Vassar College
(Poughkeepsie, NY)
Vassar is a private, liberal arts college. Founded for women in 1861, it adopted coeducation in 1969. Its 1,000-acre campus is located on the outskirts of Poughkeepsie, 75 miles north of New York City. It includes a range of architecture from Gothic to modernist.
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According to the Vassar College Encyclopedia, as far back as 1889, daisies picked from the field where the residential quad now stands were used to decorate the chapel for Class Day. Watch this video to see how this commencement tradition has evolved from the 1930s to the present.
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A brief clip from "Life at Vassar 1943" of two students and a professor doing a psychology experiment
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A brief clip from "Life at Vassar 1943" of a geology student surveying Sunset Lake
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A brief clip from "Life at Vassar 1943" of two students and a professor doing a physics experiment
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A brief clip from "Life at Vassar 1943" of students gathering samples from the Casperkill and then examining them under a microscope
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A brief clip from "Life at Vassar 1943" of students in the chemistry lab
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A brief clip from "Life at Vassar 1943" of students and a professor working in the plant science lab
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The Hudson River Group (HRG), a joint delegation of Dutchess Community College and Vassar College, represented Italy at this years Model United Nations simulation in New York City and earned an Honorable Delegation designation as well as recognition for the excellence of their position papers.
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Biology professor John Long discusses using robotic fish to learn about evolution, other work that is being done using biorobotics, trends in the larger industry and implications for the future in a video cast today from 3:30-5:00pm.
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