Founded in 2007, the Associated Emeritae/i of Vassar College (AEVC) offers retired faculty an opportunity to keep up with each other’s post-Vassar activities while maintaining a formal relationship with the College.

Marking a major milestone in Vassar College’s overall strategy and commitment to protecting the environment, the Board of Trustees has ramped-up its ongoing efforts to address climate change by amending its investment policy to explicitly include environmental and sustainability considerations.

Vassar President Elizabeth H. Bradley and five other noted public health experts discussed “Public Health After COVID-19” in a webinar on September 25.

Buoyed by a $10-million gift from alumna Dede Thompson Bartlett, Vassar College today unveiled plans for a new building that will house the offices of Admission and Career Education, President Elizabeth Bradley announced.

The results of 52 scientific research projects conducted this summer by 77 Vassar students and 27 members of the faculty were on display September 29 at the 36th annual Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI) Symposium.

The world’s economy has been growing at an impressive rate for the past two centuries—and the engine driving that growth is the freedom entrepreneurs have to test new ideas. That was the theme of a lecture delivered on the Vassar campus by economist Deidre Nansen McCloskey.

Professor of English Eve Dunbar, Professor of Drama Shona Tucker, Assistant Professor of Biology Myra Hughey, and Professor of Psychological Science Michele Tugade ’95 have been appointed to endowed chairs, Dean of the Faculty William Hoynes announced.

One of Vassar’s oldest traditions—gathering together for Convocation—resumed for the first time in 747 days on September 22. On a beautiful fall day on Commencement Hill, the campus community celebrated the start of the fall semester. President Elizabeth Bradley’s summed up the occasion succinctly: “I’m so thrilled to be with all of you—on campus, together, at last!”

Writer and activist Lila Nordstrom ’06—one of the many students attending the nearby Stuyvesant High School on 9/11—was inspired to found StuyHealth, an advocacy group representing former students who were in lower Manhattan on that day in 2001. She recently published a chronicle of the 20-year battle to ensure permanent funding for the health needs of 9/11 survivors.