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City of Poughkeepsie Mayor Yvonne Flowers and Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado spoke at the New York State Political Science Association’s annual meeting held on campus recently.

Scholars Khaled Beydoun, Associate Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, and Ken Stern, Director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, recently met for a dialogue on Islamophobia, antisemitism, and free speech, followed by discussion sessions with the campus community.

Students, faculty, staff, and administrators from nearly a dozen institutions recently gathered to explore questions about the future of belonging and mattering in higher education. They tackled topics ranging from ancestral intelligence to AI.

A rise in the number of drug overdoses in Poughkeepsie and the Hudson Valley, principally due to Fentanyl, has prompted Vassar health officials to add a new tool—Narcan—to campus first-aid tool kits.