A participating faculty of more than 40 professors, representing almost every academic discipline, giving close supervision to student programs, senior projects, and field experience.
Vassar's 280-acre ecological preserve and its field station, built in 1995 for the study of natural history, ecology, botany, and geology.
The college's location in the Hudson River Valley, one of the world's great watersheds, and proximity to the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains.
Opportunities for urban ecology study in New York City, an hour-and-a-half from campus, and in association with local and regional organizations such as the Vassar-founded Poughkeepsie Institute.
Nearby ecological and environmental institutes such as the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook and the Daniel Smiley Research Center in the Mohonk Wilderness Preserve (only 40 minutes from Vassar), as well as the Hudson Valley's many conservation and preservation organizations, such as Clearwater, Inc., and Scenic Hudson.
Frequent lectures by nationally and internationally known environmental thinkers, working in a variety of different disciplines in the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts and humanities.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and its Magoon collection, a gift from the college's founder Matthew Vassar, which includes many Hudson River School landscape paintings illuminating the complex relationship between nature and culture in our historic region.
