News and Events News & EventsAll NewsIn the MediaEventsPress ReleasesFeatured Videos Members of the Vassar community are always making news! Find the latest media mentions of alums, students, faculty, and other employees right here. In the Media In an opinion essay for the New York Times, New York City Planning Commissioner Leah Goodridge ’04 points out the impracticality of having only 1,000 public restrooms for the city’s 8.3 million residents. Sociology Professor Catherine Tan wrote a Time magazine op-ed titled “Why People Believe Trump and RFK Jr.’s Dangerous and Debunked Claims about Vaccines and Autism” Stellene Volandes ’93, Editor in Chief of Town & Country magazine, was lauded in a New York Times Business Section article for revitalizing the 178-year-old magazine. The Guggenheim Foundation paid tribute to the late Violet Barbour, a Vassar history professor who in 1925 became the first woman to receive a Guggenheim fellowship. Actor Ethan Slater ’14, who plays Boq in the new film Wicked, was the subject of a GQ article. The work of the late Professor Andrew Tallon was mentioned in a New York Times article on the restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral, following a devastating fire. Nancy Bisaha, Professor of History and Director of Medieval & Renaissance Studies, joins host Anthony Kaldellis on the Byzantium and Friends podcast to discuss the fall of Constantinople, Pope Pius II, and the birth of Europe. Good One, the debut feature by director India Donaldson ’07, was selected by New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson as one of the 10 best movies of the year. “Before the Storm,” a poem by Professor of English Amitava Kumar, is featured in Chronogram. View More Items
In an opinion essay for the New York Times, New York City Planning Commissioner Leah Goodridge ’04 points out the impracticality of having only 1,000 public restrooms for the city’s 8.3 million residents.
Sociology Professor Catherine Tan wrote a Time magazine op-ed titled “Why People Believe Trump and RFK Jr.’s Dangerous and Debunked Claims about Vaccines and Autism”
Stellene Volandes ’93, Editor in Chief of Town & Country magazine, was lauded in a New York Times Business Section article for revitalizing the 178-year-old magazine.
The Guggenheim Foundation paid tribute to the late Violet Barbour, a Vassar history professor who in 1925 became the first woman to receive a Guggenheim fellowship.
The work of the late Professor Andrew Tallon was mentioned in a New York Times article on the restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral, following a devastating fire.
Nancy Bisaha, Professor of History and Director of Medieval & Renaissance Studies, joins host Anthony Kaldellis on the Byzantium and Friends podcast to discuss the fall of Constantinople, Pope Pius II, and the birth of Europe.
Good One, the debut feature by director India Donaldson ’07, was selected by New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson as one of the 10 best movies of the year.
