Careers

A speaker gestures while addressing a small group of students wearing name badges at a networking event near a “Healthcare & Medicine (Clinical)” sign.

Students got advice and support from alum and parent mentors in a variety of fields to jump-start plans for their post-Vassar lives during Vassar’s Sophomore Career Connections, a three-day event hosted by the offices of Career Education and Advancement.

A photo of Mae Buck ’26, a person with long brown hair and a red dress. Buck is sitting outside in the sunlight with grass in the background.

In a profoundly challenging time for higher-education funding characterized by federal retrenchment and disappearing grants, Mae Buck ’26 has been awarded a Beinecke Scholarship worth $35,000.