Students, educators and supporters of Vassar’s Urban Education Initiative gathered with Poughkeepsie school officials and staff at the Alumnae/i House March 1 to celebrate UEI’s 15th anniversary.

A year after being named Interim Dean of the College, Carlos Alamo-Pastrana talks about his goals as he assumes the post permanently.

As attention is drawn to Vassar’s “scandal” in 1897, two Vassar faculty members have decided it’s time to take a scholarly look at “passing.”

Shona Tucker, Associate Professor and Chair of the Drama Department, tells us what it’s like to be in the hottest show on Broadway—To Kill a Mockingbird. But Tucker is not the sole member of the cast who is part of the Vassar community.

The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded a $331,000 grant to Assistant Professor Psychological Science Bojana Zupan to continue her research into the possible causes of autism and similar disorders.

The year 2018 was a very good one for Vassar. Here are just a few of the highlights.

In what has become a Vassar tradition, a couple of chemistry majors make ice cream every week in four or five minutes, then give it away to fellow students. Their not-so-secret ingredient: liquid nitrogen.

Vassar Assistant Professor Colette Salyk and 25 other astronomers have published a paper announcing they have gathered new evidence about how planets are forming in other parts of the galaxy. The discovery sheds light on how our own solar system was formed.

As the 2018 William A. Starr Distinguished Lecturer, renowned essayist and cultural critic Roxane Gay recently discussed her New York Times best-selling book Bad Feminist—chosen as the common reading for Vassar’s incoming class of 2022.