Many media outlets, including Variety, reported that Cassandra Kulukundis ’93 won the first-ever Oscar for Best Casting for her work on the film One Battle After Another.
Novelist Jane Smiley ’71 spoke to Alta about how her love of horses has been intertwined with her life as a writer.
NBC News and many other media outlets reported on a groundbreaking study of human brain development led by Dr. Alexa Mousley ’20.
PEN America announced that it will honor Blumhouse CEO Jason Blum ’91 in May 2026 with a Business Visionary award for “his daring and diverse films that have transformed horror from a niche genre into a driving force of contemporary culture, often with social issues at the core.”
David DeSteno ’90 wrote a guest essay for The New York Times about the limitations of using religion to teach the chatbot Claude about morality and ethics.
Lisa Kudrow ’85, currently starring in the third season of HBO’s The Comeback, was the subject of a lengthy profile in The New Yorker that mentioned her time as a biology major at Vassar.
People magazine profiled playwright Liza Powel O’Brien ’92 on the occasion of her spouse, Conan O’Brien, hosting the Academy Awards.
Author Torrey Maldonado ’96 spoke to Publisher’s Weekly about his debut picture book, Just Right.
Michele Tugade ’95, Professor of Psychological Science on the William R. Kenan Jr. Chair, wrote an article for Psychology Today about why the Lunar New Year transition to the Year of the Fire Horse is especially meaningful to her.
Carlos Eduardo Espina ’20, a political influencer with more than 14 million followers on TikTok, was the focus of a Houston Public Media story on efforts by Texas Democrats to reach Latino voters.
New Yorker Staff Writer Ruby Cramer ’12 appeared on The New Yorker Radio Hour to discuss the current situation in Minneapolis and her interview with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
The Times of India published an appreciation of poet Elizabeth Bishop ’34, mentioning the literary magazine she helped start at Vassar.
