Twelve Vassar students attended the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Washington, D.C. in March. One of the students, Chi Nguyen ’26,won a top award in the undergraduate poster competition.
Vassar’s Jeh Vincent Johnson ALANA Cultural Center, in collaboration with Affinity Engagement, recently hosted Reunite & Restore, a two-day campus gathering focused on well-being and connection. The event, held April 10–11, encouraged alums, students, employees, and the larger Vassar community to take a moment to nourish their minds and bodies.
Four Vassar students took a deep dive into Mexico’s history and culture in a six-week, intensive course last fall taught by Colleen Ballerino Cohen, Professor of Anthropology and Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies and Chair of Anthropology. During Winter Break, students augmented what they had learned by taking a nine-day excursion to Mexican cities, towns, and villages, sampling the country’s rich culinary tradition and visiting museums, artists, and craftsmen.
Alum Laura Graceffa ’87 and retired professor Mark Schlessman bring Vassar’s Arboretum to life through popular campus tours, connecting generations of students and families to its rich history and traditions. Their decades of stewardship, culminating in a new endowment, aim to preserve the Arboretum and its class tree tradition for future students.
Members of the Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre (VRDT), the College’s faculty-led dance company, are getting conservatory-level instruction from accomplished professionals—without having to give up their academic pursuits.
Vassar celebrated the dedication of The Dede Thompson Bartlett Center for Admission and Career Education on March 28, hailing the state-of-the-art building as a symbol of Vassar’s commitment to its students from admission to graduation and beyond.
Vassar faculty and administrators gathered in Thompson Library on February 9 to celebrate the opening of a freshly renovated space designed to enhance students’ academic experience
Students got advice and support from alum and parent mentors in a variety of fields to jump-start plans for their post-Vassar lives during Vassar’s Sophomore Career Connections, a three-day event hosted by the offices of Career Education and Advancement.
For more than 50 years, Vassar’s multidisciplinary programs have encouraged students to tackle complex questions from multiple perspectives. The programs will receive a boost from planned renovations to the Old Laundry Building.
