contact Gary Hohenberger at gahohenberger@vassar.edu. These bulletins […]

RECOGNITION      Nicholas Adams, Professor of Art on the Mary Conover Mellon Chair, both originated and curated Building Buffalo: Buildings from Books, Books from Buildings, a major exhibition of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (BECL), New York. With support from the Vassar College Faculty Committee on Research, Adams offered to curate an exhibit of rare books in the library’s […]

RECOGNITION                           Maria Hantzopoulos, Associate Professor of Education, is co-editor (with Monisha Bajaj) of Peace Education: International Perspectives (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016) which received Honorable Mention in the Education Practice category of the 2017 PROSE Awards. Through the annual Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Awards, the Association of American Publishers recognizes the best in professional and scholarly books, journals and electronic content publishing across 53 categories.“ […]

RECOGNITION Cindy Schwarz, Professor of Physics, was unanimously selected by the Awards Committee of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) as the 2017 recipient of the David Halliday and Robert Resnick Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Physics Teaching, awarded each year to a single nominee in recognition of extraordinary accomplishment in communicating the excitement of physics to college students. AAPT […]

RECOGNITION Maria Höhn, Professor of History, with her collaborators at Bard, Bennington and Sarah Lawrence colleges, received a planning grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support efforts by the developing Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement and Education. Building on the efforts of the Vassar Refugee Solidarity initiative, this project will allow the Consortium and its partners to explore development of […]

RECOGNITION Travis Wilkerson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Film, has had a project accepted by the Sundance Institute for the 2017 New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival. As president and founder of Sundance Robert Redford observed of New Frontier, “Every year, more artists are drawn to the vanguard of art and technology: independent, creative storytellers have more tools to break the […]