News and Events News & Events All News In the Media Events Press Releases Featured Videos Members of the Vassar community are always making news! Find the latest media mentions of alums, students, faculty, and other employees right here. In the Media In Oprah Daily, author and Professor of English Amitava Kumar reflects on Salman Rushdie’s profound influence on writers and readers around the world. Ms. magazine paid tribute to the late Urvashi Vaid ’79, “the Queer Movement’s Legendary Firebrand.” Blumhouse CEO and founder Jason Blum ’91 talks to Deadline in advance of receiving the Locarno Film Festival’s Premio Raimondo Rezzonico award for Best Independent Producer. The DC Comics character Mary Marvel is headed to Vassar, as noted by the Poughkeepsie Journal. Joseph Nevins, Professor of Geography, wrote an article in The Conversation about why crossing the U.S.-Mexico border is deadlier than ever for migrants. Mia Mask, Professor of Film on the Mary Riepma Ross ’32 Chair, was mentioned in an Arts Shelf article about a celebration of the work of actor Pam Grier that she curated. In a Washington Post op-ed, American University Professor Leonard Steinhorn ’77 describes “The Fundamental Flaw in ‘Make America Great Again.’” Mia Mask, Professor of Film on the Mary Riepma Ross ’32 chair, is featured in the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema pre-show video A Brief Intro to Black Westerns, now playing with the Jordan Peele film Nope in 39 theaters nationwide. Children’s book illustrator Ronni Solbert ’46 was remembered by the New York Times. View More Items
In Oprah Daily, author and Professor of English Amitava Kumar reflects on Salman Rushdie’s profound influence on writers and readers around the world.
Blumhouse CEO and founder Jason Blum ’91 talks to Deadline in advance of receiving the Locarno Film Festival’s Premio Raimondo Rezzonico award for Best Independent Producer.
Joseph Nevins, Professor of Geography, wrote an article in The Conversation about why crossing the U.S.-Mexico border is deadlier than ever for migrants.
Mia Mask, Professor of Film on the Mary Riepma Ross ’32 Chair, was mentioned in an Arts Shelf article about a celebration of the work of actor Pam Grier that she curated.
In a Washington Post op-ed, American University Professor Leonard Steinhorn ’77 describes “The Fundamental Flaw in ‘Make America Great Again.’”
Mia Mask, Professor of Film on the Mary Riepma Ross ’32 chair, is featured in the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema pre-show video A Brief Intro to Black Westerns, now playing with the Jordan Peele film Nope in 39 theaters nationwide.