College Leadership and Faculty Address Campus Israeli-Palestinian Issues
More than 930 alumnae/i and parents joined in a webcast on February 25 to listen to President Catharine Hill, Chair of Vassar's Board of Trustees Bill Plapinger '74, AAVC President Missie Rennie Taylor '68, and six faculty members and administrators discuss current issues and tensions on campus related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Listen to the webcast here. Read More …
Whitney Donhauser '89 Takes Reins of NYC Museum
Whitney Donhauser ’89 was named director and president of the Museum of the City of New York, taking the reins from fellow Vassar alumna Susan Henshaw Jones ’69. The museum recently underwent a $97 million renovation and has plans for a new long-term exhibition on the history of New York City. Read More …
Kate Dooley ’06: Helping Prove Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
Kate Dooley ’06, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Mississippi, is an experimental gravitational wave physicist and member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration, whose recent discovery proved the existence of gravitational waves. Read More …
The BBC Show Great American Railroad Journeys Visits Vassar
Episode five of the BBC documentary series Great American Railroad Journeys includes a visit to Vassar College. While on campus, host Michael Portillo interviews astronomy professor Debra Elmegreen about the observatory and one of our more famous faculty members, Maria Mitchell. Read More …
