Professor Javier J. Concepcion of Brookhaven National Laboratory explores ligand-based catalysis as a strategy for small molecule activation, with applications in water oxidation and the reduction of CO2 to fuels using earth-abundant, first-row transition metals.

The event is free and open to the public.

This talk follows the Sagar Sanpati from Mandvi, India, to the Old Port of Mombasa to explore how interregional connections are forged and strengthened through hospitality.

This event is free and open to the public.

C. Mildred Thompson Lecture: Dr. Laurie Woodard, Associate Professor of African American History at The City College of New York, on Fredi Washington’s career as a performer, writer, and civil and human rights activist.

This event is free and open to the public.

Jonathan Weinberg, Ph.D., artist and curator of The Maurice Sendak Foundation, presents the Belle Krasne Ribicoff Lecture, examining Maurice Sendak’s artistic legacy and the evolution of the modern picture book.

This event is free and open to the public.

David N. Weil is James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics at Brown University. In this talk, Professor Weil traces how arguments over fertility have evolved over time, examines the real economic effects of low fertility, and evaluates the potential effect of pro-natalist policies in shaping American women’s fertility decisions.

Campus community only, please.

Battery Dance, celebrating its 50th anniversary, performs a new dance by Rosalind Newman, created during their March 2026 residency at Vassar College.

This event is free and open to the public.

2026 Pauline Newman ’47 Distinguished Speaker in Science, Technology, & Society: Dr. Safiya U. Noble, Professor at UCLA and author of Algorithms of Oppression.

Free and open to the public.

Using vintage photographs and newspaper articles, we explore the lives and works of some of the female physicians in late 19th and early 20th century Poughkeepsie.

Free and open to the public.

Poughkeepsie Day School invites families to a Grades 5–8 Open House. Learn how students engage deeply in collaborative, hands-on learning through the GROW program and the school’s International Baccalaureate® candidacy.

Poughkeepsie Day School invites families to a Grades 1–4 Open House. Learn how students actively engage in collaborative, hands-on learning through the GROW program and the school’s International Baccalaureate® candidacy.

The Iyoya exhibit, named after John Iyoya ’83, highlights young children’s interest in the visual arts and encourages their use of the arts to express themselves.

Join us for free drop-in family programs on select Sundays this winter and spring. Each date will feature a different hands-on art activity inspired by art on view. Activities can be modified for all ages, but are best suited for children ages 5 and up.

This event is free and open to the public.

Professor Oliver Rollins’s book, Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of The Violent Brain (Stanford University Press, 2021), traces the evolution of neuroimaging research on anti-social behavior, stressing the limits of this controversial brain model when dealing with aspects of social inequality. Oliver Rollins is the Old Dominion Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

This event is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, Malcolm Keating, will be giving a Jamie Nisse Greenberg Memorial Lecture: An Argument for Propositions in an Indian Philosopher — Revisiting a Dogma.

This event is free and open to the public.

An Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture by Evangelos Kotsioris, Director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment and a Curator in the Department of Architecture & Design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Featuring student winners of the soloist competition. Eduardo Navega, conductor

This event is free and open to the public.

Join The Loeb as we celebrate the opening of Bunmei Kaika: Political Landscape in Early Modern and Modern Japan, an exhibition featuring works by Hokusai, Hiroshige, and many others who contributed to a thriving print culture that cleverly navigated waves of political and social upheaval in 19th-century Japan. 

This event is free and open to the public.

Let Me Sing: A senior recital of original compositions for choir, chamber orchestra, and more. 

This event is free and open to the public.

Album release concert gathering with Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz. Join Deborah and her ensemble as we celebrate this release by delving into the melodies and unpacking the texts that inspired them.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration required.
 

Celebrate the opening of the exhibition Women’s Work: Organizing New York Independent Film & Video and the related Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts’ signature program, which together highlight the organizing labor that enabled groundbreaking media collectives to pursue new forms of self-expression and advocate for political change. Come meet some of the key figures whose labor made important untold stories visible, and those who are working to preserve and continue this work today.

This event is free and open to the public.