Nearly 200 alums joined dozens of others in the Vassar community to celebrate the Alumnae House’s 100th anniversary and to pay tribute to its original benefactors, sisters Blanche Ferry Hooker of the class of 1894 and Queene Ferry Coonley, class of 1896.
Vassar President Elizabeth H. Bradley delivered the address at the University of Global Health Equity’s White Coat Ceremony, marking the end of two years of academic study and the start of four years of clinical training.
Students, faculty, and administrators gathered recently in Thompson Library for a symposium sponsored by the Vassar Environmental Research Institute, where they shared ideas on ways to combat climate change.
Vassar’s Exploring Transfer program inspires community college students to earn a four-year degree. Now the College is encouraging other institutions to create such programs of their own.
Ten Vassar students spent the summer working for not-for-profit organizations in Poughkeepsie under the auspices of the Office of Community-Engaged Learning’s Community Fellows program.