The Alumnae/i Association of Vassar College (AAVC) has selected five alums to honor for their impact on the College, their communities, and the larger world. Two of these awards were given at Reunion 2023 in early June. The other three will be presented in the coming academic year.

The Dutchess County Historical Society recently presented its annual Dutchess Award to the Loeb for its “exceptional contributions to the Dutchess County community in the areas of preservation, history and/or education.”

Vassar’s Dede Thompson Bartlett Center for Admission and Career Education is the College’s most innovative and sustainable building yet.

Three members of the board of trustees who are retiring this year were honored for their combined 15 years of service to the College at a dinner during Commencement weekend.

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.