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A photo of Mae Buck ’26, a person with long brown hair and a red dress. Buck is sitting outside in the sunlight with grass in the background.

In a profoundly challenging time for higher-education funding characterized by federal retrenchment and disappearing grants, Mae Buck ’26 has been awarded a Beinecke Scholarship worth $35,000.

Barbara Dixon ’69 (née Saslaw) led a remarkable life, excelling as a pioneering force in the finance industry before transitioning to environmental advocacy, where she championed landscape preservation and sustainability. In her honor, her husband, Christopher Dixon, has made a transformative gift to Vassar, supporting the Center for Career Education (CCE) and The Bartlett Center to empower students and alums in their career journeys.

Orange and pink colors of the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas. Clouds of hydrogen emit a pink glow while hot stars shine blue.

With help from the world’s largest digital camera, the stunning first public images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory—named after the renowned astronomer and class of 1948 alumna—were released on Monday.

Photo Credit: Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NSF/DOE