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As the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris reopens more than five years after a devastating fire, we look back on the contributions of Vassar Professor of Art and architectural historian Andrew Tallon to its restoration.

The Office of Community-Engaged Learning and Vassar Education Collaboration have greatly strengthened the College’s relationship with the surrounding area.

The Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts hosted EcoVisions, a three-day conference on community and global responses to climate change.

“Genius Award” winner Dr. Michelle Monje ’98 returned to her alma mater to deliver a lecture on her breakthroughs in cancer research.

Vassar welcomes 15 new tenure-track faculty members—the largest cohort in more than 20 years—to the campus this fall.

Vassar has made an ongoing effort to acknowledge the displacement of Native peoples from the land where the campus has been built and to build relationships with those Native nations today. The College recently hosted a visit by the Tribal Liaison from the Stockbridge-Munsee, whose ancestors were forcibly moved from the land.

Vassar greeted 165 first-generation and low-income first-year students at the weeklong FLI Foundations orientation program.

Five Vassar students traveled to Rwanda this summer for their first in-person learning experience with students at the University of Global Health Equity.