@CrewDad, that’s right, one Physics Apker Award in 1994’ and 4 other finalists since then. As you noted, only a handful of LAC’s have won the award since it began in 1978’. That added to a Nobel Prize in science isn’t too shabby for a small LAC…
Agree, that it’s great to see Vassar catching up to others with its new 80,000 SF science building and renovation to existing 75,000 SF building. With the 200,000 SF Taylor Science Center at Hamilton and the 225,000 SF McCardell Bicentennial Hall at Middlebury, they needed to catch up.