More than 1,500 alums, friends, and family members were on campus to celebrate Reunion the weekend of June 3–5. Classes spanned 60 years (1957 to 2017) and Reunion participants hailed from an impressive 44 states and 14 countries—traveling from as far away as Vietnam, China, Iceland, and Switzerland.

Can Vassar be considered an “Olmsted campus?” Associate professor of Art Yvonne Elet and a student, Caleb Mitchell ’22, address that question in an exhibition in Vassar’s Art Library.

A German TV mini-series and documentary based on GIs and Fräuleins, a book published 20 years ago by Professor of History Emerita Maria Höhn, has gained wide acclaim in Germany.

The Goldwater Foundation has awarded a graduate school scholarship to Abigail Whittington ’23 for her research on water pollution.

Six Vassar students have been recognized for their outstanding community service as recipients of the 2022 Helen Miringoff Awards

Forced by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to leave campus in March of their senior year and view their Commencement online, Vassar’s class of 2020 returned for an in-person ceremony complete with a presidential conferring of degrees and a hat toss!

Six Vassar alums have been awarded three-year research fellowships by the National Science Foundation

Irene López ’91, a clinical psychologist and award-winning college professor, will use her Time Out Grant from Vassar to run workshops at domestic violence shelters in Puerto Rico and, she hopes, spur lasting social change.

Dream “one size too big” and make every moment count. That was the advice—dispensed with passion and plenty of humor—from award-winning actor-writer-producer John Leguizamo P’23, S’90 to the 635 members of the class of 2022 at Vassar College’s 158th Commencement on Sunday, May 22.