The Washington Post announced its new theater critic: Naveen Kumar ’04.

The New York Times profiled TikTok influencer Carlos Eduardo Espina ’20, “a one-man Telemundo for millions of Latinos in the United States and one of the White House’s favored social media personalities.”

Director, writer, and actor Lim Sheng Hui ’17 will bring Into the Symbiocene to the Stockholm Fringe Festival, as announced by Citizens Journal.

Casting for the 2024 Powerhouse Theater season was the subject of a broadwayworld.com article.

The memoir Woman of Interest, by Assistant Professor of English Tracy O’Neill, was reviewed in the New York Times.

Vassar College was ranked #2 in a CNBC story that looked at the Princeton Review’s list of the best colleges for financial aid.

Ars Technica reports that AI tech giant Nvidia has named its newest AI platform for astronomer Vera Rubin ’48—one year after paying tribute to computer pioneer Grace Hopper, class of 1928, with a “superchip” named after her. Hopper was also included in a U.S. News & World Report story on where 10 famous inventors went to college.

Matthew Moneypenny ’93 was named Executive Director of the Southlands Foundation, as announced in a release that quoted Michele Tugade ’95, Professor of Psychological Science on the William R. Kegan Jr. Chair, the outgoing board president of the nonprofit.

The Powerhouse Theater summer season was included in a New York Times article about recommended summer theaters outside of New York City.

Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Natalie Priebe Frank was interviewed by Quanta magazine’s The Joy of Why podcast about how tiling patterns can unlock structural secrets of the natural world.

Dr. Monica Riley ’86, Founder/CEO at Dr. Monica’s Natural Beauty, LLC, was recently selected as Top Holistic and Self Care Leader of the Year for 2024 by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP), as noted by WICZ Fox 40.

Vassar College was mentioned in a Plane and Pilot magazine article about things to do in Poughkeepsie.

The book Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge, by Catherine Tan, Assistant Professor of Sociology, was the subject of a Chronogram story.

On NPR’s All Things Considered, Scott Detrow talked to founder and host of the podcast Making Gay History Eric Marcus ’80 about how LGBTQ Pride has evolved through the years.

Dr. James Dodington ’05, a pediatric emergency medicine specialist with Yale Medicine, spoke with WTNH News 8 about how to prevent drownings.

Attorney Deva Kyle ’01 was nominated by President Biden to become the next director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, as noted by Plan Sponsor.

The poem “Sustain” by Tim Horvath ’93 was published in the Summer 2024 issue of Ploughshares.*

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Photo credits: Kumar, Myles Loftin; Frank, Grace Adams Ward ’24.

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