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 Amitava Kumar, Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair, talked with Publishers Weekly about his latest book, A Time Outside This Time. Vox explains how astronomer Vera Rubin ’48 “grew from a young researcher whose bold ideas were initially ignored into the kind of scientist who could change an entire field.” Dara Greenwood, Associate Professor of Psychological Science, wrote a Psychology Today article about how social media fuels body modification. NPR highlighted data scientist Michael Donnelly ’07’s role in providing crucial information about COVID-19 breakthrough cases to the CDC. Frances “Sissy” Farenthold ’46, P’75, former Texas state legislator and AAVC Distinguished Achievement Award winner, was profiled in the Texas Observer. Katherine Hite, Professor of Political Science on the F. Thompson Chair and Director of Research Development, challenges the dominant story of her home state of Texas in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America. Hamilton actor Paul Stovall was interviewed on WAMC about a Celebrating the African Spirit event co-sponsored by Vassar College at which he performs parts of Fredrick Douglass’s 1858 speech in Poughkeepsie. Benjamin Ho, author and Associate Professor of Economics, was quoted at length in the New Yorker article “Are Americans More Trusting Than They Seem?” The Poughkeepsie Journal previewed Hamilton actor Paul Oakley Stovall’s reenactment of abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s 1858 speech at College Hill—an event co-sponsored by Vassar College. View More Items
Amitava Kumar, Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair, talked with Publishers Weekly about his latest book, A Time Outside This Time.
Vox explains how astronomer Vera Rubin ’48 “grew from a young researcher whose bold ideas were initially ignored into the kind of scientist who could change an entire field.”
Dara Greenwood, Associate Professor of Psychological Science, wrote a Psychology Today article about how social media fuels body modification.
NPR highlighted data scientist Michael Donnelly ’07’s role in providing crucial information about COVID-19 breakthrough cases to the CDC.
Frances “Sissy” Farenthold ’46, P’75, former Texas state legislator and AAVC Distinguished Achievement Award winner, was profiled in the Texas Observer.
Katherine Hite, Professor of Political Science on the F. Thompson Chair and Director of Research Development, challenges the dominant story of her home state of Texas in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America.
Hamilton actor Paul Stovall was interviewed on WAMC about a Celebrating the African Spirit event co-sponsored by Vassar College at which he performs parts of Fredrick Douglass’s 1858 speech in Poughkeepsie.
Benjamin Ho, author and Associate Professor of Economics, was quoted at length in the New Yorker article “Are Americans More Trusting Than They Seem?”
The Poughkeepsie Journal previewed Hamilton actor Paul Oakley Stovall’s reenactment of abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s 1858 speech at College Hill—an event co-sponsored by Vassar College.