Vassar College was mentioned in a Hechinger Report op-ed written by former President Catharine Bond Hill about veterans attending select colleges and in a Hudson Valley Press article about the Dutchess BOCES High School Model United Nations, held at Vassar. The Bridge for Laboratory Sciences was included in an Arch 20 article about the seven most popular buildings with fritted glass facades. The construction of the Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts was the subject of a Poughkeepsie Journal story. 

President Elizabeth Bradley received the Yale School of Public Health’s 2023 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for her leading scholarship in public health, as noted by the school and Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Bradley spoke to the University of Chicago Booth School of Business about how colleges can create a sense of belonging for new students who come from varied backgrounds.

Conductor and Chicago Opera Theater Music Director Lidiya Yankovskaya ’08 was interviewed by the Detroit Jewish News.

Robert K. Brigham, Professor of History on the Shirley Ecker Boskey Chair, was quoted in a National News article about Russia’s war in Ukraine. 

Luke C. Harris, Associate Professor of Political Science, wrote a The Hill op-ed, “In this Congress, Democrats should brace for a fight on Affirmative Action.”

Rafael López ’93 was named Maryland Secretary of Human Services, as noted by WUSA9.

Estefanía Fadul ’10 will direct Nayna Agrawal’s Dharma at Studio Tenn, as noted in a Tennessee Tribune story about the play.

Lawyer Carrie Goldberg ’99 was quoted in a Bloomberg Law article about lawsuits against Amazon Inc. about whether the company is liable for deadly products it offers on its website. Goldberg was interviewed by Slate about a new law in New York that will help victims of sexual assault.

The formative years of Meryl Streep ’71, including her time at Vassar, were discussed in a New Yorker article.

Meena Miriam Yust ’06, a lawyer, wrote a Common Dreams article, “Seals, Satellites, and Dung Beetles—What Links Them?” which looks at the potential damage of low Earth orbit satellites.

Sherrilyn Ifill ’84, Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, talked with the New York Review of Books about affirmative action cases before the Supreme Court and the article she wrote for the Review, “When Diversity Matters.” 

Tenants’ rights attorney and New York City Planning Commission member Leah Goodridge ’04 talked about the use of “professionalism” as a tool for racism in a Forbes article.

Dr. Marygrace Elson ’78, who recently retired from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, wrote the poem Emerita, which won the college’s faculty poetry award and was included in its 2022 Creative Writing Anthology.

Photo credits: Bradley and Harris, John Abbott; Streep, Experimental Theatre of Vassar College; Goodridge, Laura Merrill.

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