The exhibition of postcards from award-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop ’35 at the Thompson Memorial Library was the subject of a WAMC story, featuring Ron Patkus, Vassar Historian and Head of Special Collections. It was also featured in the Paris Review and New York Review of Books.

Author and ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl ’90 was a guest on Preet Bharara’s podcast, Stay Tuned with Preet.

How to Dance in Ohio, a Broadway showed featuring Imani Russell ’18 and based on a documentary by Alexandra Shiva ’95, was the subject of a TheaterMania story.

Computer pioneer Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, class of 1928, was the subject of a Medium story.

Three new hires at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Jessica D. Brier, Curator of Photography, Azra Dawood, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programs, and Monique D’Almeida, Deknatel Curatorial Fellow in Japanese Works on Paper, were the subjects of a WIA Report article.

John Long, Professor of Biology and Professor and Chair of Cognitive Science on the John Guy Vassar Chair, was quoted in a Scientific American story, “Robotics ‘Revives’ a Long-Extinct Starfish Ancestor.”

Jeremy Robinson-Leon ’07, founder and owner of Moonburger, was quoted in a Journal News article about six restaurants in the Hudson Valley to visit in 2024.

Shaken, a film director by Asher Levinthal ’08, was featured at DOC NYC.

Charlotte Gullick and Dean Wendy Maragh Taylor wrote about the importance of supporting community college transfer students and our Exploring Transfer Together program in an Inside Higher Ed opinion essay.

Neil Buchanan ’81, an economist and tax law scholar, left a tenured professor at the University of Florida to teach in Toronto because of a hostility toward professors and higher education in the state under Gov. Ron DeSantis, as noted by the New York Times.

Professor Emeritus of English Frank Bergon talked with KJZZ about how grammar could help people to better understand the 2nd Amendment.

Marie Solis ’15 has joined the New York Times as a Styles Editor.

Permission, a memoir by Joan Ellis ’51, was the subject of a Two River Times story.

Naoko Takahatake ’99, the newly appointed Director and Chief Curator of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at UCLA’s Hammer Museum, was the subject of a Daily Bruin story.

Tony Award-winning actor Frances Sternhagen ’51 was remembered by the New York Times.

Tom Webb ’87, former director of Newport Visual Arts Center, was remembered by Oregon Artswartch.

Ellen H. “Ellie” Kelly ’51, a Baltimore civic leader, was remembered by the Baltimore Sun.

Laurel F. McGiffert ’70, Plunkett Cooney’s Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, was named by Crain’s Detroit Business* as one of its Notable Leaders in DEI.

Fashion influencer Albert Muzquiz ’17 was mentioned in a Glossy* story about men’s fashion influencers and resellers.

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Photos: Karl, courtesy of ABC News; Maragh Taylor, Karl Rabe; Takahatake, courtesy of the Hammer Museum.

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