Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

Pleistocene foraminifera assemblages as a proxy for temperature in the Weddell Sea, ODP Site 693A

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2015-January-01
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Climate conditions in the Weddell Sea during the Pleistocene can be inferred by examining the abundance of foraminifer species and mineral fragments in ocean sediment cores. In particular, Neogloboquadrina incompta is a useful temperature proxy, and the abundance of terrigenous...

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The Age of Alice: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Nonsense in Victorian England

Publication Date
2015-February
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A catalogue of the exhibition The Age of Alice: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Nonsense in Victorian England February 12 – June 17, 2015 Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library Vassar College.

Cover design by Nikolai Firtich Layout and typesetting by George...

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The Latina Body in Visual Culture: A Motion for Dance as a Medium

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2014-January-01
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This project calls for a re-thinking of how we consume the performance of choreographed dance in music videos in regards to the Latina body. By taking a look at the underlying mechanisms at work in the entertainment industry, this project...

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