In the Media Members of the Vassar community are always making news! Find the latest media mentions of alums, students, faculty, and other employees right here. In an opinion essay for the New York Times, New York City Planning Commissioner Leah Goodridge ’04 points out the impracticality of having only 1,000 public restrooms for the city’s 8.3 million residents. Sociology Professor Catherine Tan wrote a Time magazine op-ed titled “Why People Believe Trump and RFK Jr.’s Dangerous and Debunked Claims about Vaccines and Autism” Stellene Volandes ’93, Editor in Chief of Town & Country magazine, was lauded in a New York Times Business Section article for revitalizing the 178-year-old magazine. The Guggenheim Foundation paid tribute to the late Violet Barbour, a Vassar history professor who in 1925 became the first woman to receive a Guggenheim fellowship. Twentieth-Century China features an interview with Professor Yu-chi Chang, discussing his article titled “Leaves, Silkworms, Yue Fei: Ways of Imagining the Territory in 1930s China.” Actor Ethan Slater ’14, who plays Boq in the new film Wicked, was the subject of a GQ article. The work of the late Professor Andrew Tallon was mentioned in a New York Times article on the restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral, following a devastating fire. Seungsook Moon, Professor of Sociology, was a guest on WBUR’s recent On Point episode, “Six hours under martial law in South Korea.” English Professor Amitava Kumar’s recent publication The Green Book: An Observer’s Notebook was named an Outlook Traveller Editor’s Pick for holiday gift giving. View More Items
In an opinion essay for the New York Times, New York City Planning Commissioner Leah Goodridge ’04 points out the impracticality of having only 1,000 public restrooms for the city’s 8.3 million residents.
Sociology Professor Catherine Tan wrote a Time magazine op-ed titled “Why People Believe Trump and RFK Jr.’s Dangerous and Debunked Claims about Vaccines and Autism”
Stellene Volandes ’93, Editor in Chief of Town & Country magazine, was lauded in a New York Times Business Section article for revitalizing the 178-year-old magazine.
The Guggenheim Foundation paid tribute to the late Violet Barbour, a Vassar history professor who in 1925 became the first woman to receive a Guggenheim fellowship.
Twentieth-Century China features an interview with Professor Yu-chi Chang, discussing his article titled “Leaves, Silkworms, Yue Fei: Ways of Imagining the Territory in 1930s China.”
The work of the late Professor Andrew Tallon was mentioned in a New York Times article on the restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral, following a devastating fire.
Seungsook Moon, Professor of Sociology, was a guest on WBUR’s recent On Point episode, “Six hours under martial law in South Korea.”
English Professor Amitava Kumar’s recent publication The Green Book: An Observer’s Notebook was named an Outlook Traveller Editor’s Pick for holiday gift giving.