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“Seeing and Being Seen”

Organized in collaboration with the LGBTQ+ Center and a committee of current Vassar students, the Loeb is featuring “Seeing and Being Seen”—a photo exhibition honoring the inaugural celebration of Vassar Pride—running until August 28. View the video

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Award-Winning TV/Film Producer Jason Blum ’91 Donates $10M to Vassar. Jason Blum, founder and CEO of Blumhouse, the company behind such films as Whiplash, Get Out, and BlacKkKlansman, will make a $10 million gift to Vassar College to supplement the College’s financial aid funds. Read more
Photo: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons

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Vassar Joins 32 Peer Institutions in Filing an Amicus Brief with U.S. Supreme Court in Support of the Harvard and University of North Carolina Affirmative Action Cases

Submitted by jabailey on Mon, 08/08/2022 - 10:51

Vassar Joins 32 Peer Institutions in Filing an Amicus Brief with U.S. Supreme Court in Support of the Harvard/UNC Affirmative Action Cases

Student Becomes Art Curator as a Ford Scholar

Submitted by jabailey on Mon, 08/08/2022 - 14:30

John Murphy, the Loeb’s curator of prints and drawings, and Ford Scholar Carissa Kolcun pose with 11033, an artist’s book that chronicles the story of Mary Morst, who gave birth to twins while she was incarcerated in a Virginia prison in 1913.

Student Becomes Art Curator as a Ford Scholar

New Grant Program Funds Student Medical Research Projects

Submitted by eprunier on Fri, 08/05/2022 - 11:23

Sufana Noorwez ’24, one of Vassar’s first Beckman Scholars, launched her 14-month research project this summer in a lab in Olmsted Hall.

New Grant Program Funds Student Medical Research Projects

Vassar Community Fellows Lend a Hand to Strengthen Local Programs

Submitted by eprunier on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 13:01

Hailey Osika ’23 tended gardens at the Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Sites.

Vassar Community Fellows Lend a Hand to Strengthen Local Programs

Students Rise to the Grand Challenge of Equalizing STEM Education

Submitted by eprunier on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 14:10

Vassar Grand Challenges Co-Director Tom Pacio (center) leads a discussion with student and faculty at Elevating the Student Voice, a three-day symposium that explored ways to making STEM curricula more inclusive. At left: Professor of Biology Jodi Schwarz, former Grand Challenges Faculty Director. At right: Associate professor of Biology Jose Perillán, current Faculty Director.

Students Rise to the Grand Challenge of Equalizing STEM Education

Vassar Everywhere

Ms. magazine paid tribute to the late Urvashi Vaid ’79, “the Queer Movement’s Legendary Firebrand.”

Submitted by kschaye on Wed, 08/17/2022 - 10:57

Ms. magazine paid tribute to the late Urvashi Vaid ’79, “the Queer Movement’s Legendary Firebrand.”

Blumhouse CEO and founder Jason Blum ’91 talks to Deadline in advance of receiving the Locarno Film Festival’s Premio Raimondo Rezzonico award for Best Independent Producer.

Submitted by kschaye on Mon, 08/08/2022 - 09:09

Blumhouse CEO and founder Jason Blum ’91 talks to Deadline in advance of receiving the Locarno Film Festival’s Premio Raimondo Rezzonico award for Best Independent Producer.

The DC Comics character Mary Marvel is headed to Vassar, as noted by the Poughkeepsie Journal.

Submitted by eprunier on Fri, 08/05/2022 - 10:58

The DC Comics character Mary Marvel is headed to Vassar, as noted by the Poughkeepsie Journal.

In a Washington Post op-ed, American University Professor Leonard Steinhorn ’77 describes “The Fundamental Flaw in ‘Make America Great Again.’”

Submitted by kschaye on Wed, 07/27/2022 - 09:44

In a Washington Post op-ed, American University Professor Leonard Steinhorn ’77 describes “The Fundamental Flaw in ‘Make America Great Again.’”

Mia Mask, Professor of Film on the Mary Riepma Ross ’32 chair, is featured in the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema pre-show video A Brief Intro to Black Westerns, now playing with the Jordan Peele film Nope in 39 theaters nationwide.

Submitted by kschaye on Mon, 07/25/2022 - 13:29

Mia Mask, Professor of Film on the Mary Riepma Ross ’32 chair, is featured in the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema pre-show video A Brief Intro to Black Westerns, now playing with the Jordan Peele film Nope in 39 theaters nationwide.

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Choose from 48 departments and programs, 50 majors, plus the Independent Program (interdisciplinary “design your own” major).

The Vassar faculty is a diverse community of scholars, artists, writers, scientists, musicians, and thinkers. Learn more about the faculty and their teaching and research interests.

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Students: 2500
Faculty: 355
Student:Faculty: 8:1
Average AID Award: $54K
Majors: 51
Varsity Teams: 27

These figures are for the 2021/22 academic year.

Alumni

Beth Appel ’05, a writer for the HBO Max Series The Sex Lives of College Girls, reflects on writing for the show and filming on location right here at her alma mater. Here, she's shown in her old residence hall, Lathrop. Read more

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The film Luzzu by writer-director Alex Camilleri ’10 was a standout at Sundance, where it recently won a Jury Award. The story follows a Maltese fisherman forced to choose between tradition and fast money. Read more

Photo courtesy of Memento Films International

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Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jon Fisher ’94, is a self-described “ideas guy” who founded his first tech company before he had even graduated. Read more
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Sherrilyn Ifill ’84 Selected for 2021 TIME100 List of Most Influential People. Time magazine lauded Ifill, Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, as “a dazzling intellectual with an uncommon ability to analyze and frame the urgent civil rights issues facing our nation.” Read more

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Bobby Kinne ’18 carved a path from Vassar to Major League Baseball with help from a fellow alum. Read more

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There are over 1,000 campus-wide events annually. You will find arts-related events sponsored by the departments of Art, Music, Dance, Drama, and Film; exhibitions and events at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, the Palmer Gallery, and the Archives and Special Collections Library.

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Vassar Joins 32 Peer Institutions in Filing an Amicus Brief with U.S. Supreme Court in Support of the Harvard and University of North Carolina Affirmative Action Cases

Vassar Joins 32 Peer Institutions in Filing an Amicus Brief with U.S. Supreme Court in Support of the Harvard/UNC Affirmative Action Cases

Student Becomes Art Curator as a Ford Scholar

Student Becomes Art Curator as a Ford Scholar

New Grant Program Funds Student Medical Research Projects

New Grant Program Funds Student Medical Research Projects

Vassar Community Fellows Lend a Hand to Strengthen Local Programs

Vassar Community Fellows Lend a Hand to Strengthen Local Programs

Students Rise to the Grand Challenge of Equalizing STEM Education

Students Rise to the Grand Challenge of Equalizing STEM Education

Vassar Everywhere

<em>Ms.</em> magazine paid tribute to the late Urvashi Vaid ’79, “the Queer Movement’s Legendary Firebrand.”

Blumhouse CEO and founder Jason Blum ’91 talks to <em>Deadline</em> in advance of receiving the Locarno Film Festival’s Premio Raimondo Rezzonico award for Best Independent Producer.

The DC Comics character Mary Marvel is headed to Vassar, as noted by the <em>Poughkeepsie Journal</em>.

In a <em>Washington Post</em> op-ed, American University Professor Leonard Steinhorn ’77 describes “The Fundamental Flaw in ‘Make America Great Again.’”

Mia Mask, Professor of Film on the Mary Riepma Ross ’32 chair, is featured in the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema pre-show video <em>A Brief Intro to Black Westerns</em>, now playing with the Jordan Peele film <em>Nope</em> in 39 theaters nationwide.

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