In the Media Members of the Vassar community are always making news! Find the latest media mentions of alums, students, faculty, and other employees right here. MODfest 2025 Co-Directors Drew Minter and Thomas Sauer, both Music Department faculty members, preview Vassar’s upcoming arts festival on WAMC. The Washington Post says the new novel by Adam Ross ’89 “is so good, it will give readers hope for the year ahead.” History Professor Lydia Murdoch was interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine about an art exhibition that reflects women’s evolving roles in Victorian society. In an opinion essay for the New York Times, New York City Planning Commissioner Leah Goodridge ’04 points out the impracticality of having only 1,000 public restrooms for the city’s 8.3 million residents. Assistant Professor of Astronomy Ed Buie spoke to History about how scientists discovered the universe was expanding. Sociology Professor Catherine Tan wrote a Time magazine op-ed titled “Why People Believe Trump and RFK Jr.’s Dangerous and Debunked Claims about Vaccines and Autism” Stellene Volandes ’93, Editor in Chief of Town & Country magazine, was lauded in a New York Times Business Section article for revitalizing the 178-year-old magazine. The Guggenheim Foundation paid tribute to the late Violet Barbour, a Vassar history professor who in 1925 became the first woman to receive a Guggenheim fellowship. Twentieth-Century China features an interview with Professor Yu-chi Chang, discussing his article titled “Leaves, Silkworms, Yue Fei: Ways of Imagining the Territory in 1930s China.” View More Items
MODfest 2025 Co-Directors Drew Minter and Thomas Sauer, both Music Department faculty members, preview Vassar’s upcoming arts festival on WAMC.
The Washington Post says the new novel by Adam Ross ’89 “is so good, it will give readers hope for the year ahead.”
History Professor Lydia Murdoch was interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine about an art exhibition that reflects women’s evolving roles in Victorian society.
In an opinion essay for the New York Times, New York City Planning Commissioner Leah Goodridge ’04 points out the impracticality of having only 1,000 public restrooms for the city’s 8.3 million residents.
Assistant Professor of Astronomy Ed Buie spoke to History about how scientists discovered the universe was expanding.
Sociology Professor Catherine Tan wrote a Time magazine op-ed titled “Why People Believe Trump and RFK Jr.’s Dangerous and Debunked Claims about Vaccines and Autism”
Stellene Volandes ’93, Editor in Chief of Town & Country magazine, was lauded in a New York Times Business Section article for revitalizing the 178-year-old magazine.
The Guggenheim Foundation paid tribute to the late Violet Barbour, a Vassar history professor who in 1925 became the first woman to receive a Guggenheim fellowship.
Twentieth-Century China features an interview with Professor Yu-chi Chang, discussing his article titled “Leaves, Silkworms, Yue Fei: Ways of Imagining the Territory in 1930s China.”