In the Media–November 2023 Roundup

Voting at Vassar College was the subject of a Chronogram story that quoted newly elected Town of Poughkeepsie Supervisor Rebecca Edwards, Professor of History on the Eloise Ellery Chair; Taneisha Means, Assistant Professor of Political Science on the Class of 1951 Chair; and Magda Sharff ’26.

College Historian Ronald Patkus spoke to WAMC about the exhibition Elizabeth Bishop’s Postcards, now on view at Vassar’s Archives & Special Collections Library.

Vassar College and Chip Reid ’77, author and former NBC News correspondent, were mentioned in a Mid Hudson News article about his talk at the College regarding his book, Battle Scars.

portrait of David Kennerley
David Kennerley ’82

David Kennerley ’82 spoke to the New York Times about his new book, Getting In: NYC Club Flyers from the Gay 1990s.

Fubing Su, Professor of Political Science, was quoted in a USA News Hub story about a push by China’s leaders for women to be stay-at-home moms.

Paulina Bren, Adjunct Professor of Multidisciplinary Studies and Director of Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies on the Pittsburgh Chair in the Humanities, and author of The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free, was a guest on the This is Love podcast.

Colette Salyk, Associate Professor of Astronomy and Chair of Physics and Astronomy on the Maria Mitchell Chair, was quoted in Newsweek about the work she and other scientists have done with the James Webb Space Telescope to understand planet creation.

Lavanya Manickam ’25, Milena Chilla-Markhoff ’92, Associate Professor of Anthropology Candice Lowe Swift, and Professor of Political Science Himadeep Muppidi spoke to KALW about the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, which all they attended together.

Miriam Cohen, Professor Emerita of History, was interviewed for a WTTW documentary on Jane Addams and Hull House, including the work of Julia Lathrop, class of 1880.

Peipei Qiu wearing a burgundy shirt and jacket.
          Peipei Qiu

Peipei Qiu, Professor and Chair of Chinese and Japanese on the L.B. Dale & A. Lichtenstein Chair, spoke to China Daily about a project she is leading that uses AI to preserve the oral history of World War II “comfort women.”

Sarah E. Nash ’74, Chair of the Board at Bath & Body Works, received the Russell S. Reynolds Jr. Chair of the Year Award, as noted by Business Wire.

Dara Greenwood, Associate Professor of Psychological Science and Director of Media Studies, wrote a Psychology Today article on “Coping Through Comedy and Connection” that included the work of Michele Tugade ’95, Professor of Psychological Science on the William R. Kenan Jr. Chair.

Photos: Kennerley, courtesy of the subject; Qiu, Mike Okoniewski.

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Posted
November 27, 2023