2026 marks the 40th anniversary of Vassar’s Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI) and was the largest in the program’s history, with over 120 students and faculty working to create a scholarly, scientific community. Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our talented faculty and students at this, the 40th annual URSI Symposium.

Campus community only, please.

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the film’s release, the Film Department is hosting a screening of Vassar’s own Associate Professor of Film, Denise Iris’s Minor Visions (2001), followed by a conversation with Iris Charles H. Arndt, Associate Professor of Russian Studies, and Andreea Drogeanu, Tribeca Film Festival Programmer.

This event is free and open to the public.

Writer, essayist, translator, and editor Eliot Weinberger delivers the Elizabeth Bishop Poetry Lecture.

This event is free and open to the public.

Join us at the Olmsted Greenhouse for a calm doodling session with Vassar’s Counseling Center! No artistic skills necessary—we are just doodling for fun and to calm the mind. All ages welcome.

This event is free and open to the public.

Professor Mary McLeod examines women designers’ influence on European modern architecture between the World Wars.

This event is free and open to the public.

Lisa Tetrault, Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, will deliver the C. Mildred Thompson Lecture. The event will include a special message for retiring Professor Rebecca Edwards.

Vassar welcomes family members back to campus for a weekend of panels, performances, outdoor fun, art events, and lots more!

Celebrate the 2026 Summer Community Fellows and their community partners.

This event is free and open to the public.