Faculty

Vassar’s 14th annual robotics competition featured a modified version of Harry Potter’s favorite game, Quidditch.

Debra Elmegreen, Professor of Astronomy on the Maria Mitchell Chair, has been elected to the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, Martin Luther King Jr.—and Maria Mitchell herself.

Students in a Medieval and Renaissance Studies Class spent a morning hurling balls of clay at a kiddie pool, learning the workings of a medieval weapon, a trebuchet.

Professor of Psychological Science Debra Zeifman talks about her appointment as Dean of Studies.

Vassar College to launch a summer program for gifted high school students in Beijing, China, in partnership with a Beijing-based education organization. Three faculty members will teach courses there this summer.

A year after being named Interim Dean of the College, Carlos Alamo-Pastrana talks about his goals as he assumes the post permanently.

As attention is drawn to Vassar’s “scandal” in 1897, two Vassar faculty members have decided it’s time to take a scholarly look at “passing.”

Shona Tucker, Associate Professor and Chair of the Drama Department, tells us what it’s like to be in the hottest show on Broadway—To Kill a Mockingbird. But Tucker is not the sole member of the cast who is part of the Vassar community.

The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded a $331,000 grant to Assistant Professor Psychological Science Bojana Zupan to continue her research into the possible causes of autism and similar disorders.