In the Media–January 2025 Roundup

A headshot of Catherine Tan, a person with long black hair and a red shirt.
         Professor Catherine Tan
         Photo: Lucas Pollet

Time magazine published an op-ed by Assistant Professor of Sociology Catherine Tan about the misguided belief in a link between vaccines and autism.

Hyperallergic included the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center exhibition Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency in its lineup of Upstate art shows to see this month.

Leah Goodridge ’04, a lawyer and a member of the New York City Planning Commission, wrote a New York Times op-ed about the need for more public bathrooms in New York City.

Earth.com discussed the research by Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science Stephen Flusberg in the article “Power of words: How language framing shapes our perception.”

Vassar organist Gail Archer will perform in the 2025 Ukrainian relief tour, as noted by Broadway World.

Award-winning actor Lisa Kudrow ’85, who is starring in the new Netflix series, No Good Deed, was the subject of a Wall Street Journal article.*

Climate activist Joanna Smith ’92, who last year applied washable finger paint to the museum case holding Edgar Degas’s sculpture Little Dancer, was interviewed for a Democracy Now! article about Western nations’ crackdown on climate protests.

Assistant Professor of Astronomy Ed Buie was quoted in a History article about how scientists discovered the universe was expanding.

Vassar College was mentioned in a New York Theatre Guide story about the history of the musical Hamilton.

*Article is behind a paywall.

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Posted
January 14, 2025