Distinguished Achievement Award

2023

Sau Lan Wu ’63

• Watch Sau Lan Wu’s 2014 Commencement address.
• Read more about Wu in the June 2023 Vassar Stories article.

2022

Jonathan Granoff ’70

• Watch Granoff’s interview by Chip Reid ’77 and Granoff’s acceptance remarks.
• Read more about Granoff in the March 2023 Vassar Stories article.

2021

Meryl Streep ’71, P’08, ’13

• Watch Streep’s acceptance remarks.
• Read more about Streep in the October 2022 Vassar Stories article.

2020

John Carlstrom ’81

• Watch a fireside chat conversation with Carlstrom.
• Read more about Carlstrom in the Summer/Fall 2020 VQ article.

2019

Phyllis Bronfman Lambert ’48

• Read more about Lambert in the September 2019 Vassar Stories article.

2018

Lynn Povich ’65

• Watch Povich’s acceptance remarks.
• Read more about Povich in the September 2018 Vassar Stories article.

2017

Frances “Sissy” Tarlton Farenthold ’46, P’75

• Watch Farenthold’s acceptance remarks.
• Read more about Farenthold in the September 2017 Vassar Stories article.

2013

Rebecca Eaton ’69

• Read more about Eaton in the Winter 2013 Vassar Quarterly article.

2012

Linda Nochlin ’51

• Read more about Nochlin in the Winter 2012 Vassar Quarterly article.

2010

Dr. Anne B. Young ’69

• Read more about Young in the Fall 2010 Vassar Quarterly article.

2009

Frances Sternhagen ’51

• Watch Sternhagen’s acceptance remarks.
• Read more about Sternhagen in the Spring 2009 Vassar Quarterly article.

2008

Laurie Schwab Zabin ’46

• Watch a lecture by Zabin.
• Read more about Zabin in the Spring 2008 Vassar Quarterly article.

2007

Vera Rubin ’48

• Read more about Rubin in the Winter 2006 Vassar Quarterly article.

2006

Katharine Lee Reid ’63

• Read more about Reid in the Winter 2005 Vassar Quarterly article.

2005

Jamshed J. Bharucha ’78

• Read more about Bharucha in the Winter 2004 Vassar Quarterly article.

2004

Ellen May Galinsky ’64

• Read more about Galinsky in the Winter 2003 Vassar Quarterly article.

2003

Dr. June Jackson Christmas ’45-4

• Read more about Christmas in the Winter 2002 Vassar Quarterly article.

2002

Pauline Newman ’47

• Read more about Newman in the Winter 2001 Vassar Quarterly article.