Three years after a global pandemic interrupted their normal college experience, members of Vassar’s Class of 2023 were lauded for their remarkable resiliency at the College’s 159th Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 21.

Assistant Professors Tamyka Jordon-Conlin, Deon Knights, Ashanti Shih, and Payton Small are members of a cohort of tenure-track Vassar faculty members who will be working together to take some aspects of the College curriculum in a new, multidisciplinary direction.

Twenty students in Assistant Professor Joshua deLeeuw’s Cognitive Science 320 class designed and built their own autonomous robots. Emmett, a robot that wasn’t working until the very end of the semester, rose to the occasion at Vassar’s annual Autonomous Robot Design Competition.

Drag artist extraordinaire Sasha Velour ’09, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Season 9, thrilled a packed Vassar audience with a rousing performance during a tour to promote her new memoir, The Big Reveal.

The documentary The Young Vote by Diane Robinson ’91, recently shown at Vassar, follows a group of students and activists to understand young people’s low voter turnout.

The Engaged Pluralism Race and Racism in Historical Collections Working Group hosted an event three days before Founder’s Day that asked members of the Vassar community to examine the racist elements that were present during Founders Day’s in the past.

Vassar’s Tempestry Project uses yarn to tell the story of climate change. The exhibit is currently on display in the Bridge for Laboratory Sciences.

Thirteen students have received awards for their contributions to the College and surrounding communities.

Vassar clubs from London to California took part in a wide range of conservation activities in observation of the second annual Vassar Serves event.