Dec. 13, 2017
In 2017, Vassar Cross Country had its best showing in the program’s history, finishing 8th in a 42-team field at the Atlantic Regional NCAA qualifying meet. Michael Scarlett ’18 capped his Vassar cross country career by earning a spot in the NCAA Division III championship race.
Dec. 8, 2017
Every year, dozens of Vassar students earn academic credit by venturing off-campus and working in public schools, businesses, community centers, hospitals, nonprofits, and government offices.
Dec. 7, 2017
VC++, Vassar’s computer programming club, runs a weekend mentoring program for Poughkeepsie high school students interested in learning how to code.
Dec. 5, 2017
Meet the Vassar Devils, one of nine a cappella groups on campus, as they get ready for their fall concert with their guests, the Nor’easters from Northeastern U.
Nov. 28, 2017
For the third straight year in a row and the fourth time in the last five years, the Vassar women’s rugby team will compete in the national championship tournament, the Final 4.
Nov. 16, 2017
Zoologist Alan Tousignant ’84 imparts the importance of conservation to high school students
Pete Malinowski ’06, Executive Director of the Billion Oyster Project, is reinvigorating the aquatic life in New York City’s waterways by reintroducing a keystone species—the oyster—into the East River and beyond, and he’s doing so with the help of students from the New York Harbor School.
History Prof. Rebecca Edwards is an expert on American political history, but she had never run for office before this year’s election. She and her and her team canvassed neighborhoods and ran an upbeat campaign on social media—and won a seat in the Dutchess County Legislature with 53 percent of the vote.
In “Star Wars: Resistance, Rebellion and Death,” first-year students analyze the Star Wars saga from a postcolonial perspective, investigating the nature of power and exploitation, authority and subjugation.
Nov. 15, 2017
Open to everyone from veteran outdoor enthusiasts to beginners, the Vassar Outing Club leads up to a dozen different adventures in the Hudson Valley in any given week and longer trips further afield during fall and spring breaks.
Nov. 14, 2017
Before she began her JYA in Madrid, Aviva Thal ’18 took a little hike—500 miles on the Camino de Santiago, beginning in the Pyrenees in France and walking across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela.
Nov. 8, 2017
Vassar teams wore pink socks, pink shoelaces, pink caps, and pink pre-game warm-up gear during Think Pink Week, a nationwide event established to raise awareness about breast cancer.
Nov. 7, 2017
2017 marks the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York State, and many notable Vassar alumnae were engaged in the struggle that brought that about.
Nov. 2, 2017
Vassar senior Michael Scarlett takes us on a tour of Vassar’s new dining center—aka “the Deece.”
Oct. 31, 2017
Re-united in a show for the first time since they acted together at Vassar, Ethan Slater ’14 and Lilli Cooper ’12 are headliners of the Broadway cast of SpongeBob SquarePants, a rollicking tribute to the beloved Nickelodeon character who has been entertaining millions of young fans since 1999.
Oct. 25, 2017
Members of the Vassar community can now get their bikes fixed at cost at the Vassar Bike Shop in the basement of Strong. The shop is back in business thanks to the enthusiastic support of the Office of Sustainability which aims to promote “bike culture” on campus.
Oct. 12, 2017
(T)ERROR, the documentary film by David Sutcliffe ’02 and Christopher St. John ’03, was one of four PBS Independent Lens films to receive the 2017 News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary.
Oct. 11, 2017
The emerald ash borer has arrived in Poughkeepsie, and two Vassar students are working with the city and the Vassar Environmental Cooperative to track the damage.
The latest video by singer and songwriter Julia Weldon ’05 was directed by a 17-year-old high school student—and the result is a heartbreaking song that sets the tone for a moving video drama about the complexity of high school love.
Working pretty much around-the-clock, Michael Quattrociocchi and Anthony Ripley led the team that completed the remarkable transformation of Vassar’s All Campus Dining Center on schedule and on budget.
