Associate Professor of English Tracy O'Neill was honored with a 2025 Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in Writing. The Fellows are chosen through a competitive nomination and jury process for each discipline: visual arts, writing, and composing.
Abigail Schwartz, Class of 2027, was awarded an Undergraduate Research Grant by Psi Chi, The International Honor Society in Psychology, in support of her mentored research project on disordered eating behaviors among college students.
In the past two years, 16 Vassar students have earned Gilman Scholarships that allow talented American undergraduate students with high financial need to study or intern abroad for academic credit.
Vassar honored outstanding student-athletes at its Annual Athletic Awards Ceremony on May 6, bestowing upon seniors Sophia Bailey and Jared Fiske the Matthew Vassar Outstanding Career Award.
Nine members of the faculty in eight academic disciplines have been designated full professors. They were granted their promotions in February by the board. Their new titles will take effect on July 1.
Gathering around a communal table and later among the trees, Vassar celebrated Community Care Days with shared food, campus traditions, and gratitude for the 100-year-old Arboretum’s beauty and enduring place at the heart of campus life.
Teams of students from Vassar and Dutchess Community College (DCC) have represented dozens of countries at the annual National Model United Nations Conference in New York City. This year, four students from Vassar and seven from DCC earned an Honorable Mention, the third highest prize.
Bekir Hodzic ’26, whose family survived genocide in Bosnia, will spend a Watson Fellowship year studying how communities and nations remember mass violence.
During a campus conversation, John Cameron Mitchell shared stories from a boundary-breaking career and urged students to embrace generosity, independence, and fearless creativity.
