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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.

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[Exhibition] W.K. Rose and the Rose Fellowship

Publication Date
2024-March-22
Authors
Johnson, Colton
Department or Program
Vassar College Libraries
History Department
Document Type
Archived Website
Access Level
Open
Abstract

Overview by Colton Johnson, Vassar College Historian, Dean Emeritus of the College and Professor Emeritus of English. Includes video interviews of Rose Fellowship Recipients. Physical exhibition was on view in the Vassar College Thompson Library August-May 2013. Catherine Pelton Durrell...

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How to Make it Rain: A Practical Analysis of Storytelling Forms

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Singer, Mira
Department or Program
Independent Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

The following is an experiment in practical analysis of storytelling media. The project seeks to explore what insights can be gained about media specificity and adaptation theory
through the process of constructing a story and adapting it into background notes...

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Testing biological hypotheses with embodied robots: adaptations, accidents, and by-products in the evolution of vertebrates

Publication Date
2014-November-12
Document Type
article
Authors
Roberts, Sonia F.
Hirokawa, Jonathan
Rosenblum, Hannah G.
Sakhtah, Hassan
Gutierrez, Andres A.
Porter, Marianne E.
Long, John H., Jr.
Department or Program
Biology Department
Cognitive Science Department
Document Type
Article
Abstract

Evolutionary robotics allows biologists to test hypotheses about extinct animals. In our case, we modeled some of the first vertebrates, jawless fishes, in order to study the evolution of the trait after which vertebrates are named: vertebrae. …

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Vincent and Vassar

Publication Date
2019-May
Authors
Streett, Laura
Johnson, Colton
Lieb, Gretchen
Department or Program
Vassar College Libraries
Document Type
Exhibition Catalog
Access Level
Open
Abstract

Vincent and Vassar Was organized by the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library and the Millay Society Board.

Layout and typography by George Laws, and print production oversight by Daniel Lasecki at Vassar’s Office of Publications. 500 copies were...

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