Can Vassar be considered an “Olmsted campus?” Associate professor of Art Yvonne Elet and a student, Caleb Mitchell ’22, address that question in an exhibition in Vassar’s Art Library.
A German TV mini-series and documentary based on GIs and Fräuleins, a book published 20 years ago by Professor of History Emerita Maria Höhn, has gained wide acclaim in Germany.
Led by the Black Students’ Union, members of the Vassar community gathered on a chilly April afternoon to dedicate the Garden to Celebrate Black Lives on the Vassar campus.
Five members of Vassar’s Engaged Pluralism community co-taught a course on storytelling called “Communities Are Critical.” The multimedia exhibit that was created by the class is on display in the Campus Center.
Vassar students, faculty and alums gathered on campus—and virtually—on April 2 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the College’s Neuroscience program. But the event was also a celebration of how Vassar’s liberal arts curriculum empowers its students to approach science in a multidisciplinary way.
The family of the late renowned architectural historian and Vassar Associate Professor of Art Andrew Tallon has donated his research and teaching materials, correspondence, and other materials to the College’s Archives and Special Collections Library.
Students enrolled in Earth Science and Science Technology and Society 323, “History of Geological Thought,” visited several venues in the United Kingdom to gain insights into how the science of geology began.
Vassar alumna Jane Baker Nord ’42 has made a $3-million gift to the College to endow a new Chair in Media Studies, President Elizabeth H. Bradley announced.
In Associate professor Molly McGlennen’s course, Women’s Studies 262: Native American Women,” students are examining the impact of colonization on Native American nations through the brutal and intentional subjugation of Native women over the past 400 years.
