Stories

Sep. 13, 2019

Vassar College has forged a partnership with Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health that will enable Vassar students to earn a master’s degree in public health a year after they graduate from Vassar.

Sep. 12, 2019

During Vassar’s Fall Convocation ceremony, Lisa Collins, Professor of Art on the Sarah Gibson Blanding Chair and Professor of American and Africana Studies, gave the Convocation Address, and the Alumnae/i Association of Vassar College bestowed awards upon six distinguished alumnae/i.

Jul. 17, 2019

The fusion of art and nature was the theme of a daylong event on June 29 at Kew Gardens in London, hosted by Vassar’s Office of Regional and International Programs and attended by more than 90 alumnae/i. The gathering was organized in conjunction with the exhibition, Chihuly at Kew: Reflections on Nature, and featured a talk by Leslie Jackson Chihuly ’83.

Jun. 18, 2019

About 35 alumnae/i and family members took part in a program on Jewish and Muslim Student Life during Reunion June 7.

Jun. 17, 2019

More than 1,500 athletes and coaches competed in eight events in the Special Olympics New York Summer Games June 15 on the Vassar campus and three other venues. Many won medals, but those who didn’t were just as proud as they congratulated each other and shared all the fun they all were having with their friends, families and the more than 1,200 volunteers who made the Games a success.

May. 17, 2019

Vassar’s 14th annual robotics competition featured a modified version of Harry Potter’s favorite game, Quidditch.

May. 16, 2019

Emily Janoski ’20 and three of her friends recently spent an entire weekend crunching data about the Canadian Rugby 7s Senior Women’s Team—and they weren’t alone in this curious pursuit. At DataFest, an annual event for statistics and data science aficionados in colleges around the country, about 60 Vassar students and more than 2,000 others analyzed the same information.

May. 3, 2019

Nancy Sherman, Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, delivered a lecture on the Vassar campus on the application of Stoicism in addressing moral issues facing modern-day soldiers.

May. 2, 2019

Vassar students, faculty and administrators celebrated their year-long collaboration with local agencies that are making the community a better place.

Apr. 24, 2019

Winners of Emmy, Grammy, and Tony awards—and even a Pulitzer Prize, head the lineup of plays and readings at this summer’s Powerhouse Theater, sponsored by Vassar and New York Stage and Film.

Apr. 5, 2019

“Quiet as It’s Kept: Passing Subjects, Contested Identities,” a scholarly conference on “passing,” held April 5-7 on the Vassar College campus, advanced the dialog about racial, ethnic, and gender identity in substantial ways.

Apr. 5, 2019

What can you do with a liberal arts education? At the new career program Major Palooza, mentors in a wide array of fields showed that the outcomes are unlimited.

Mar. 7, 2019

Students, educators and supporters of Vassar’s Urban Education Initiative gathered with Poughkeepsie school officials and staff at the Alumnae/i House March 1 to celebrate UEI’s 15th anniversary.

Feb. 21, 2019

As attention is drawn to Vassar’s “scandal” in 1897, two Vassar faculty members have decided it’s time to take a scholarly look at “passing.”

Feb. 7, 2019

The migration of millions of African American families from the Deep South to northern cities in the first half of the 20^th century is one of the most significant, and largely untold, stories of American history. On Saturday, February 16, harpist and Adjunct Artist in Music Ashley Jackson will relate this story, through music and the spoken word, in the performance Miss Black America.

Jan. 30, 2019

For decades, black men and women have played important roles at Vassar and beyond. As we celebrate Black History Month, we are highlighting some of those achievements and milestones, as well as some events that will take place on campus in February.

Jan. 30, 2019

More than 230 students and over 90 mentors from a wide array of fields gathered on campus to network and share information at the fifth annual Sophomore Career Connections, hosted by the Career Development Office and the Office of Alumnae/i Affairs and Development in January.

Jan. 15, 2019

Vassar connections—and the campus location—help a UCLA film student advance

Dec. 20, 2018

Vassar students, faculty and staff made the holidays a little brighter for folks in the Poughkeepsie area.

Dec. 17, 2018

In what has become a Vassar tradition, a couple of chemistry majors make ice cream every week in four or five minutes, then give it away to fellow students. Their not-so-secret ingredient: liquid nitrogen.