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 Meghan Daum ’92, who lost everything in the L.A. fires, wrote a guest essay for The New York Times on how the experience taught her to accept help. Film Professor Mia Mask, author of Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western, returns to the British Film Institute in London as season curator of a 15-film retrospective of African American-themed westerns. MODfest 2025 Co-Directors Drew Minter and Thomas Sauer, both Music Department faculty members, preview Vassar’s upcoming arts festival on WAMC. The Washington Post says the new novel by Adam Ross ’89 “is so good, it will give readers hope for the year ahead.” History Professor Lydia Murdoch was interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine about an art exhibition that reflects women’s evolving roles in Victorian society. Assistant Professor of Astronomy Ed Buie spoke to History about how scientists discovered the universe was expanding. 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. View More Items
Meghan Daum ’92, who lost everything in the L.A. fires, wrote a guest essay for The New York Times on how the experience taught her to accept help.
Film Professor Mia Mask, author of Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western, returns to the British Film Institute in London as season curator of a 15-film retrospective of African American-themed westerns.
MODfest 2025 Co-Directors Drew Minter and Thomas Sauer, both Music Department faculty members, preview Vassar’s upcoming arts festival on WAMC.
The Washington Post says the new novel by Adam Ross ’89 “is so good, it will give readers hope for the year ahead.”
History Professor Lydia Murdoch was interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine about an art exhibition that reflects women’s evolving roles in Victorian society.
Assistant Professor of Astronomy Ed Buie spoke to History about how scientists discovered the universe was expanding.
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.