Students

Veteran Francisco Andrade ’22

Three military veterans and a member of a military family talked about how their experiences in and out of the military had shaped their lives at an event titled “Service after Service” hosted by the Vassar Veterans Association.

three standing people behind a table talking animatedly and writing things down on pads

Lauding the success of a five-year experiment known as the Engaged Pluralism Initiative, President Elizabeth H. Bradley has announced the program will continue as an integral part of the campus culture.

Student standing in front of a poster explaining it while gesticulating to a group of people off camera

Students, faculty, and administrators who took part in the 2022 Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI) celebrated their research projects at URSI’s annual Symposium.

Christopher Unruh ’23 wearing navy blue patterned shirt, gray shorts and tan sandals and Chase Engel ’23 wearing gray and white patterned shirt, orange pants and brown sandals holding a document with immigrants’ legal rights in front of the doors of a  Goodwill store.

Vassar students in Hawaii developed resources to help immigrants there acclimate themselves to their new communities. Meanwhile, a student from Kenya secured funding for new water systems for schools in a Kenyan village. Both initiatives were funded through the 100 Projects for Peace program.

Interior of Chapel with the audience for Convocation

Convocation officially kicked off the academic year on August 31. The Convocation address, “How I Got Medieval: From First Gen to PhD,” was delivered by Professor of History Nancy Bisaha.

John Murphy, the Loeb’s curator of prints and drawings, and Ford Scholar Carissa Kolcun pose with 11033, an artist’s book that chronicles the story of Mary Morst, who gave birth to twins while she was incarcerated in a Virginia prison in 1913.

Ford Scholar Carissa Kolcun’s keen interest in the works of art created at the Women’s Studio Workshop will be on display this fall at an exhibition they curated in the Loeb’s Spotlight Gallery.