Stories

Jun. 5, 2019

Van Jones, host of The Redemption Project and The Van Jones Show on CNN, delivered a stirring and inspiring address at Vassar’s 155^th Commencement ceremony May 26 at the college’s outdoor amphitheater.

May. 28, 2019

Lavetta Cooks has been more than an on-call security officer to many students of color. She’s also been an on-campus ‘mom.’

May. 26, 2019

CNN host and criminal justice advocate Van Jones delivered the Commencement address on May 26 at Vassar’s 155^th graduation ceremony.

May. 24, 2019

Savannah Smith ’19, Nicholas Gedigk ’19 and five recent alums will teach or do research in a total of six countries on three continents as recipients of 2019 Fulbright Scholarships.

May. 20, 2019

Thanks to a Time Out grant, Eve Madalengoitia ’86 will spend the next 12 months composing music, a lifelong passion that she never had an opportunity to pursue full time.

May. 17, 2019

Vassar’s 14th annual robotics competition featured a modified version of Harry Potter’s favorite game, Quidditch.

May. 16, 2019

Emily Janoski ’20 and three of her friends recently spent an entire weekend crunching data about the Canadian Rugby 7s Senior Women’s Team—and they weren’t alone in this curious pursuit. At DataFest, an annual event for statistics and data science aficionados in colleges around the country, about 60 Vassar students and more than 2,000 others analyzed the same information.

May. 8, 2019

Dozens of alumnae/i and other friends and supporters of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center returned to the Vassar campus on April 26 and 27 to pay tribute to James Mundy, the man who transformed the museum into a national treasure.

May. 3, 2019

Nancy Sherman, Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, delivered a lecture on the Vassar campus on the application of Stoicism in addressing moral issues facing modern-day soldiers.

May. 2, 2019

Vassar students, faculty and administrators celebrated their year-long collaboration with local agencies that are making the community a better place.

Apr. 30, 2019

Sonya K. Smith, Director of Graduate Admissions at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, has been named Vassar’s new Dean of Admission, and Student Financial Services, President Elizabeth Bradley announced.

Apr. 25, 2019

Parker Zimmerman ’19 and Emily McDaniels ’18 are the first Vassar student and recent grad to take advantage of a partnership between Vassar and Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law that ensured a generous scholarship as well as mentoring services by law school professors and administrators, some of whom are Vassar grads themselves.

Apr. 24, 2019

Winners of Emmy, Grammy, and Tony awards—and even a Pulitzer Prize, head the lineup of plays and readings at this summer’s Powerhouse Theater, sponsored by Vassar and New York Stage and Film.

Apr. 22, 2019

Nora Zaki brings an ecumenical background to her new role as Vassar’s Advisor for Muslim Student Life.

Apr. 22, 2019

Debra Elmegreen, Professor of Astronomy on the Maria Mitchell Chair, has been elected to the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, Martin Luther King Jr.—and Maria Mitchell herself.

Apr. 22, 2019

More than 100 years since it was built, Vassar’s Shakespeare Garden is getting a much-needed refresher. The work is being spearheaded by renowned landscape architect Ed Hollander ’76 and funded by a member of the class of 1969.

Apr. 18, 2019

Vassar’s Russian Studies students have always scored high in the New York State Competition of Spoken and Written Russian. This year was no exception.

Apr. 17, 2019

In media reports on the tragic fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, experts around the world noted the role the work of the late Vassar Associate Professor of Art Andrew Tallon may play in its restoration.

Apr. 12, 2019

Vassar College and the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), an innovative medical school in Rwanda, have forged a partnership that will help the medical school blend the liberal arts into its curriculum.

Apr. 5, 2019

Dana McRae ’22 first met Emmett O’Malley at Accepted Students Day five months before he enrolled at Vassar. Since then, the two have become good friends.