News and Events Home All News Vassar Everywhere Events Press Releases Featured Videos Vassar Everywhere The BBC hailed the arrival of Google’s new “massive” undersea communications cable named for Grace Hopper ’28—the late professor, naval officer, and computer pioneer. Sherrilyn Ifill ’84, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, has been named to the 2021 TIME100, Time magazine’s annual list of the world’s most influential people. Discover magazine highlighted research by Professor of Psychological Science Randolph Cornelius that can help explain why humans are the only animals that cry. Port magazine interviewed Caleb Stein ’17 and Andrea Orejarena ’17 about their artistic collaboration, what it’s like to work with one’s “other half,” and how they met as first-year students at Vassar. In the Washington Post, Kelly J. Shannon ’03 lays out a blueprint for how the United States can continue to support Afghan women’s rights. Taneisha Means, Assistant Professor of Political Science on the Class of 1951 Chair, spoke to the Highlands Current about the importance of making police forces more diverse. Amitava Kumar, Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair, talked with Publishers Weekly about his latest book, A Time Outside This Time. Vox explains how astronomer Vera Rubin ’48 “grew from a young researcher whose bold ideas were initially ignored into the kind of scientist who could change an entire field.” Dara Greenwood, Associate Professor of Psychological Science, wrote a Psychology Today article about how social media fuels body modification. View More Items
The BBC hailed the arrival of Google’s new “massive” undersea communications cable named for Grace Hopper ’28—the late professor, naval officer, and computer pioneer.
Sherrilyn Ifill ’84, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, has been named to the 2021 TIME100, Time magazine’s annual list of the world’s most influential people.
Discover magazine highlighted research by Professor of Psychological Science Randolph Cornelius that can help explain why humans are the only animals that cry.
Port magazine interviewed Caleb Stein ’17 and Andrea Orejarena ’17 about their artistic collaboration, what it’s like to work with one’s “other half,” and how they met as first-year students at Vassar.
In the Washington Post, Kelly J. Shannon ’03 lays out a blueprint for how the United States can continue to support Afghan women’s rights.
Taneisha Means, Assistant Professor of Political Science on the Class of 1951 Chair, spoke to the Highlands Current about the importance of making police forces more diverse.
Amitava Kumar, Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair, talked with Publishers Weekly about his latest book, A Time Outside This Time.
Vox explains how astronomer Vera Rubin ’48 “grew from a young researcher whose bold ideas were initially ignored into the kind of scientist who could change an entire field.”
Dara Greenwood, Associate Professor of Psychological Science, wrote a Psychology Today article about how social media fuels body modification.