Bryan Ruby ’19, the first professional baseball player to publicly announce he is gay, returned to Vassar to thank the Vassar community for the support he received while he was here.
Thanks to a gift from Mary Hyde Ottoway ’59 and her husband, James, a labyrinth, a component of contemplation practices for centuries, has been built outside Pratt House.
Ever since he became interested in a legal career, Elias Kim ’16 has aspired to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Just three years out of law school, Kim has landed a government fellowship that will enable him to work with attorneys who specialize in such cases.
The American Academy of Religion has established the Lawrence H. Mamiya Excellence in Public Service Award that honors the legacy of the late Professor of Religion and Africana Studies Lawrence Mamiya, who taught at Vassar for more than 35 years.
Vassar’s 20th annual MODfest promises to be a kaleidoscope of visual arts, music, and dance that reflects on the intersection of artistic performance and social justice.
Katherine Yungmee Kim ’93 used her 2013 Time Out Grant from Vassar to conduct interviews along Korea's Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) for her limited-edition art book, Longitude.
In 2020, the College launched Generation Vassar—a friendly, month-long competition among Vassar alums to see which class could achieve the highest participation rates in giving to the Vassar Fund. Some 3,100 alum donors contributed more than $1.3 million. A vital factor in this success was an army of alums who encouraged their classmates to give. As his year’s Generation Vassar challenge approaches, we highlight a few of our unsung fundraising heroes.
For just the third time in its history, Vassar has a Rhodes Scholar. Tonia Williams ’21, currently a master’s degree student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has been selected to pursue a PhD in experimental psychology at Oxford University in the fall.
Throughout 2021, the College has celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Alumnae/i Association of Vassar College by highlighting a few of Vassar’s most notable alums. The series concludes with this profile of Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu.
