Vassar Celebrates Families Weekend
Vassar students, family members, and friends spent three beautiful days celebrating Families Weekend with events all over campus. Beginning Friday, Sept. 28, Families Weekend visitors enjoyed dozens of activities, including campus and Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center tours, receptions, the Vassar Haiti Project Art Sale and Auction, the Arlington Street Fair, athletic competitions, and more. Enjoy the Families Weekend photo gallery! Read More …
Vassar Receives $2.5M Mellon Foundation Grant
Starting this fall, Vassar will lead a four-college consortium focusing on the global refugee crisis, thanks to a $2.5-million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement and Education. Read More …
A Conservation Legend Gets Her Own Tree
Members of the Student Conservation Association had a surprise for the founder of their organization, Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam ’55. During Vassar’s annual Day of Service at the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve, they planted a tree in her honor. Read More …
Professor Elmegreen Chosen to Lead Worldwide Astronomy Group
Debra M. Elmegreen, Professor of Astronomy on the Maria Mitchell Chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been elected by her peers to lead the largest international organization of astronomers in the world— the International Astronomical Union. Read More …
