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Deidre Nansen McCloskey, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and History and Adjunct Professor of English and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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 Drama Shona Tucker

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.