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Nicknamed The Seven Sisters, the consortium of women’s colleges— Barnard, Bryn Mawr , Mount Holyoke, Smith, Radcliffe, Vassar, and Wellesley—was officially formed in 1926 in order to combat “the…crisis which the women’s colleges [were] facing,” namely, the difficulties women’s schools were having in raising endowment money sufficient for the desired caliber of education for ...
Histoire Vassar College, vers 1862. L'université est fondée en 1861 par Matthew Vassar, dans la vallée de Hudson, à environ 100 kilomètres au nord de New York.La première personne qui fit officiellement partie du corps enseignant fut l'astronome Maria Mitchell, en 1865 ; Hannah Lyman en est sa première rectrice. Dans ses premières années, Vassar est associée à l'élite protestante.
About Vassar College. Founded in 1861, Vassar College is a liberal arts institution with a main campus in Poughkeepsie, a town in the southeastern region of New York state that is 85 miles from New York city. The college is named for brewer and merchant Matthew Vassar. At first a women’s college, the institute has been co-educational since 1969.
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1 de jul. de 2021 · Carbon Neutrality. In 2016 Vassar committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2030, and we are proud to already be more than halfway to achieving that goal—reducing our carbon footprint from 30,550 metric tons (mTons) of greenhouse gas in 2005 to just 15,000 mTons in 2021. We continue to work towards our long-term target of sequestering more ...
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics. Jinchen (Monika) Hu received her BS in Computing Mathematics from City University of Hong Kong and her PhD in Statistics from Duke University, North Carolina. Her research interests lie in developing Bayesian statistical methodology for applied problems that intersect with the social sciences.
Vassar College has received a $156,000 grant from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation that will fund faculty-mentored research projects conducted by six students over the next three years. John Long, Professor of Biology and Cognitive Science on the John Guy Vassar Chair, was quoted in a Great Courses Daily story about Amazon’s new home robot, Astro.
