Vassar’s beloved campus hangout, The Mug, has been part of the College’s culture since it opened in 1975. Last year, two alums who frequented the place when it was an often raucous bar provided the funding for a long overdue renovation.

Vassar students enrolled in an intensive class with Lecturer and Chair of Dance Miriam Mahdaviani collaborated with a professional instructor from Battery Dance, a New York City dance company, to create a pair of performances with students from Poughkeepsie High School.

Students, administrators, alums, and others in the Vassar community are collaborating on a series of events to observe Black History Month on campus.

Seventy-eight years after Elizabeth “Betty” Gatchell ’45 christened a ship named after the College, the champagne bottle used for the christening and the commemorative pin she received from the Navy that day are now preserved as part of Vassar’s history.

A gift from Patrick and Tamar Smith Pichette ’86 will support a new conservation fellowship for a Vassar alum who will work at a Canadian wilderness preserve and then return to The Preserve at Vassar to assist with research, environmental monitoring and land management.

At the ninth annual Sophomore Career Connections students benefitted from the insights of 85 career mentors, renowned soul coach Rha Goddess ’89, and alums at global consulting firm Deloitte.

The campus community gathered on January 16 to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., taking inspiration from the words of the slain civil rights leader and Vassar’s own student poets.