Alum News & Stories
Lisa Kudrow ’85 discussed her time at Vassar on the podcast SmartLess with hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett.
Jonathan Karl ’90, Chief Washington Correspondent for ABC News and the co-anchor of This Week, spoke about the presidential election on the podcast Stay Tuned with Preet.
Mackenzie Galloway-Cole ’17, who lost her wife, Megan, while still in her 20s, took a chance on attending a grief camp and talked about the experience with CNN.
Joanna Pearlstein ’92 was promoted to an expanded role as Print Editor of the New York Times Opinion section, as noted by the newspaper.
Anirudh Tiwathia ’05, Director of Behavior Science at the Center for Behavior and the Environment, was mentioned in a Los Angeles Times story about television shows that have climate change thoughtfulness included in their scripts.
Filmmaker India Donaldson ’07 and her new film, Good One, were the subjects of a Los Angeles Times feature.
Michele Tugade ’95, Professor of Psychological Science on the William R. Kenan Jr. Chair, was featured in a Women’s Health article about learned optimism.
Alex Bhattacharji ’92 wrote a Rolling Stone article about the unlikely friendship between Sammy Davis Jr. and Anton La Vey, founder and high priest of the Church of Satan.
Susanna Ashton ’89, a Professor of English at Clemson University, wrote an article in The Conversation about her new book, A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Richard Barakat ’81 discussed art, literature, and Faust on Philosophic Dialogues from La Frontera.
Margaret Floy Washburn, class of 1891, was the subject of a Discover magazine article.
Mattie Drucker ’22 was one of several people interviewed by the French news site Brut. on what France is like for American tourists.
Amanda Forsythe ’98 was named Best Opera Singer at the SF Classical Voice Audience Choice Awards.
Burt Flickinger III ’75, owner of Strategic Resource Group, wrote a Chicago Sun-Times op-ed titled, “Customers, union workers will lose if Kroger-Albertsons merger gets blocked.”
Fashion designer Elizabeth Hawes, class of 1925, was mentioned in a New York Post article titled, “How politics and fascism shaped American fashion: The wave that wiped away anonymity.”
Matthew Moshen ’92, a volunteer at the Oyster Bay Historical Society and a member of the Long Island Sons of the American Revolution, discovered graves of five American Revolutionary War veterans in a small, often overlooked cemetery in Oyster Bay, as noted by LI Herald.com.
David Foote ’75, chief analyst and research officer with IT research firm Foote Partners, was quoted in a Computerworld article about how AI adoption is impacting IT employment in the next five years. Foote was also mentioned in a CSO article about which cybersecurity skills are earning IT security workers the most pay.
