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Vassar Researcher (and Alumnus) Wins Robot Prize

Congratulations to Joshua de Leeuw ’08, a faculty research associate in Vassar’s Interdisciplinary Robotics Research Laboratory, who has recently garnered national recognition for achievements based on his work in Vassar’s labs. Read More …

Vassar Community Offers Each Other “Mini-Courses”

Remember the rigors of physics getting you down? That mid-semester feeling of being crushed by the weight of English lit? This year, students can take a study break and still be studying. Read More …

A Sampling of April Speakers

Professor Emeritus Eamon Grennan (pictured), poet, translator, and essayist, will read from his latest book of poems, Matter of Fact (Graywolf Press, 2008), on April 16 at the Vassar Bookstore. Read More …

The Drama Department Spring Season

Vassar’s drama department has two big productions on its lineup this spring. Over Parents’ Weekend (this coming weekend), Vassar Professor of Drama and Director of Theater Christopher Grabowski will direct Mary Zimmerman’s Tony-winning play Metamorphoses. Read More …

April 2009


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