Stories

Jun. 8, 2019

Gerry Laybourne ’69, P’93, a Vassar trustee and former President of the Alumnae/i Association of Vassar College, received the AAVC’s Outstanding Service to Vassar College Award for her exceptional contributions to Vassar.

Jun. 8, 2019

Reunion 2019 was full of many highlights, including a record-setting class gift of $16.3 million from the class of 1969, six class attendance records, and absolutely gorgeous weather.

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.

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. 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. 5, 2019

“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.

Apr. 5, 2019

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. 8, 2019

In recognition of Women’s History Month, we are highlighting the achievements of some notable Vassar alumnae and faculty.

Mar. 8, 2019

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.

Feb. 28, 2019

AAVC Spirit of Vassar Awardee Sherrilyn Ifill ’84, head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, warns of threats to democracy.

Feb. 14, 2019

David O’Leary ’02 has long been fascinated by stories about UFOs and other unexplained phenomena. Now, he’s parlayed his passion for the unknown into a new series for the History Channel called Project Blue Book, about a U.S. Air Force project that investigated reports of UFO sightings and related phenomena in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Jan. 31, 2019

Last year, the Brewers athletes, alumnae/i, and fans raised $190,284 in 27 hours in support of our 27 teams. We hope to reach even greater heights this year! On Thursday, February 7, Vassar will host another 27-hour fund raising challenge #27Brew2. Go Brewers!

Jan. 31, 2019

Shona Tucker, Associate Professor and Chair of the Drama Department, tells us what it’s like to be in the hottest show on Broadway—To Kill a Mockingbird. But Tucker is not the sole member of the cast who is part of the Vassar community.

Jan. 30, 2019

For decades, black men and women have played important roles at Vassar and beyond. As we celebrate Black History Month, we are highlighting some of those achievements and milestones, as well as some events that will take place on campus in February.

Jan. 30, 2019

More than 230 students and over 90 mentors from a wide array of fields gathered on campus to network and share information at the fifth annual Sophomore Career Connections, hosted by the Career Development Office and the Office of Alumnae/i Affairs and Development in January.

Jan. 15, 2019

Vassar connections—and the campus location—help a UCLA film student advance

Nov. 7, 2018

Nearly a century after Vassar students and alumnae raised money for a new auditorium in a lecture hall at Tokyo Women’s Christian University, the two schools rekindled their bonds at a meeting recently on the Vassar campus.

Oct. 25, 2018

Thanks to the generosity of Ellen Rubin Gordon ’52, her family, and the Cele H. and William B. Rubin Family Fund, Vassar’s All Campus Dining Center has a new name. In a ceremony Oct. 25 in the foyer of the Students’ Building, the dining center was officially designated Gordon Commons.