Stories

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. 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.

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.

Nov. 16, 2017

Zoologist Alan Tousignant ’84 imparts the importance of conservation to high school students

Nov. 16, 2017

Pete Malinowski ’06, Executive Director of the Billion Oyster Project, is reinvigorating the aquatic life in New York City’s waterways by reintroducing a keystone species—the oyster—into the East River and beyond, and he’s doing so with the help of students from the New York Harbor School.

Oct. 31, 2017

Re-united in a show for the first time since they acted together at Vassar, Ethan Slater ’14 and Lilli Cooper ’12 are headliners of the Broadway cast of SpongeBob SquarePants, a rollicking tribute to the beloved Nickelodeon character who has been entertaining millions of young fans since 1999.

Oct. 12, 2017

Oct. 11, 2017

The latest video by singer and songwriter Julia Weldon ’05 was directed by a 17-year-old high school student—and the result is a heartbreaking song that sets the tone for a moving video drama about the complexity of high school love.

Oct. 2, 2017

Special Collections is nearing the end of a six-year project to catalogue more than 25,000 books, folios, and other items, providing a digital record of the full contents of the Archives and Special Collections that will be available to faculty, students, and researchers around the world.

Sep. 27, 2017

One year out of Vassar, Albin Pepe is the top editor at Flatbush Pictures, the film production company of Emmy award-winning director and producer Judd Ehrlich, Vassar class of ’93.

Sep. 27, 2017

Inspired by Associate Prof. of History Leslie Offutt to pursue a career in academia, Alberto Wilson III ’16 is pursuing a PhD in history at the University of Houston.

Sep. 26, 2017

Brooks English, who majored in psychology and was a co-captain of the baseball team for two years, works for Gelber Group, a proprietary trading firm based in Chicago. He trades principally in currencies but works with other commodities as well, and his day starts early.

Sep. 14, 2017

False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East by Middle East scholar Steven Cook ’90 looks back on the “Arab Spring” uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa and asks, “What did they really change?”

Sep. 12, 2017

President Elizabeth Bradley presided over Fall Convocation—her first—and advised students to savor this transformative time in their lives. The event included featured speaker Mia Mask, the Mary Riepma Ross ’32 Professor of Film, and AAVC award presentations to Marguerite O’Haire ’08, who received the Young Alumnae/i Achievement Award, and Frances Tarlton Farenthold ’46, P’75, who received the Distinguished Achievement Award.

Sep. 6, 2017

Shruti Swamy ’07 just received her second consecutive O. Henry Award—an annual prize for the 20 best short stories in the United States and Canada. With her most recent winning short story, “Night Garden,” under her belt, Swamy is now penning her first novel.

Aug. 18, 2017

The Vassar Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program has launched 16 careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education. Noyce scholars and mentors returned to campus in June to begin building an ongoing professional support system for the program’s alumnae/i.

Aug. 15, 2017

Via different routes and for different reasons, three alumnae/i find themselves engaged in a conservation cause at Canyon de Chelly National Monument, supporting a Student Conservation Association crew composed of Native American high school students.

Aug. 10, 2017

For Kelly Edwards ’85, Vice President of Talent Development and Programming at HBO, Goal One is to broaden the diversity in a variety of film and television roles—from executives to directors to writers.