News and Events News & Events All News In the Media Events Press Releases Featured Videos Members of the Vassar community are always making news! Find the latest media mentions of alums, students, faculty, and other employees right here. In the Media Dara Greenwood, Associate Professor of Psychological Science, wrote a Psychology Today article about how social media fuels body modification. NPR highlighted data scientist Michael Donnelly ’07’s role in providing crucial information about COVID-19 breakthrough cases to the CDC. Katherine Hite, Professor of Political Science on the F. Thompson Chair and Director of Research Development, challenges the dominant story of her home state of Texas in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America. Frances “Sissy” Farenthold ’46, P’75, former Texas state legislator and AAVC Distinguished Achievement Award winner, was profiled in the Texas Observer. Hamilton actor Paul Stovall was interviewed on WAMC about a Celebrating the African Spirit event co-sponsored by Vassar College at which he performs parts of Fredrick Douglass’s 1858 speech in Poughkeepsie. Benjamin Ho, author and Associate Professor of Economics, was quoted at length in the New Yorker article “Are Americans More Trusting Than They Seem?” The Poughkeepsie Journal previewed Hamilton actor Paul Oakley Stovall’s reenactment of abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s 1858 speech at College Hill—an event co-sponsored by Vassar College. In an op-ed published by the Brookings Institution, President Elizabeth H. Bradley argues that colleges can do a lot more to help students graduate. TechCrunch highlighted the accomplishments of Anu Duggal ’01 and her Female Founders Fund, which provides seed capital to tech companies and lifestyle brands founded by women. View More Items
Dara Greenwood, Associate Professor of Psychological Science, wrote a Psychology Today article about how social media fuels body modification.
NPR highlighted data scientist Michael Donnelly ’07’s role in providing crucial information about COVID-19 breakthrough cases to the CDC.
Katherine Hite, Professor of Political Science on the F. Thompson Chair and Director of Research Development, challenges the dominant story of her home state of Texas in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America.
Frances “Sissy” Farenthold ’46, P’75, former Texas state legislator and AAVC Distinguished Achievement Award winner, was profiled in the Texas Observer.
Hamilton actor Paul Stovall was interviewed on WAMC about a Celebrating the African Spirit event co-sponsored by Vassar College at which he performs parts of Fredrick Douglass’s 1858 speech in Poughkeepsie.
Benjamin Ho, author and Associate Professor of Economics, was quoted at length in the New Yorker article “Are Americans More Trusting Than They Seem?”
The Poughkeepsie Journal previewed Hamilton actor Paul Oakley Stovall’s reenactment of abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s 1858 speech at College Hill—an event co-sponsored by Vassar College.
In an op-ed published by the Brookings Institution, President Elizabeth H. Bradley argues that colleges can do a lot more to help students graduate.
TechCrunch highlighted the accomplishments of Anu Duggal ’01 and her Female Founders Fund, which provides seed capital to tech companies and lifestyle brands founded by women.