Jess Chong ’08 gave Global News an insider’s view of Survivor after competing on the show’s 46th season.

Actor and storyteller Becky Stone ’70 will play the remarkable Dr. Pauli Murray, lawyer, founder of the National Organization for Women, and labor, civil rights, and women’s rights advocate, as announced by Urban News.

Laralyn McWilliams ’87, Creative Director of Free Realms and Game Developers Choice Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, was remembered by The Guardian.

Ellen Galinsky ’64, author, President and Founder of the Families and Work Institute, and Co-Director of the Civic Service Center at the University of Minnesota, wrote a Los Angeles Times op-ed about mental health and Gen Z.

Mildred McAfee Horton, class of 1920, was the first female director of the New York Life Insurance Company, as noted by the company.

Luis Inoa, Associate Dean of Student Living and Wellness, was quoted in a U.S. News and World Report article about ways to mitigate the challenges of college for first-year students.

David Chapman ’75, P’15 P’20 was inducted into the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame, as noted by Medical Marketing and Media.

Rescue Me, the B Street Theater comedy featuring actor Caroline Kinsolving ’03, was mentioned by Fox 40 and CBS News in Sacramento.

Amitava Kumar, Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair, talked about how to write every day on the WNYC podcast Slate Culture Gabfest. Professor Kumar also talked about his latest book, My Beloved Life, with Tricycle.

The late Craig G. Harris ’80, a writer and poet, was mentioned in the podcast Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows in the “Respectability Politics and the AIDS Crisis,” episode.

District Attorney Mike Schmidt ’03 discussed amending Portland’s failed drug decriminalization policy on The New York Times podcast The Daily.

President Elizabeth Bradley was mentioned in a Top Africa News article about the University of Global Health Equity White Coat Ceremony.

Abigail Coplin, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Science, Technology and Society, was quoted in The Week about the biotech rivalry between the U.S. and China.

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center was mentioned in a Boston Globe article about museums with recent acquisitions of works by the Bolivian artist Alejandro Mario Yllanes.

Dr. Zoe Adams ’15, a resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project, wrote a Scientific American article about the stigma against hospital patients with addiction.

Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake ’91 was a special guest on the February California Book Club, as noted by Alta.

Vassar’s Exploring Transfer Program was the subject of an Insight into Diversity article, which quoted Wendy Maragh Taylor, Associate Dean of the College for Student Growth and Engagement and Charlotte Gluck, Program Manager of the Exploring Transfer Together Initiative.

Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada ’13 earned tenure and was named the Marlene Crandall Francis Assistant Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College, as announced by the college.

Benjamin Ho, Professor of Economics, was quoted in a New York Times op-ed about the ramifications of a ban on fossil fuels.

Vassar College was mentioned in an Inside Higher Ed story about why there are so few polling sites on New York campuses, at odds with a state mandate.

Jessie Coller, class of 1913, who made Ann Arbor, Michigan history in 1940 as the first woman elected to a county board, was the subject of a Michigan Live story.

A lecture given by Film Professor Mia Mask at NC State’s College of Design and Department of Media Arts, Design, and Technology, was the subject of a Technician story.

Mary-Kay Lombino and Jessica Brier of the Loeb Art Center Discussed the Loeb’s new exhibition featuring the photography of Rollie McKenna ’40 on WAMC 51% show.

Emilie McDonald ’91 won the High Scribe Screenwriting Award at the Sun Valley Film Festival, as noted by Variety.

Jessie Spafford, class of 1884, a faculty member of Rockford College, was the subject of a Rockford Register Star article.

Loree Sandler ’86, the creator of Let Them Eat Candle, was the subject of a list23.com story.

Computer pioneer Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, class of 1928, was the subject of a Her Campus story.

Miguel Gomez ’28 was quoted in a Boston 25 News story about how his full ride to Vassar is allowing him to attend a top college without worry about the financial burden.

Photo credits: Chong, Robert Voets/CBS; Inoa, Karl Rabe; Schmidt and Maldonado-Estrada, courtesy of the subjects.

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