News and Events

Award-winning actor William H. Macy critiqued performances by several Vassar drama majors and offered some career advice during a three-hour master class recently in the Streep Studio in the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film.

Vassar Trustee Leslie Jackson Chihuly ’83 is giving the College’s $500 million fundraising campaign a kick start with a series of gifts totaling more than $2 million. They include an estate gift, a donation to the Health and Wellness Fund, annual gifts to the Vassar Fund, and a donation of several works created by her husband, renowned artist Dale Chihuly.

More than 150 members of the Vassar community gathered on the campus November 19 to pay tribute to the life and career of beloved architecture professor Jeh Vincent Johnson, who designed the Center—rededicating the gathering place in his name.

David Ambroz ’02 spent most of his childhood either homeless or in foster care. Now he’s working to combat homelessness and improve the foster care system.