Students

A local Buddhist teacher and cleric came to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center this month to bless an exhibition of Tibetan art.

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.

Workshops on “Undoing Racism” spawned the formation of AREJ (Anti-Racism, Equity and Justice), an organization that spurs dialog on race on the campus and in the surrounding community.

Vassar has earned a Gold Seal from Civic Nation’s ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge for high student-voter turnout in the 2020 election.

Vassar College has received a $156,000 grant from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation that will fund faculty-mentored research projects conducted by six students over the next three years.

As Vassar geared up for the start of the Spring Semester,  the College had protocols in place to ensure the safety of everyone on campus.

For the 32nd year, the Office of Community-Engaged Learning collected toys, books and other gifts from members of the Vassar community for migrant farmworkers’ children.

Thanks to a gift given in memory of an alumna, a computer-generated music box called a digital carillon serenades the campus twice a day.

Two Vassar student-athletes, Andrew Goldsmith ’22 and Jake Kaplan ’22, will compete in the 21st Maccabiah Games next summer in Israel. They will join more than 10,000 other Jewish athletes from 85 countries at the event.