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Professor of Religion Marc Epstein to create Passover Haggadah with students in “intensives” course

Posted 3/19/2019

Illuminating the Book of Esther. Creating a new kind of Megillah—using the historic Birds’ Head Haggadah as inspiration.

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Women’s History

Posted 3/14/2019

In recognition of Women’s History Month, we are highlighting the achievements of some notable Vassar alumnae and faculty.

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Poetry reading by prominent Equatoguinean writer, poet, and blogger, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, whose work confronts the effects of colonialism and his ambivalent post-colonial condition as an African-European intellectual. (4/02)

Posted 3/13/2019

On April 2nd at 3pm in Taylor Hall Room 203, Equatoguinean writer, poet, and blogger Juan Tomas Ávila Laurel will be delivering a poetry reading.

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Vassar to Collaborate on Summer Program for Gifted Students in China

Posted 3/11/2019

Vassar has formed a partnership with a school for gifted students in China, and three faculty members will kick off the alliance by teaching courses there this summer.

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Cracking the Codes: Vassar Alumnae Deciphered WWII Enemy Communications

Posted 3/8/2019

They were recruited from women’s colleges like Vassar, from Maine to California, to work on a project so secret, most didn’t speak about it until 50 years after the fact. They were the women who helped win WWII—breaking enemy codes for the U.S. Army and Navy.

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Gerard Stropnicky, theatre-maker and community organizer, will share his experiences and expertise surrounding community dialogue. (3/27)

Posted 3/7/2019

On March 27th at 6:00 p.m. in the Villard Room, Gerard Stropnicky will host the workshop, “Civic Empathy: A Field Report.” In our time, when 280-character insults and snarky memes pass for conversation, is Civic Empathy possible?

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An Era of Opportunity: Three Decades of Acquisitions opens at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center April 26, 2019

Posted 3/7/2019

The exhibition is a tribute to James Mundy (Vassar, class of 1974) upon his retirement after 28 years as the Anne Hendricks Bass Director of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, and will open with a lecture on Friday, April 26, in Taylor Hall 102 at 5:30 p.m., followed by a reception in the Atrium of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at 6:30 p.m.

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Urban Education Initiative Celebrates 15 Years of Community Partnerships

Posted 3/7/2019

Students, educators and supporters of Vassar’s Urban Education Initiative gathered with Poughkeepsie school officials and staff at the Alumnae/i House March 1 to celebrate UEI’s 15th anniversary.

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Suzanne Weekes, WPI, presents, “Lean Out: Connecting Outside the Ivory Tower,” (3/27) and a technical lecture, “A Multi-compartment Mathematical Model of Cancer Stem Cell Driven Solid Tumor Growth Dynamics.” (3/28)

Posted 3/6/2019

Professor of Mathematical Sciences Suzanne Weekes will give a lecture entitled, “Lean Out: Connecting Outside the Ivory Tower,” on March 27, in Rockefeller Hall, 300, at 5:00pm. The technical lecture, “A Multi-compartment Mathematical Model of Cancer Stem Cell Driven Solid Tumor Growth Dynamics,” will be on March 28 in Rockefeller Hall, 300, at 3:00pm.

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Writer, novelist, and professor Jamaica Kincaid tempers the boundary between poetry and prose. (4/11)

Posted 3/6/2019

On April 11th at 8:00 p.m. in the Villard Room, Jamaica Kincaid will deliver “Landscapes and Memories.” She skillfully and elegantly tempers the boundary between poetry and prose. Through her books and novels including Annie John, Lucy, At the Bottom of the River and A Small Place, she has carved out a unique and cherished place in the American literary landscape.

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Jonathan Schorsch to discuss,“Exploring a 1658 Sephardic Settlement Venture to the Dutch ‘Wild Coast’: Identity, Colonization, Decolonialism and Messianism.” (3/27)

Posted 3/6/2019

This lecture, which has been made possible by the Gomez Mill House Foundation, which named Prof. Schorsch the 2018–19 Gomez Mill House Scholar, will begin on March 27 at 6:30pm in New England Building, room 105.

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Dr. Peter Galison is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics at Harvard University will be delivering the Pauline Newman '47 Distinguished Lecture in Science, Technology, and Society. (4/04)

Posted 3/6/2019

On April 4th at 5:00 p.m. in Sanders Classroom 212, Spitzer Auditorium, Dr. Peter Galison, will be delivering the Pauline Newman ’47 Distinguished Lecture, on "Black Holes, Black Boxes, and the Objective Image".

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Annelise Orleck, Professor of History at Dartmouth College, will be speaking on her latest book, We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages (2018) (4/10)

Posted 3/6/2019

On April 10th at 5:30 p.m. in Taylor Hall Room 203, Annelise Orleck of Dartmouth College will be delivering the C. Mildred Thompson Lecture, talking on her latest book, We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages (2018).

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Scott Manning Stevens considers the complex relationship between three contemporary Haudenosaunee artists and our people’s long history. (4/11)

Posted 3/6/2019

Dr. Stevens of Syracuse University is the 2019 Belle Ribicoff Distinguished Guest Lecturer in Art. His talk, “The Arc of History in Contemporary Haudenosaunee Art,” will begin Thursday, April 11 at 5:30pm in Taylor Hall, room 203.

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A Q&A with newly appointed Dean of the College Carlos Alamo-Pastrana

Posted 3/5/2019

Last month, President Elizabeth Bradley announced that Carlos Alamo-Pastrana, who was appointed Interim Dean of the College last summer, had been named to the position permanently following a nationwide search.

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Spirit of Vassar Awardee: Civil Rights Icon Sherrilyn Ifill ’84

Posted 3/2/2019

AAVC Spirit of Vassar Awardee Sherrilyn Ifill ’84, head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, warns of threats to democracy.

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The Environmental Studies Senior Seminar presents a four day Environmental Film Festival beginning April 4

Posted 3/1/2019

Sponsored by the Department of Environmental Studies, the festival takes place Thursday, April 4–Sunday, April 7. All events take place in Rockefeller Hall, 200.

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Vassar Takes On SUNY Geneseo In NCAA Tournament

Posted 3/1/2019

After receiving an at-large bid, the Vassar women’s basketball team (21-6) will head to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time in program history. The Brewers’ first-round game against SUNY Geneseo gets underway at 5 p.m. on Friday from Amherst College’s LeFrak Gymnasium.

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Jesse Ecklund Selected For NCAA Championships

Posted 2/28/2019

Jesse Ecklund ’22 (Missoula, MT) of the Vassar College women’s swimming & diving team becomes the first Brewer selected for the NCAA Championships since Julia Cunningham in 2016.

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David B. Woolner will discuss his recently published book, The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace (4/18)

Posted 2/22/2019

The first hundred days of FDR’s presidency are justly famous, often viewed as a period of political action without equal in American history. Yet as historian David B. Woolner reveals, the last hundred might very well surpass them in drama and consequence.

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Vassar Conference and Exhibition to Explore ‘Passing’: Exhibit Opens at Loeb Feb. 28

Posted 2/21/2019

As attention is drawn to Vassar’s “scandal” in 1897, two Vassar faculty members have decided it’s time to take a scholarly look at ‘passing.’

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Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA, presents “Mathematics of Crime,” and “Geometric Graph-based Methods for High Dimensional Data.” (3/25 and 3/26)

Posted 2/19/2019

On March 25th at 5pm in Rockefeller Hall 300, Professor Bertozzi will discuss the fascinating story behind her participation on the UCLA team that developed a "predictive policing" computer program that zeros-in on areas that have the highest probability of crime, now used in over fifty cities worldwide, in her lecture “Mathematics of Crime” as part of the 2019 Asprey Distinguished Lecture Series in Mathematics.

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Odilia Romero will deliver her lecture, “Indigenous Immigrants in a Time of Intolerance,” Wednesday, April 24, 2019.

Posted 2/14/2019

Ms. Romero outlines how activists can address the needs of Indigenous immigrants in the US—a constituency often neglected by state institutions in the US, Mexico, and Guatemala.

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Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center offers series of art-themed story hours for children ages 3-5.

Posted 2/14/2019

“Storytime at the Museum” is taking place on February 15, March 29, and May 3, at 2pm in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Each month has a different theme.

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The Vassar Haiti Project's Art & Soul Gala honors Robert Morgenthau and Lucinda Franks. (4/25)

Posted 2/14/2019

On April 25 from 5:30–8pm in the Vassar College Alumnae House (161 College Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY), the Vassar Haiti Project will honor Robert M. Morgenthau and Lucinda Franks for their extraordinary achievements in the fields of international social justice and literature.

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In Search of the Unknown: David O’Leary ’02 and His Star-Studded UFO Series

Posted 2/14/2019

David O’Leary ’02 has long been fascinated by stories about UFOs and other unexplained phenomena. Now, he’s parlayed his passion for the unknown into a new series for the History Channel called Project Blue Book, about a U.S. Air Force project that investigated reports of UFO sightings and related phenomena in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Professor Ben Vinson III will deliver “Reflections on Afro-Mexico: Comments from the Career of an Historian.” (3/25)

Posted 2/7/2019

On March 25th at 5:30pm in Taylor Hall 203, Professor Ben Vinson III will deliver the Charles C. Griffin Memorial Lecture, “Reflections on Afro-Mexico: Comments from the Career of an Historian.”

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This years Frederic C. Wood lecture will be given by Yale scholars Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim will come to Vassar to discuss their award winning film Journey of the Universe. (3/28)

Posted 2/7/2019

On March 28th at 5:00PM in Taylor Hall 203, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim will deliver the Frederic C. Wood Lecture, “Religion, Ecology and the ‘Journey of the Universe.’”

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Miss Black America Performance Inspired by Northern Migration

Posted 2/7/2019

The migration of millions of African American families from the Deep South to northern cities in the first half of the 20th century is one of the most significant, and largely untold, stories of American history. On Saturday, February 16, harpist and Adjunct Artist in Music Ashley Jackson will relate this story, through music and the spoken word, in the performance Miss Black America.

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Ready. Set. Go!

Posted 2/1/2019

Last year, the Brewers athletes, alumnae/i, and fans raised $190,284 in 27 hours in support of our 27 teams. We hope to reach even greater heights this year! On Thursday, February 7, Vassar will host another 27-hour fund raising challenge #27Brew2. Go Brewers!

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To Kill a Mockingbird: Broadway’s Biggest Hit and its Vassar Ties

Posted 2/1/2019

Shona Tucker, Associate Professor and Chair of the Drama Department, tells us what it’s like to be in the hottest show on Broadway—To Kill a Mockingbird. But Tucker is not the sole member of the cast who is part of the Vassar community.

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Vassar Celebrates Black History Month

Posted 1/31/2019

For decades, black men and women have played important roles at Vassar and beyond. As we celebrate Black History Month, we are highlighting some of those achievements and milestones, as well as some events that will take place on campus in February.

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Sophomore Career Connections: Fifth Annual Event Continues Tradition of Jump-Starting Careers

Posted 1/31/2019

More than 230 students and over 90 mentors from a wide array of fields gathered on campus to network and share information at the fifth annual Sophomore Career Connections, hosted by the Career Development Office and the Office of Alumnae/i Affairs and Development in January.

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Freehand: Drawings by Inez Nathaniel Walker on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, February 1–April 14, 2019

Posted 1/30/2019

The artist’s first one-person museum exhibition will open with a lecture on Friday, February 1, 2019, in Taylor Hall 102 at 5:30pm, followed by a reception at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at 6:30 pm

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Van Jones to speak at Commencement

Posted 1/30/2019

Political commentator, author and social justice leader Van Jones will deliver this year’s commencement address, Sunday, May 26, 2019.—The Miscellany News

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Helping Students Cope: Counseling Service Offers 4 Workshops

Posted 1/24/2019

Based on the most common reasons students seek help from the Counseling Service, therapists there have developed a series of four-week, drop-in workshops.

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Vassar Has Her Back—The Campus Provides Backdrop for Bobbie Lucas ’15’s Thesis Film

Posted 1/16/2019

Vassar connections—and the campus location—help a UCLA film student advance

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Vassar Spreads Cheer for the Holidays: Athletics Teams, Tutors, OCEL and Others Join in the Fun

Posted 12/20/2018

Vassar is a busy place in early December as the end of the fall semester approaches, but students, faculty, and staff take time every year to reach out to folks in the Poughkeepsie area who need a boost during the holiday season.

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Annual Community Works Campaign to Provide Grants to 10 Local Nonprofits in 2019

Posted 11/1/2018

Vassar’s 18th annual Community Works campaign kicks off today with a goal of $75,000 for 10 local agencies that serve families throughout the Mid-Hudson Valley.

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