This is Vassar: The newsletter for Vassar College Alumnae/i and Families

Alumnae/i Help Celebrate MODFEST's 10th Anniversary

On January 19, Vassar kicks off the 10th anniversary of MODFEST, the college’s “exploration of the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries.” For the third year in a row, four alumnae/i—all recipients of Vassar’s prestigious W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts—will return to campus to share their work and reflect on their fellowship experiences. Read More …

Rocket Man

NASA's Microgravity University allowed Max Fagin '10 to experience what few do: weightlessness. A graduate of the Vassar-Dartmouth Dual Degree Program in Engineering, this astronomy, physics, and engineering major does more than study the stars and planets. He plans to one day travel to them. Read More …

The Representative

Later this month, Alfonso Lopez '92 will make history when he's inaugurated as the first Latino/a Democratic delegate in the history of the Virginia General Assembly. With a 400-year history dating to 1619, it is the oldest continuous law-making body in the New World. Read More …

Meet the Chinese Southern Belle

“Ni Hao, y’all!” With her signature greeting, Natalie Keng ’90—also known as the Chinese Southern Belle—uses food as a bridge to build cultural awareness, sharing her Taiwanese and Asian heritage with the Georgia South where she was born and raised. Read More …

January 2012


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