Faculty

Faculty members from more than 20 colleges and universities attended a weeklong workshop at Vassar on the teaching of the Bayesian method of statistics to undergraduates.

Sixteen students from a variety of science disciplines and two faculty members spent two weeks conducting a wide variety of research projects.

Students and faculty at Vassar and other local colleges have begun training on Vassar’s new $1-million confocal microscope, acquired with a grant from the National Science Foundation.

At this year’s Commencement ceremony, more than 550 graduating seniors were celebrated for their resilience—the class matriculated at the dawn of COVID. British actor and filmmaker Emily Mortimer offered inspiring words to the graduates.

Vassar’s Inclusive History project, an initiative launched last year to tell the College’s story more fully and honestly, has been gaining some momentum lately.

As classes drew to a close this semester, members of the faculty gathered in the Class of 1951 Reading Room to celebrate each other’s scholarly work.

Students enrolled in Professor of Biology Kate Susman’s Human Physiology class learned real-life applications to their work by volunteering for four community-based organizations.

Students, faculty, and administrators gathered recently in Thompson Library for a symposium sponsored by the Vassar Environmental Research Institute, where they shared ideas on ways to combat climate change.

Vassar alum Rachel Simmons ’96 has had a winding career path—and she came to Vassar to tell students that’s OK.