The sky's the limit
When Debra Elmegreen, professor of astronomy, spotted Maria Mitchell’s telescope on an elementary school trip to the Smithsonian, she never imagined that one day she would teach on the same campus as the nation’s first female astronomer. After high school, Elmegreen blazed her own trail as a student at Princeton University, where she was the first woman to earn an undergraduate degree in astrophysics. more...
Star exhibition
What Vassar landmark object ranks up there with the Greensboro lunch counter from the civil rights era, Clara Barton’s ambulance, Disney’s Dumbo the elephant ride car, and Horatio Greenough’s statue of George Washington? Maria Mitchell’s telescope, of course. more...
RoboChampion
After battling it out to win two campus robot competitions when he was a student, research associate Josh de Leeuw ’08 recently took his game to an international level, placing second in the worldwide programming competition, RoboChamps Urban Challenge, sponsored by KIA Motors and Microsoft. more...
