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 Six presidents of colleges originally founded for women, including President Elizabeth Bradley, wrote a New York Times letter expressing “deep concern” about the Supreme Court's recent ruling on abortion. Award-winning TV/Film Producer Jason Blum ’91 is donating $10 million to Vassar College for student financial aid, as noted by Variety and many other media outlets. The Ford Foundation announces it has awarded a senior fellowship to Sherrilyn Ifill ’84, President and Director-Counsel Emeritus of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, “to continue her work on strengthening American democracy.” The Beauty of Blackness, a documentary co-directed by Kiana Moore ’02, won Best Feature for Tribeca X—the Tribeca Festival’s brand-sponsored film competition, as noted by the Hollywood Reporter and other media. Research by Assistant Professor of Biology Leroy Cooper and colleagues on aortic stiffness was highlighted in Neurology Today. Ismail Rashid, Professor of History, will be part of a United Nations panel discussion, “Slavery, Freedom, and the Black Loyalists Experience in Canada and Sierra Leone,” as noted by a Halifax Examiner story. “The Women Who Saved Wildflowers,” an article in Sierra magazine, highlights the work of pioneering ecologist and Vassar botany professor Edith Roberts in the 1920s. Maria Hantzopoulos, Associate Professor of Education and Coordinator of Secondary Teacher Education, and her students’ work at Poughkeepsie High School was the subject of a Hudson Valley Press story. JAMA published a study co-authored by President Elizabeth H. Bradley comparing cancer-related spending and mortality rates in the U.S. vs. other high-income countries. View More Items
Six presidents of colleges originally founded for women, including President Elizabeth Bradley, wrote a New York Times letter expressing “deep concern” about the Supreme Court's recent ruling on abortion.
Award-winning TV/Film Producer Jason Blum ’91 is donating $10 million to Vassar College for student financial aid, as noted by Variety and many other media outlets.
The Ford Foundation announces it has awarded a senior fellowship to Sherrilyn Ifill ’84, President and Director-Counsel Emeritus of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, “to continue her work on strengthening American democracy.”
The Beauty of Blackness, a documentary co-directed by Kiana Moore ’02, won Best Feature for Tribeca X—the Tribeca Festival’s brand-sponsored film competition, as noted by the Hollywood Reporter and other media.
Research by Assistant Professor of Biology Leroy Cooper and colleagues on aortic stiffness was highlighted in Neurology Today.
Ismail Rashid, Professor of History, will be part of a United Nations panel discussion, “Slavery, Freedom, and the Black Loyalists Experience in Canada and Sierra Leone,” as noted by a Halifax Examiner story.
“The Women Who Saved Wildflowers,” an article in Sierra magazine, highlights the work of pioneering ecologist and Vassar botany professor Edith Roberts in the 1920s.
Maria Hantzopoulos, Associate Professor of Education and Coordinator of Secondary Teacher Education, and her students’ work at Poughkeepsie High School was the subject of a Hudson Valley Press story.
JAMA published a study co-authored by President Elizabeth H. Bradley comparing cancer-related spending and mortality rates in the U.S. vs. other high-income countries.