- Fellowships and Pre-Health Advising

W.K. Rose Fellowship Awarded to Nathaniel Allister ’10

Nathaniel was a Film Major at Vassar, with a correlate in English: Creative Writing. After graduation, he discovered that his passion was for theater, whereupon he founded the Fox and Beggar Theater, garnering acclaim for presenting work that combined drama, music, puppetry, circus, and dance. What impressed our fellowship committee was the breadth of his imagination, the extent of his ingenuity, and the depth of his commitment to bringing theater to underserved communities.

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NSF FastLane Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Awards

National Science Foundation has announced the 2020 awards and honorable mentions. FastLane Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards have been offered to four Vassar alumnae/i, and eight have received honorable mention; one HM goes to a graduating senior. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.

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Fulbright Grants

Fulbright Grants Offered to Mendel Jiminez '20, Samuel O'Keefe '20 and Sarah Rivers '20 The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.

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Maimuna Touray and Kai Greenlees receive the Watson Fellowship

Awarded to Maimuna Touray and Kai Greenless. The Watson is a rare window of time after college and pre-career to engage your deepest interest on a global scale. Fellows conceive original projects, execute them outside of the United States for one year and embrace the ensuing journey. They decide where to go, who to meet and when to change course.

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100 Projects for Peace Awarded to Lauryn Onyore '23

Lauryn will be working in her home Ogada, a small Kenyan rural village which straddles the border between two of Kenya’s less-populated counties to bring 13 toilets to public locations in Ogada and to educate the youth and community members about the adverse effects of human pollution.

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