Stories

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.

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. 22, 2019

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.

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

“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.

Mar. 28, 2019

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.