News and Events Home 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 Mark Burstein ’84 reflects on his presidency of Lawrence University in a conversation with Lawrence University News. Dr. Jeffrey Brenner ’90—CEO of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, Spirit of Vassar Award winner, and MacArthur Fellow—examines New York City’s homelessness crisis in a New York Daily News opinion piece. Poet Jubi Arriola-Headley ’91 is featured in a “Brief but Spectacular” segment on PBS NewsHour. In the Washington Post, Prof. of Political Science and Africana Studies Taneisha N. Means writes about why there are so few Black women in high-level federal posts. Meryl Streep ’71 gets a surprise birthday greeting in the City of New York. Associate Professor of Political Science Luke Harris spoke to the Wall Street Journal about the debate over critical race theory. “One Art,” a poem by Elizabeth Bishop ’34, is the subject of a New York Times “Close Read” feature. Recording artist and Neon Gold Records co-founder Lizzy Plapinger ’10 spoke to American Songwriter about starting her record label in her Vassar dorm room. The Fulbright Program hosted a special event to kick off Pride Month featuring Sasha Velour ’09—a 2009 Fulbright U.S. Student to Russia and winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 9. View More Items
Mark Burstein ’84 reflects on his presidency of Lawrence University in a conversation with Lawrence University News.
Dr. Jeffrey Brenner ’90—CEO of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, Spirit of Vassar Award winner, and MacArthur Fellow—examines New York City’s homelessness crisis in a New York Daily News opinion piece.
In the Washington Post, Prof. of Political Science and Africana Studies Taneisha N. Means writes about why there are so few Black women in high-level federal posts.
Associate Professor of Political Science Luke Harris spoke to the Wall Street Journal about the debate over critical race theory.
Recording artist and Neon Gold Records co-founder Lizzy Plapinger ’10 spoke to American Songwriter about starting her record label in her Vassar dorm room.
The Fulbright Program hosted a special event to kick off Pride Month featuring Sasha Velour ’09—a 2009 Fulbright U.S. Student to Russia and winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 9.