Stories

Feb. 25, 2020

Professor of Physics Cindy Schwarz and Assistant Professor of Physics Juan Merlo-Ramirez are working on various initiatives, including writing children’s books in English and Spanish, to inspire Latinx children to learn about science.

Feb. 21, 2020

Emmy Award-winning musician, author and philanthropist Peter Buffett and cellist Michael Kott will host an interactive performance, titled “A Concert and Conversation,” March 3 in the Villard Room.

Feb. 10, 2020

Vassar College has been named a Top Producing Institution for Fulbright Fellowships for 2019-20, the U.S. State Department announced. Seven Vassar graduates were awarded Fulbright Fellowships for the current academic year and are currently studying or conducting research overseas.

Jan. 3, 2020

Sarah Kozloff, Professor of Film on the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair, spent the first 57 years of her life not considering herself creative and not writing novels. Less than seven years later, she’s written four of them.

Dec. 9, 2019

Nearly 150 students, administrators, faculty, staff and alumnae/i submitted photographs from all over the globe for Vassar’s 15^th annual International Photo Contest.

Dec. 4, 2019

More than 300 students and 130 alumnae/i gathered on the campus November 16 for Major Palooza, a day-long event in which Vassar grads shared information and advice on how they had parlayed their liberal arts education into rewarding careers.

Nov. 26, 2019

The Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement and Education hosted a series of events on the Vassar campus this fall focusing on the impact of barriers, both physical and psychological, on people coping with forced migration and family separation.

Nov. 21, 2019

Students in a first-year writing seminar learn how modern X-ray technology helps art historians study paintings that are more than five centuries old.

Nov. 18, 2019

Alumnae/i, students, faculty, staff, and community members gathered for the Larry H. Mamiya Memorial Conference Celebrating 50 Years of Africana Studies at Vassar College in early November. Several alumnae who participated in the three-day occupation of Main Building in 1969, widely credited for helping to secure support for the college’s new Black Studies program, were in attendance.

Nov. 5, 2019

The AAVC presented its annual Spirit of Vassar Award to dance educator Russell Baker ’91 and its Outstanding Faculty/Staff Award to Robert K. Brigham, Vassar’s Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations, at an October 18 awards dinner.

Oct. 30, 2019

Christopher Roellke, a faculty member and administrator at Vassar College for the past 21 years, has been named President of Stetson University. He assumes his new post July 1.

Oct. 25, 2019

Fourteen first-year students got a jump on their college careers this summer as members of the Summer Immersion in the Liberal Arts program sponsored by Vassar’s Engaged Pluralism Initiative (EPI). The young men and women, many of whom are the first in their families to attend college, spent four weeks on campus taking specially designed, credit-bearing courses, learning about resources the college offers, and taking part in service-based learning in the Poughkeepsie area.

Oct. 16, 2019

Sherrilyn Ifill ’84 and astronomy professor Debra Elmegreen are among the newest inductees to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Sep. 16, 2019

Vassar debuted an inaugural program in China this summer, partnering with a secondary school for gifted students in Beijing who took courses taught by Vassar faculty grounded in the college’s liberal arts model.

Sep. 13, 2019

Vassar College has forged a partnership with Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health that will enable Vassar students to earn a master’s degree in public health a year after they graduate from Vassar.

Sep. 12, 2019

During Vassar’s Fall Convocation ceremony, Lisa Collins, Professor of Art on the Sarah Gibson Blanding Chair and Professor of American and Africana Studies, gave the Convocation Address, and the Alumnae/i Association of Vassar College bestowed awards upon six distinguished alumnae/i.

Aug. 27, 2019

Learning that setbacks are an integral part of research, about 60 Vassar students took part in projects this summer on the auspices of the Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI) and Ford Scholars programs.

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. 17, 2019

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

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.