Past Events
Featuring student winners of the soloist competition.
Eduardo Navega, conductor
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
A high-level business pitch competition for Vassar Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program participants, where they can showcase their entrepreneurial prowess and connect with alums, mentors, faculty, peers, and community members.
Author Catherine Tan, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vassar College, will be sharing her book, Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge. Reception to follow.
A performance of original dance works by four Vassar seniors. Reserve free tickets.
Guided by Matt Ford ’17, Black-identifying alums and current students will discuss their unique experiences, write about the resources that helped them thrive, and create a collective archive of their stories to share with generations of Black Vassar students to come.
Campus community only, please.
A 20–30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Café.
Eduardo Navega, director
This exhibition uses objects from the permanent collection of the Loeb Art Center to examine the ways in which photography has been read, used, and manipulated as data—quantifiable, measurable “information” about the world.
Campus community only, please.
Professor Emerita of Psychological Science Janet Gray will discuss her work as a science writer and advocate in the field of environmental health, focusing especially on the links between common chemical exposures and breast cancer.
Romy Opperman, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The New School, will deliver the third Philospher’s Holiday Lecture of the year.
Artist Mary Haddad, who created a collaborative mural with local students, will speak on activism, artistry, and the Black Lives Matter Movement in her work. Small reception to follow.
In this annual Henry Seely White Lecture sponsored by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Professor Bhramar Mukherjee will focuses on understanding selection bias in administrative patient-care data such as Electronic Health Records and medical/pharmaceutical claims.
A forward-thinking educational event aimed at promoting sustainability, environmental consciousness, and innovative solutions among students and teachers. Paid registration required.
In this annual Henry Seely White Lecture sponsored by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Professor Bhramar Mukherjee will discuss how we rely on summary statistics from historically privileged populations and then devise clever statistical methods to transfer/transport them for cross-ancestry use.
James Osborn, conductor
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
In recognition of their extraordinary writing of an original play, the Drama Department will present two events featuring the work of Angelina Papa ’24 and Foster Schrader ’25.
Join the Environmental Cooperative and Dutchess County for our collaborative Earth Day Celebration at the Vassar Barns! There will be something for everyone at this family-friendly event.
“All God’s Creatures”: Songs about all manner of living things, by Schubert, Beethoven, Ivor Davies, Whitacre, and others.
Drew Minter, conductor
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
A Capotorto and Mulas Family Lecture by Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost, Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biology at Princeton University and MacArthur Fellow, whose work provides deeper insights into microbial metabolism with implications for drug discovery and antibiotic research.
James Osborn, director
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live