Stories

Apr. 18, 2019

Vassar’s Russian Studies students have always scored high in the New York State Competition of Spoken and Written Russian. This year was no exception.

Apr. 12, 2019

Vassar College and the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), an innovative medical school in Rwanda, have forged a partnership that will help the medical school blend the liberal arts into its curriculum.

Apr. 5, 2019

Dana McRae ’22 first met Emmett O’Malley at Accepted Students Day five months before he enrolled at Vassar. Since then, the two have become good friends.

Apr. 5, 2019

Julie Morel ’19 plans to become a midwife. But before she begins her three years of formal training, she’ll travel the world examining the roles that culture, religion, spirituality and family play in maternity care in four diverse nations.

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. 28, 2019

Students in a Medieval and Renaissance Studies Class spent a morning hurling balls of clay at a kiddie pool, learning the workings of a medieval weapon, a trebuchet.

Mar. 25, 2019

Professor of Psychological Science Debra Zeifman talks about her appointment as Dean of Studies.

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.

Mar. 4, 2019

A year after being named Interim Dean of the College, Carlos Alamo-Pastrana talks about his goals as he assumes the post permanently.

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. 24, 2019

Based on the most common reasons students seek help from the Counseling Service, therapists there have developed a series of four-week, drop-in workshops.

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.

Nov. 9, 2018

Veterans Day has taken on a special significance on the Vassar campus since 2013, when the first cohort of 11 Posse Veterans enrolled. The Vassar community offers its thanks to the 34 Posse vets currently on campus and the dozens of faculty and staff who have served in our Armed Forces.

Oct. 25, 2018

Thanks to the generosity of Ellen Rubin Gordon ’52, her family, and the Cele H. and William B. Rubin Family Fund, Vassar’s All Campus Dining Center has a new name. In a ceremony Oct. 25 in the foyer of the Students’ Building, the dining center was officially designated Gordon Commons.

Oct. 18, 2018

Two members of the science faculty and 11 science majors joined hundreds of others in the field to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Vassar’s first astronomy professor at the Maria Mitchell Association’s 2018 Women in Science Symposium Oct. 5 and 6 in Wellesley MA.

Oct. 18, 2018

During the second half of October, Vassar athletes and athletic venues will be awash in pink in observance of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Sep. 6, 2018

More than a dozen Vassar students, all humanities and sciences majors, took part in an intensive six-week introduction to coding class over the summer. They’re now using the new knowledge to enhance their research capabilities.

Aug. 29, 2018

Move-In Day is hectic, but for first-year students, their parents – and even veteran Vassar folks -- it’s a time of excitement and hope.