In March, representatives of Vassar, the University of Edinburgh, University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda,  and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay convened on the campus of the revered University of Edinburgh in Scotland to collaborate on initiatives incorporating the principles of the liberal arts.

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.

Jessica “Jess” Chong ’08 became the second alum contestant to compete on Survivor,” following Ethan Zohn ’96, winner of Survivor’s third season in 2002. Chong reflects on her time on the show and life after Vassar.

Over the past seven years, the President’s Administrative Fellows program has helped launch careers for dozens of recent alums.

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.

Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna is the first career retrospective of the single most represented photographer in the collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center—Rollie McKenna ’40. The exhibition, on view at the Loeb through June 2, features more than 100 of her photographs—from portrait and architectural to documentary photography.

When Screen actor Susan Elizabeth Shaw was cast in the film Oppenheimer as a recent Vassar alum, she decided to learn all she could about her character. She discovered that Laurie Schwab Zabin ’46 had a distinguished career as a champion of women’s reproductive rights.

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.