In a discussion about legacy admission, Vassar College was acknowledged for its economically diverse student body in the recent New York Times podcast The Daily.

President Elizabeth Bradley wrote a Forbes article, “Exposure To Uncomfortable Ideas Is Key For Growth In Higher Education But Order Of Operations Is Key.”

Tiana Headley ’22 wrote the Bloomberg Law article “Color of Justice: All-White Benches Persist in US District Courts.”

The memoir of author MB Caschetta ’88, A Cheerleader’s Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, was the subject of an Advocate story. The book also won a 2023 Memoir Book Prize from Memoir Magazine.

Computer pioneer Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, class of 1928, was the subject of an Edvocate story, “Teaching Students About Grace Hopper’s Trailblazing Journey in Computing.”

Nora Underwood ’88 and her family were the subjects of a Colorado Sun article, “How one family is carrying on generations-long ecological research near Crested Butte.”

Dr. Zoe Adams ’15 wrote the Washington Post op-ed “The Nixon-era roots of today’s opioid crisis.”

Adjunct Artist in Music Yves Dhar describes battling a holographic AI cellist onstage in an article for Chamber Music America.

Great Dane Brewing co-founders Rob LoBreglio ’88 and Eliot Butler ’90 discussed their business expansion in Japan in Madison Magazine.

Tenants’ rights lawyer and New York City Planning Commission member Leah Goodridge ’04 was the subject of a New York Amsterdam News story.

Andrea McCarren ’85, Vice President of PenFed Credit Union Digital, has been promoted to Senior Vice President of PenFed Digital and President of PenFed Foundation, as noted by CityBiz.

Astronomer Maria Mitchell, Vassar’s first professor, was the subject of a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story.

Selwa Roosevelt ’50, a journalist, writer, and Chief of Protocol of the United States, was the subject of an Arab America story.

Alice Ramsey, class of 1907, the first woman to drive across the U.S. in an automobile, was the subject of a Yahoo! story.

Fiona Shen-Bayh ’11 received the 2023 American Political Science Association’s Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award for Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts, as noted by Political Science Now.

Andrew Fiss ’05, Associate Professor of Technical & Professional Communication at Michigan Tech, has been awarded “Best Book In Technical or Scientific Communication” for Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom by the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Photos: Courtesy of the subjects.

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