Stories

Feb. 21, 2020

Emmy Award-winning musician, author and philanthropist Peter Buffett and cellist Michael Kott will host an interactive performance, titled “A Concert and Conversation,” March 3 in the Villard Room.

Feb. 20, 2020

Vassar College has announced an agreement with its energy provider to purchase electricity generated solely by renewable sources.

Feb. 17, 2020

George Washington University Professor Nemata Blyden delivered a lecture at Taylor Hall February 6 on her new book, African Americans and Africa.

Feb. 14, 2020

The third annual Brewers Fund Challenge, Brew3D, begins at 9:00 am February 27, with some new twists that include a three-division system for team competition and prizes for the most creative team videos.

Feb. 10, 2020

Vassar College has been named a Top Producing Institution for Fulbright Fellowships for 2019-20, the U.S. State Department announced. Seven Vassar graduates were awarded Fulbright Fellowships for the current academic year and are currently studying or conducting research overseas.

Jan. 30, 2020

Andrea Roberts ’96, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Texas A & M University, is focusing her research and much of her teaching on the thousands of historically black settlements, often called “freedom colonies,” that sprung up in Texas and almost every other state in the nation following the Civil War.

Jan. 28, 2020

More than 150 members of the Vassar Community paid tribute to the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the college’s Second Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service Breakfast. In addition, three members of the Vassar community received the college’s 2020 MLK Service Awards.

Jan. 24, 2020

At Vassar’s sixth annual Sophomore Career Connections, held on the weekend of January 17, 248 sophomores gained invaluable insights from 103 alumnae/i and parents who spent the weekend helping them envision their futures. The event was co-hosted by the Career Development Office and the Office of Alumnae/i Affairs and Development.

Jan. 3, 2020

Sarah Kozloff, Professor of Film on the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair, spent the first 57 years of her life not considering herself creative and not writing novels. Less than seven years later, she’s written four of them.

Dec. 18, 2019

The Vassar community witnessed some remarkable events and achievements in 2019. Here are some of the highlights:

Dec. 17, 2019

Vassar students, faculty, administrators, and staff make the holiday season a little brighter for many in the community.

Dec. 13, 2019

Vassar alumna Diana Pearson ’78 has donated more than 80 manuscripts and other material from her late husband’s rare book and manuscript collection to Special Collections at Thompson Library. Some students in a medieval history class spent an hour viewing one of the manuscripts, and more students and scholars will benefit from the generous donation in the future.

Dec. 9, 2019

Nearly 150 students, administrators, faculty, staff and alumnae/i submitted photographs from all over the globe for Vassar’s 15^th annual International Photo Contest.

Dec. 4, 2019

More than 300 students and 130 alumnae/i gathered on the campus November 16 for Major Palooza, a day-long event in which Vassar grads shared information and advice on how they had parlayed their liberal arts education into rewarding careers.

Nov. 27, 2019

Rachel Price’s research into her family tree had confirmed that she was a descendant of Thomas Vassar, one of Matthew’s brothers. This year, she got to tick a visit to the college he founded off her bucket list. Now she wants to know more about her family tree.

Nov. 26, 2019

The Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement and Education hosted a series of events on the Vassar campus this fall focusing on the impact of barriers, both physical and psychological, on people coping with forced migration and family separation.

Nov. 21, 2019

Students in a first-year writing seminar learn how modern X-ray technology helps art historians study paintings that are more than five centuries old.

Nov. 18, 2019

Alumnae/i, students, faculty, staff, and community members gathered for the Larry H. Mamiya Memorial Conference Celebrating 50 Years of Africana Studies at Vassar College in early November. Several alumnae who participated in the three-day occupation of Main Building in 1969, widely credited for helping to secure support for the college’s new Black Studies program, were in attendance.

Nov. 14, 2019

A two-year-old student publication, Vassar Insider (formerly Vassar Political Review), has won two awards from the Associated College Press.

Nov. 5, 2019

The AAVC presented its annual Spirit of Vassar Award to dance educator Russell Baker ’91 and its Outstanding Faculty/Staff Award to Robert K. Brigham, Vassar’s Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations, at an October 18 awards dinner.