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 Film Professor Mia Mask spoke about her book Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western on The Swinging Palm Trees Podcast. Film Professor Mia Mask interviews pioneering director Mario Van Peebles, whose New Jack City (1991) placed him at the helm of New Black Realist cinema, for the British Film Institute. 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. The Washington Post says the new novel by Adam Ross ’89 “is so good, it will give readers hope for the year ahead.” MODfest 2025 Co-Directors Drew Minter and Thomas Sauer, both Music Department faculty members, preview Vassar’s upcoming arts festival on WAMC. History Professor Lydia Murdoch was interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine about an art exhibition that reflects women’s evolving roles in Victorian society. 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. Assistant Professor of Astronomy Ed Buie spoke to History about how scientists discovered the universe was expanding. View More Items
Film Professor Mia Mask spoke about her book Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western on The Swinging Palm Trees Podcast.
Film Professor Mia Mask interviews pioneering director Mario Van Peebles, whose New Jack City (1991) placed him at the helm of New Black Realist cinema, for the British Film Institute.
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.
The Washington Post says the new novel by Adam Ross ’89 “is so good, it will give readers hope for the year ahead.”
MODfest 2025 Co-Directors Drew Minter and Thomas Sauer, both Music Department faculty members, preview Vassar’s upcoming arts festival on WAMC.
History Professor Lydia Murdoch was interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine about an art exhibition that reflects women’s evolving roles in Victorian society.
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.
Assistant Professor of Astronomy Ed Buie spoke to History about how scientists discovered the universe was expanding.
