News and Events Home All News Vassar Everywhere Events Press Releases Featured Videos Vassar Everywhere Sherrilyn Ifill ’84, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, has been named to the 2021 TIME100, Time magazine’s annual list of the world’s most influential people. Discover magazine highlighted research by Professor of Psychological Science Randolph Cornelius that can help explain why humans are the only animals that cry. Port magazine interviewed Caleb Stein ’17 and Andrea Orejarena ’17 about their artistic collaboration, what it’s like to work with one’s “other half,” and how they met as first-year students at Vassar. In the Washington Post, Kelly J. Shannon ’03 lays out a blueprint for how the United States can continue to support Afghan women’s rights. Taneisha Means, Assistant Professor of Political Science on the Class of 1951 Chair, spoke to the Highlands Current about the importance of making police forces more diverse. Vox explains how astronomer Vera Rubin ’48 “grew from a young researcher whose bold ideas were initially ignored into the kind of scientist who could change an entire field.” NPR highlighted data scientist Michael Donnelly ’07’s role in providing crucial information about COVID-19 breakthrough cases to the CDC. Katherine Hite, Professor of Political Science on the F. Thompson Chair and Director of Research Development, challenges the dominant story of her home state of Texas in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America. Frances “Sissy” Farenthold ’46, P’75, former Texas state legislator and AAVC Distinguished Achievement Award winner, was profiled in the Texas Observer. View More Items
Sherrilyn Ifill ’84, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, has been named to the 2021 TIME100, Time magazine’s annual list of the world’s most influential people.
Discover magazine highlighted research by Professor of Psychological Science Randolph Cornelius that can help explain why humans are the only animals that cry.
Port magazine interviewed Caleb Stein ’17 and Andrea Orejarena ’17 about their artistic collaboration, what it’s like to work with one’s “other half,” and how they met as first-year students at Vassar.
In the Washington Post, Kelly J. Shannon ’03 lays out a blueprint for how the United States can continue to support Afghan women’s rights.
Taneisha Means, Assistant Professor of Political Science on the Class of 1951 Chair, spoke to the Highlands Current about the importance of making police forces more diverse.
Vox explains how astronomer Vera Rubin ’48 “grew from a young researcher whose bold ideas were initially ignored into the kind of scientist who could change an entire field.”
NPR highlighted data scientist Michael Donnelly ’07’s role in providing crucial information about COVID-19 breakthrough cases to the CDC.
Katherine Hite, Professor of Political Science on the F. Thompson Chair and Director of Research Development, challenges the dominant story of her home state of Texas in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America.
Frances “Sissy” Farenthold ’46, P’75, former Texas state legislator and AAVC Distinguished Achievement Award winner, was profiled in the Texas Observer.