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President Bradley Pens Article about Mental Health and Technology on Campuses for Forbes.com

Posted 6/21/2019

For Forbes.com, President Bradley writes an article exploring how technology can be key in helping colleges address the devastating and costly effects of mental health issues among young adults.

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Building Interfaith Bridges on Campus

Posted 6/20/2019

About 35 alumnae/i and family members took part in a program on Jewish and Muslim Student Life during Reunion June 7.

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Vassar Wins Prestigious CASE Awards

Posted 6/20/2019

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) has bestowed two top honors on Vassar’s Office of Alumnae/i Affairs and Development. OAAD was cited for its overall performance in fundraising and for its annual Sophomore Career Connections program.

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Feeley Wins Academic All-American Honors

Posted 6/20/2019

Monica Feeley ’19, Vassar’s first field hockey All-American, has won Academic All-American honors as well. She’s the eighth Vassar student-athlete to do so.

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Special Olympics: A Smashing Success!

Posted 6/17/2019

More than 1,500 athletes and coaches competed in eight events in the Special Olympics New York Summer Games June 15 on the Vassar campus and three other venues. Many won medals, but those who didn’t were just as proud as they congratulated each other and shared all the fun they all were having with their friends, families and the more than 1,200 volunteers who made the Games a success.

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President Bradley Lauds Professional Development Program

Posted 6/13/2019

19 Vassar Administrators Complete Five-Month Course

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AAVC Honors Gerry Laybourne ’69, P’93 with Outstanding Service Award

Posted 6/9/2019

Gerry Laybourne ’69, P’93, a Vassar trustee and former President of the Alumnae/i Association of Vassar College, received the AAVC’s Outstanding Service Award for her exceptional contributions to Vassar.

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Van Jones Urges Vassar Grads to ‘Find Common Ground’

Posted 6/6/2019

Van Jones, host of The Redemption Project and The Van Jones Show on CNN, delivered a stirring and inspiring address at Vassar’s 155th Commencement ceremony May 26 at the college’s outdoor amphitheater.

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They Call Her ‘Mom’—ALANA Seniors Honor Security Officer Lavetta Cooks

Posted 5/28/2019

Lavetta Cooks has been more than an on-call security officer to many students of color. She’s also been an on-campus ‘mom.’

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Van Jones Delivers Address at 155^th Commencement

Posted 5/26/2019

CNN host and criminal justice advocate Van Jones delivered the Commencement address on May 26 at Vassar’s 155^th graduation ceremony.

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Seven Vassar Alumnae/i Receive Fulbright Fellowships

Posted 5/24/2019

Savannah Smith ’19, Nicoilas Gedigk ’19 and five recent alums will teach or do research in a total of six countries on three continents as recipients of 2019 Fulbright Scholarships.

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Robotics Competition Goes to Hogwarts

Posted 5/20/2019

Vassar’s 14th annual robotics competition featured a modified version of Harry Potter’s favorite game, Quidditch.

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Vassar Grant Enables Alum to Follow Her Dream

Posted 5/20/2019

Thanks to a Time Out grant, Eve Madalengoitia ’86 will spend the next 12 months composing music, a lifelong passion that she never had an opportunity to pursue full time.

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Crunching the Numbers—Vassar Takes Part in Nationwide Data Fest

Posted 5/17/2019

Emily Janoski ’20 and three of her friends recently spent an entire weekend crunching data about the Canadian Rugby 7s Senior Women’s Team—and they weren’t alone in this curious pursuit. At DataFest, an annual event for statistics and data science aficionados in colleges around the country, about 60 Vassar students and more than 2,000 others analyzed the same information.

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Straight From The Miscellany News: Gordon Commons Chef Carves Fruit Animals, Displays Cooking Heritage

Posted 5/14/2019

Assistant Chef Benito Vona, the man behind some of the masterfully created food carvings seen at Gordon Commons, discusses his background, inspirations and love for cooking.

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Straight From The Vassar Political Review:Is the Public the Enemy of Good Journalism?

Posted 5/7/2019

Fewer and fewer people are turning to the mainstream media for their information, leading to a diminishing readership.

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Georgetown Philosophy Prof. Delivers Lecture on Military Ethics

Posted 5/3/2019

Nancy Sherman, Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, delivered a lecture on the Vassar campus on the application of Stoicism in addressing moral issues facing modern-day soldiers.

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Celebrating Campus-Community Collaboration—Vassar Thanks Community Partners for Hosting Student Volunteers

Posted 5/3/2019

Vassar students, faculty and administrators celebrated their year-long collaboration with local agencies that are making the community a better place.

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Sonya K. Smith Named Vassar’s New Dean of Admission

Posted 5/1/2019

Sonya K. Smith, Director of Graduate Admissions at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, has been named Vassar’s new Dean of Admission, and Student Financial Services, President Elizabeth Bradley announced.

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Straight From The Miscellany News: Cartoons Constitute Clear, Creative Social Commentary

Posted 4/25/2019

The Art Effect, a school in Poughkeepsie that offers media courses for children, hosted a cartoon workshop for Vassar students in the Thompson Memorial Library studio space on April 16. The participants illustrated moments from their college experience.

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Vassar Student and Recent Grad Benefit from Vassar/Law School Partnership

Posted 4/25/2019

Parker Zimmerman ’19 and Emily McDaniels ’18 are the first Vassar student and recent grad to take advantage of a partnership between Vassar and Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law that ensured a generous scholarship as well as mentoring services by law school professors and administrators, some of whom are Vassar grads themselves.

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Powerhouse Theater Announces Stellar 2019 Lineup

Posted 4/24/2019

Winners of Emmy, Grammy, and Tony awards—and even a Pulitzer Prize, head the lineup of plays and readings at this summer’s Powerhouse Theater, sponsored by Vassar and New York Stage and Film.

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In the Footsteps of Maria Mitchell: Professor Debra M. Elmegreen Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Posted 4/22/2019

Debra Elmegreen, Professor of Astronomy on the Maria Mitchell Chair, has been elected to the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, Martin Luther King Jr.—and Maria Mitchell herself.

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The Iconic Shakespeare Garden Gets a Makeover

Posted 4/22/2019

More than 100 years since it was built, Vassar’s Shakespeare Garden is getting a much-needed refresher. The work is being spearheaded by renowned landscape architect Ed Hollander ’76 and funded by a member of the class of 1969.

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Nora Zaki: Meet Vassar’s Advisor for Muslim Student Life

Posted 4/22/2019

Nora Zaki brings an ecumenical background to her new role as Vassar’s Advisor for Muslim Student Life.

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Russian Studies Students Wow at State Competition

Posted 4/17/2019

Vassar’s Russian Studies students have always scored high in the New York State Competition of Spoken and Written Russian. This year was no exception.

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Straight From The Vassar Political Review: Michael Wolff ‘75 discusses ‘Fire and Fury’ and the possibility of Trump’s resignation

Posted 4/14/2019

Editors-in-Chief Alexander Barzacanos and Andrew Solender got the opportunity to sit down with the writer to discuss his approach to writing, as well as his views on the administration and the state of politics today.

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Vassar Conference Draws Scholarly Examinations on Topic of “Passing”

Posted 4/12/2019

“Quiet as It’s Kept: Passing Subjects, Contested Identities,” a scholarly conference on “passing,” held April 5-7 on the Vassar College campus, advanced the dialog about racial, ethnic, and gender identity in substantial ways.

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What Can You Do with a Liberal Arts Degree?

Posted 4/11/2019

What can you do with a liberal arts education? At the new career program Major Palooza, mentors in a wide array of fields showed that the outcomes are unlimited.

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Vassar Forges Partnership with Innovative Medical School in Rwanda

Posted 4/11/2019

Vassar College and the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), an innovative medical school in Rwanda, have forged a partnership that will help the medical school blend the liberal arts into its curriculum.

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Dean Pittman Named Middle States Peer Evaluator

Posted 4/9/2019

Edward Pittman ‘82, Senior Associate Dean of the College, has been named a Peer Evaluator for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

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Watson Fellowship to Send Julie Morel ’19 Around the World

Posted 4/5/2019

Julie Morel ’19, a Science Technology and Society major from Brooklyn, is one of 41 college students in the country to be awarded a 2019 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which provides graduating seniors the opportunity to conduct 12 months of independent study outside the United States. She’ll examine the roles that culture, religion, spirituality and family play in maternity care in four diverse nations.

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Fast Friends: It All Began on Accepted Students Day

Posted 4/5/2019

Dana McRae ’22 first met Emmett O’Malley at Accepted Students Day five months before he enrolled at Vassar. Since then, the two have become good friends.

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Straight From The Miscellany News: Vigil grieves, honors victims of New Zealand shootings

Posted 4/4/2019

Students, faculty and Poughkeepsie locals gathered on the Library Lawn to mourn the deaths of 50 Muslims killed in shootings taking place on March 15.

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President Bradley Pens Article about Mental Health and Technology on Campuses for Forbes.com

Building Interfaith Bridges on Campus

Vassar Wins Prestigious CASE Awards

Feeley Wins Academic All-American Honors

Special Olympics: A Smashing Success!

President Bradley Lauds Professional Development Program

AAVC Honors Gerry Laybourne ’69, P’93 with Outstanding Service Award

Van Jones Urges Vassar Grads to ‘Find Common Ground’

They Call Her ‘Mom’—ALANA Seniors Honor Security Officer Lavetta Cooks

Van Jones Delivers Address at 155th Commencement

Seven Vassar Alumnae/i Receive Fulbright Fellowships

Robotics Competition Goes to Hogwarts

Vassar Grant Enables Alum to Follow Her Dream

Crunching the Numbers—Vassar Takes Part in Nationwide Data Fest

Straight From The Miscellany News: Gordon Commons Chef Carves Fruit Animals, Displays Cooking Heritage

Straight From The Vassar Political Review:Is the Public the Enemy of Good Journalism?

Georgetown Philosophy Prof. Delivers Lecture on Military Ethics

Celebrating Campus-Community Collaboration—Vassar Thanks Community Partners for Hosting Student Volunteers

Sonya K. Smith Named Vassar’s New Dean of Admission

Straight From The Miscellany News: Cartoons Constitute Clear, Creative Social Commentary

Vassar Student and Recent Grad Benefit from Vassar/Law School Partnership

Powerhouse Theater Announces Stellar 2019 Lineup

In the Footsteps of Maria Mitchell: Professor Debra M. Elmegreen Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The Iconic Shakespeare Garden Gets a Makeover

Nora Zaki: Meet Vassar’s Advisor for Muslim Student Life

Russian Studies Students Wow at State Competition

Straight From The Vassar Political Review: Michael Wolff ‘75 discusses ‘Fire and Fury’ and the possibility of Trump’s resignation

Vassar Conference Draws Scholarly Examinations on Topic of “Passing”

What Can You Do with a Liberal Arts Degree?

Vassar Forges Partnership with Innovative Medical School in Rwanda

Dean Pittman Named Middle States Peer Evaluator

Watson Fellowship to Send Julie Morel ’19 Around the World

Fast Friends: It All Began on Accepted Students Day

Straight From The Miscellany News: Vigil grieves, honors victims of New Zealand shootings

Van Jones Delivers Address at 155^th Commencement