Join us for an inspiring conversation with Dr. Georgette Bennett ’67, a trailblazer in building interreligious understanding and a lifelong champion of peace and justice. Dr. Bennett will also be honored by the AAVC Alum Recognition Committee with the 2025 AAVC Spirit of Vassar Award for her extraordinary contributions and lasting impact.

This is a hybrid event: in-person for the campus community only and virtual via Zoom for those off-campus.

A Ford Scholars Symposium keynote lecture by the Hon. Joan M. McMenemy ’88, Associate Justice of the Berkshire Juvenile Court.

A lecture by famed author Clifford Rogers. Professor Rogers is a Professor of History at the United States Military Academy, West Point; Senior Editor, The West Point History of Warfare; and Co-Director of the USMA Digital History Center.

This event is open to the public.

Ford Scholars, along with CAAD participants, present their summer research findings.

The Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI) is an immersive program for Vassar science students to engage in cutting-edge research under the supervision of a faculty mentor.

Campus community only, please.

Join Steven Cash ’84, Executive Director of The Steady State and former national security official, for a compelling discussion on the threats facing American democracy today.

This event is open to the public.

Join us at the Olmsted Greenhouse for a calm doodling session with Vassar's Counseling Center! No artistic skills necessary—we are just doodling for fun and to calm the mind. All ages welcome.

All are welcomed to join the ALANA Center, ALANA Orgs, and SGE in kicking-off Latiné Heritage Month! Be ready to celebrate through dance, food, music, interactive tables, participating in the flag ceremony, and connecting with one another!

A leading practitioner of Iraqi maqam, Hamid Al-Saadi’s music combines classical poetry with a dizzyingly complex system of musical ornamentation, modulation and improvisation.

This event is open to the public.

Terence Tao, Professor of Mathematics at UCLA, will give a lecture on Recent Developments in Analytic Prime Number Theory as part of the Asprey Lectures in Mathematics.

This event is open to the public.

Terence Tao, Professor of Mathematics at UCLA, will give a lecture on Machine-Assisted Proof as part of the Asprey Lectures in Mathematics.

This event is open to the public.

Creature Feature is a survey of 20 years of Sean McCarthy’s work in drawing, painting, and comics, all featuring delicately drawn tragicomic monsters. McCarthy’s work is broadly allusive, engaging with literature, film, esoteric texts, and a wide range of art historical touchstones; it explores grotesque mysteries and uncomfortable psychological and emotional states in a language of expressive, exquisite draftsmanship.

This event is open to the general public.

Join the Film Department as we screen Secret Mall Apartment followed by a Q&A with the director, Jeremy Workman P ’27.

This event is open to the public.

Featuring over sixty works added to the Loeb Art Center’s collection between 2020–2025, Chronostasia explores various ways artworks can alter our perception of time. Free and open to the public

MODfest 2026

Presented by members of the Music Department faculty. Thomas Sauer, piano, Iva Casian Lakos, cello, Ian Tyson, clarinet, Gail Archer, organ

This event is open to the public.

This installation brings together work by the acclaimed potter Maria Martinez and multimedia artist Rose B. Simpson, whose sculpture “Seed” is the first new addition to Vassar’s campus art in nearly 20 years.

MODfest 2026

An art exhibition featuring the work of local artist Ivars Sprogis opens on August 7. A reception will be held on August 9 from 4–6 p.m. Sprogis favors the Realistic Impressionism style in his watercolor and oil paintings.

Brooklyn Museum curator Stephanie Sparling Williams shares insights into the process of creating Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art, a highly innovative reimagining of how contemporary audiences experience historic American art.

This event is open to the public.

Gabriela Mikova Johnson, soprano, Chris Cantu, tenor, Susan Brown, piano, Stephen Paul Johnson, narration