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From Classroom to Careers

Students got advice and support from alum and parent mentors in a variety of fields to jump-start plans for their post-Vassar lives during Vassar’s Sophomore Career Connections, a three-day event hosted by the offices of Career Education and Advancement.

New Opera Celebrates Legendary Vassar Professor Who Reached for the Stars

Astronomer Maria Mitchell is the subject of a very special performance taking place on campus January 23–25 at the Martel Theater as part of MODfest, Vassar’s annual celebration of the arts.

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Ethan Slater Comes Back to Vassar

While on campus to receive the AAVC’s Young Alum Achievement Award, Ethan Slater ’14, who portrayed the lead in SpongeBob SquarePants and Boq in Wicked, talked to students and others in the Vassar community about his career as a performer.

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Beth Greenwood Selected in Third Round in Inaugural Women’s Pro Baseball League Draft

History in the making! This marks the first time that women’s professional baseball players have heard their names called in a draft by one of the league’s four founding teams.

Vassar Alumni produced and edited film Jane Elliott Against The World to premier at Sundance

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Vassar’s Community Works Campaign: Funding Critical Services Across the Hudson Valley

Vassar’s Community Works campaign is raising essential funds for ten local agencies providing housing, food assistance, immigrant support, restorative justice programs, LGBTQ youth services, and more. With government funding declining, donations are vital to sustaining these community resources.

New Grant for the Loeb for Important Painting Conservation

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center has secured a grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation for the conservation of “Lyric,” a 1951 oil on canvas by the late American artist Joan Mitchell (1925–1992).

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Terrence Cullen and Rupinder Kaur of French and Francophone Studies Awarded Albertine Foundation Support for Vassar Film Festival

Terrence Cullen, Visiting Assistant Professor, and Rupinder Kaur, Assistant Professor—both from French and Francophone Studies—received an Albertine Cinémathèque Festival Grant for Vassar’s 2025–2026 French film festival. Organized around the theme of “art and artifice,” the festival will introduce students and the community to French cinema and create opportunities for intellectual exchange.

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Local Grantmaker Supports Wimpfheimer Playground Fundraiser

The Dyson Foundation awarded a grant to the Wimpfheimer’s playground equipment fund drive, which in summer 2025 raised more than $40,000 from Wimpfheimer families and friends.