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29 Hours of Giving, a Year of Possibilities for Vassar Athletes

Since 2017, Vassar’s Athletics Day of Giving has raised more than $3 million, funding everything from training and nutrition to team travel—including trips to Greece and California—and experiences that strengthen bonds on and off the field.

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Time Out Grant Recipient to Explore Trauma and Journalism

Drawing on interviews, archival footage, and his own experiences, Time Out Grant 2026 recipient Gilad Thaler ’13 will examine how journalists navigate the emotional demands of covering traumatic stories and how news organizations can better understand and address the effects of secondary traumatic stress.

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Shedding Light on Dark Matter

Visiting scientist Sandrine Thomas updated the Vassar community on operations at the amazing new observatory named for renowned astronomer Vera C. Rubin ’48.

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At The Preserve, a Day of Service Carries a Vassar Legacy Forward

Vassar students joined the Student Conservation Association (SCA) to restore trails and habitat at The Preserve, honoring the victims of 9/11 while carrying forward the vision of SCA founder Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam ’55.

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Vassar Ford Scholars Program Nourishes Rich Student-Faculty Collaboration

This summer, 22 students explored everything from medieval samurai diaries to human rights as part of the Ford Scholars Program—a unique opportunity Vassar offers students to work closely with faculty mentors on research in the social sciences and humanities.

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Vassar Welcomes New Tenure-Track Faculty Members at the Start of the Academic Year

Seven scholars in seven academic disciplines have just joined Vassar’s tenure-track faculty. Welcome to campus!

Louis Römer, Lecturer in Anthropology, Awarded a Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and the Black Experiences

Louis Römer, Lecturer in Anthropology, has been awarded a Wenner-Gren Fellowship to complete his book project, Strategic Ambiguities: Race, Class, and Populism on the Caribbean Airwaves. The ethnographic research informing this project was also funded by Wenner-Gren.

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Vassar Receives New Capacity-Building Grant from the Educating Character Initiative

Wendy Maragh Taylor, Associate Dean of the College for Student Growth and Engagement, and Leora Gansworth, Assistant Professor of Native American Studies, are the co-project leads for a new Capacity-Building Grant from the Educating Character Initiative (ECI), a project of The Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University. ECI offers these Capacity-Building Grants to “provide institutions with the time, resources, and support to discern how character education works best in their context.”

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Vassar Receives New Grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation for a Study and Showcase

A team of Vassar College researchers, headed by President Elizabeth H. Bradley, have secured a grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation for a “Study and Showcase on Institutional Equity, College Completion, and Subsequent Earnings.”