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Ethan Slater Comes Back to Vassar

While on campus to receive the AAVC’s Young Alum Achievement Award, Ethan Slater ’14, who portrayed the lead in SpongeBob SquarePants and Boq in Wicked, talked to students and others in the Vassar community about his career as a performer.

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Beth Greenwood Selected in Third Round in Inaugural Women’s Pro Baseball League Draft

History in the making! This marks the first time that women’s professional baseball players have heard their names called in a draft by one of the league’s four founding teams.

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Vassar’s Community Works Campaign: Funding Critical Services Across the Hudson Valley

Vassar’s Community Works campaign is raising essential funds for ten local agencies providing housing, food assistance, immigrant support, restorative justice programs, LGBTQ youth services, and more. With government funding declining, donations are vital to sustaining these community resources.

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Vassar Women Founders Redefine Entrepreneurship—“It’s a Mindset,” They Say

Three women founders—all alums—redefine entrepreneurship as a mindset. Learn their secrets to questioning conventional wisdom, cultivating fearlessness, and navigating the path to success.

In the Media

Carrie Goldberg ’99 wrote an op-ed for Newsweek about the real-world damage that AI is causing and the laws that are in place to prevent it.

GBH News interviewed Assistant Baseball Coach Beth Greenwood about her athletic career and recent draft to the first-ever Women’s Pro Baseball League.

Professor of History Robert Brigham was a featured guest on C-SPAN for a lecture about the growth of the U.S. military in the 1940s, titled “WWII Mass Mobilization.”

The Hollywood Reporter announced that Warner Bros Pictures will be adapting the upcoming novel Under Story, by author Chloe Benjamin ’10.

Sara Josepha Hale, an early supporter of Vassar and correspondent to Matthew Vassar, was the catalyst behind the establishment of Thanksgiving as a national holiday, as noted in a New York Times op-ed.