This site is no longer being updated as of June 2021. For the latest news and stories, visit Vassar News.
Apr. 26, 2018
The Vassar Student Association (VSA) is commemorating its 150-year anniversary with events and a publication about the experiences of VSA presidents.
Apr. 24, 2018
In connection with National Volunteer Week and Earth Day, Vassar students, alumnae/i, administrators, faculty, staff, and others joined several cleanup projects in the City of Poughkeepsie.
Apr. 20, 2018
For Emma Glickman ’18, the first clues to the story of her family’s ordeal in Nazi-occupied Poland were the tiny bite marks she found on a gold locket her grandmother, Elizabeth Hoffman Glickman, had given her a few years before she died. Since then, the Vassar senior has begun to unravel the mystery further.
Apr. 19, 2018
Elizabeth Aeschlimann, Vassar’s Rachlin Director for Jewish Student Life, led 11 students through a half-semester, non-credit course on the use of Jewish ethical writing and practice to help them “align our actions with our values.”
Mar. 29, 2018
Vassar’s radio station, WVKR, provides a platform for music and political discussion that you just can’t hear anywhere else, say the DJs who bring programming to the campus and beyond day and night.
Mar. 12, 2018
Over the past 18 years, Vassar students, faculty and administrators have taken a day in February to reflect on ways to improve and enhance the campus community. The theme of this year’s All College Day, held Feb. 28, was “The Practice of Community.”
Vassar men’s volleyball player Matthew Knigge ’18, one of the most decorated student athletes in the college’s history, is one of 24 athletes across the country to be named to the NCAA Division III Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
Mar. 6, 2018
In February 2018, the AAVC Spirit of Vassar Award was presented to Jeffrey Brenner ’90, a medical professional who designed an innovative approach to meeting the medical and social service needs of vulnerable citizens in impoverished communities.
Mar. 1, 2018
In recognition of Women’s History Month, we are highlighting the achievements of some notable Vassar alumnae.
Feb. 28, 2018
Lynai Williams Jones ’92 thoroughly enjoyed her sales career at Reuters, marketing financial news, software, and databases to major Wall Street firms, but she found her true calling—interior design and décor—when she left Reuters to manage her family’s business, Williams Group Holdings.
Feb. 23, 2018
2018 Triennial will focus on the enduring contributions and presence of African Americans on campus and provide plenty of opportunities for networking and connection.
Feb. 16, 2018
Keith St. John ’81 appeared to have a life plan set by an early age—his formidable mother wanted him to be a doctor. Instead, St. John created his own path, which led him to become the first openly gay black elected official in the United States.
After four years of testing extra virgin olive oil from groves in Italy and California, Chemistry Prof. Miriam Rossi and an interdisciplinary team of Vassar researchers and Italian scientists have shown that this staple of Mediterranean cuisine has some remarkable health benefits.
Junior hitter Devan Gallagher is the first Vassar women’s volleyball player to earn a spot on the American Volleyball Coaches Association All-American Second Team and the sixth athlete in Vassar history to be named to the Academic All-American Team.
Two senior chemistry majors are investigating the structure of several plant-derived compounds to assess their antioxidant and anticancer properties.
Feb. 5, 2018
Twenty-three Vassar sophomores—a record number—are applying for admission to the dual degree program at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering. The successful candidates will spend their junior year at Thayer, return to Vassar to complete their bachelor’s, and then spend a fifth year at Thayer to earn a bachelor’s in engineering.
Feb. 2, 2018
The fourth annual Sophomore Career Connections brought 75 alumnae/i, parent, and guest mentors and 235 sophomores together for a weekend program of professional development and networking.
Feb. 1, 2018
The story of race at Vassar is long and abundant. For decades, black men and women have played increasingly important roles at Vassar, and as we celebrate Black History Month, we are highlighting the achievements of some of those students, faculty and alums.
A film about Anita Hemmings, class of 1897, will soon be on the big screen, thanks to co-producers Reese Witherspoon and Zendaya. The actress Zendaya will portray Hemmings in the biopic.
Jan. 25, 2018
A new exhibition at the New York Historical Society, Hotbed, celebrates the upcoming centennial of women’s suffrage and explores the movements and activism it spawned.