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.
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.
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.
Julie Morel ’19 plans to become a midwife. But before she begins her three years of formal training, she’ll travel the world examining the roles that culture, religion, spirituality and family play in maternity care in four diverse nations.
“Quiet as It’s Kept: Passing Subjects, Contested Identities,” a scholarly conference on “passing,” held April 5-7 on the Vassar College campus, advanced the dialog about racial, ethnic, and gender identity in substantial ways.
What can you do with a liberal arts education? At the new career program Major Palooza, mentors in a wide array of fields showed that the outcomes are unlimited.
Mar. 28, 2019
T. Barton Thurber, Associate Director for Collections and Exhibitions at the Princeton University Art Museum, has been named Anne Hendricks Bass Director of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and Lecturer of Art at Vassar College.
Students in a Medieval and Renaissance Studies Class spent a morning hurling balls of clay at a kiddie pool, learning the workings of a medieval weapon, a trebuchet.
Mar. 25, 2019
Professor of Psychological Science Debra Zeifman talks about her appointment as Dean of Studies.
Mar. 8, 2019
In recognition of Women’s History Month, we are highlighting the achievements of some notable Vassar alumnae and faculty.
They were recruited from women’s colleges like Vassar, from Maine to California, to work on a project so secret, most didn’t speak about it until 50 years after the fact. They were the women who helped win WWII—breaking enemy codes for the U.S. Army and Navy.
Vassar College to launch a summer program for gifted high school students in Beijing, China, in partnership with a Beijing-based education organization. Three faculty members will teach courses there this summer.
