Stories

Feb. 3, 2021

Judas and the Black Messiah, Shaka King ’01’s first studio film, focuses on the young Black man the FBI recruited to infiltrate and undermine the Black Panthers, leading to the harassment and killing of its leader Fred Hampton.

Feb. 1, 2021

Vassar College has extended its policy waiving its admission requirement that applicants submit SAT or ACT test scores, President Elizabeth Bradley announced. The pilot policy went into effect for the 2020-21 admission cycle and will continue for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 cycles.

Jan. 28, 2021

Visible Bodies: Representing Blackness is an illuminating exhibition currently on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center that uses the photography made by Black artists to illustrate the critical importance of being seen.

Jan. 19, 2021

Students in Professor of Geography Mary Ann Cunningham’s introductory Environmental Studies class used government and industry databases to compute annual carbon emissions in five local municipalities.

Jan. 14, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is preventing Vassar from staging Modfest, its annual celebration of the arts, in person, but the show will go on as a series of virtual events carrying the theme “Radical Imagination.”

Jan. 14, 2021

Fifteen Vassar students took part in a collaborative teaching program that matched the students with teachers, most of them Vassar alumnae/i, at public schools throughout the country.

Jan. 13, 2021

Dr. Barbara Barlow ’60 (right), an award-winning pediatric surgeon, has worked tirelessly to prevent traumatic injury to children throughout her long and distinguished career.

Jan. 12, 2021

Los Angeles attorney and film producer Brenda Feigen ’66 and Helen Pankhurst, OBE, a former Vassar College Clark Scholar and women’s rights activist, took part in “Reflections on Women’s Rights Present and Future,” an online panel discussion hosted by Vassar’s Office of Regional and International Programs on December 6, 2020.

Jan. 11, 2021

Hard work and determination, traits he acquired as a Vassar student-athlete, led Bobby Kinne ’18 to a key role in the 2020 World Series.

Jan. 7, 2021

Sue Buyer ’47 found there were limited opportunities for women journalists in the 1950s. Decades later, she found a different calling, publishing her first novel at age 92.

Jan. 4, 2021

Vassar’s second annual Summer Immersion in the Liberal Arts introduced 63 first-year students from historically underrepresented groups to virtually every aspect of campus life.

Dec. 18, 2020

Faculty and students in Vassar’s Engaged Pluralism Initiative (EPI) and Grand Challenges are collaborating on a project that matches faculty members with student partners who monitor their classes and share their observations.

Dec. 17, 2020

Reflections of a Year on Campus

Nov. 30, 2020

Professor of Chemistry Miriam Rossi, her husband, and two colleagues have published the results of research on a plant-based compound that could help in the treatment of COVID-19.

Nov. 12, 2020

As the region faces multiple challenges during the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and social injustice, supporting Vassar’s Community Works campaign is more important than ever.

Nov. 11, 2020

Vassar’s new five-year Climate Action Plan makes the College closer to its goal of carbon neutrality by 2030.

Nov. 6, 2020

Members of Vassar in Tech-Asia recently addressed the importance of a liberal arts education in technological fields and the impact the current pandemic has had on their work.

Nov. 5, 2020

The Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement and Education and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center have brought an evocative quilt project to the campus and the surrounding community.

Nov. 3, 2020

Vassar celebrated Halloween with greetings and giveaways from the staff and some trick-or-treating at the President’s House.

Oct. 21, 2020

President Bradley and a panel of guests discussed the lessons colleges and universities have learned during the COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemic’s implications for the future of higher education globally.