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.

Vassar alum Rachel Simmons ’96 has had a winding career path—and she came to Vassar to tell students that’s OK.

As part of Vassar’s Inclusive History Initiative, students in a Vassar Intensive presented research relating to the Rev. Howard Thurman, a religious and civil rights leader who gave more than a dozen sermons at the College between 1928 and 1957.

Prize-winning playwright Solomon Hess’ 24 combined his two passions, writing The Game, a play that spotlights the origins of lacrosse.

The two most recent appointees to Vassar’s Board of Trustees, Jennifer Haas ’94 and Delia Cheung Hom ’00, bring some unique talents and backgrounds to their new posts.

Renowned African historian Dr. Michael Gomez told a Vassar audience the continent’s medieval history can serve as a lesson for modern day nations.

In her 2015 Peabody-award-winning documentary, How to Dance in Ohio, Alexandra Shiva ’95  introduced viewers to a group of autistic teens participating a formal dance for the first time. At the end of 2023, almost nine years after the film premiered, How to Dance in Ohio, the stage production, opened on Broadway.