Stories

Jun. 22, 2021

Students in Assistant Professor of Art Christopher Platts’ Art 218 class collaborated with the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center to spotlight the design of the Alumnae House living room by artist Violet Oakley.

May. 28, 2021

Six participants in the Exodus Transition Community, an agency that provides support services for formerly incarcerated men and women, joined seven Vassar students in an Education Class taught by Associate Professor Erin McCloskey.

May. 26, 2021

More than 50 Vassar students, faculty, and administrators gathered on Zoom to take part in the first ever Grand Challenges Winter Creative Project. Participants built a massive crocheted “coral reef” to demonstrate the need to address climate change.

Apr. 14, 2021

With the class of 1971’s landmark Reunion approaching, Jill Troy Werner ’71 created an Endowment for Research and Teaching on Climate Change and Sustainability, and Mary Price ’71 along her husband, Nick Waser—both of whom are field ecologists—made a gift to support “people and programs” at the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve. These gifts inspired their class to fund the Class of 1971 Gateway to the Old Vassar Farm as its 50th Reunion gift.

Apr. 13, 2021

The 1971 essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” by Professor of Art History Linda Nochlin ’51, which examined the underappreciation of women artists, became required reading for art historians. The College recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the essay and the 70th anniversary of Nochlin’s graduation from Vassar with a three-part tribute.

Mar. 3, 2021

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) recently awarded a $3,000 scholarship to Darling Lupe Garcia ’22, and the funds could not have arrived at a more opportune time.

Mar. 3, 2021

Alexa Mousley ’20 has won a full scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to pursue her PhD in neuroscience at the University of Cambridge.

Jan. 19, 2021

Students in Professor of Geography Mary Ann Cunningham’s introductory Environmental Studies class used government and industry databases to compute annual carbon emissions in five local municipalities.

Jan. 14, 2021

Fifteen Vassar students took part in a collaborative teaching program that matched the students with teachers, most of them Vassar alumnae/i, at public schools throughout the country.

Oct. 21, 2020

President Bradley and a panel of guests discussed the lessons colleges and universities have learned during the COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemic’s implications for the future of higher education globally.

Oct. 9, 2020

More than 75 student volunteers planted 500 trees on a piece of land in Vassar’s Ecological Preserve that had once been used as a dump site.

Oct. 9, 2020

The College’s first-ever virtual Families Weekend featured campus tours, panel discussions, and even fire juggling!

Oct. 7, 2020

A thought-provoking collection of short talks by Vassar faculty on a variety of intriguing topics is now available on demand through the Vassar Classroom Revisited.

Aug. 31, 2020

As a Ford Scholar, self-proclaimed “baseball nut” Alex Eisert spent the summer immersing himself in the world of minor league baseball.

Jul. 31, 2020

More than 30 Poughkeepsie High School students took part in Exploring College and Getting Ready for High School, two programs run by the Vassar College Urban Education Initiative to help prepare community youth for their next academic challenges.

Jul. 16, 2020

International students will no longer be forced to leave the country if they must take online classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jul. 13, 2020

Vassar is supporting a lawsuit that seeks to block ICE from expelling from the United States international students who must take online classes because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jul. 1, 2020

Vassar has developed a plan that will enable students to return to the campus for the fall semester, President Elizabeth Bradley announced.

Jun. 25, 2020

Thanks to a donation from Vassar Trustee Debra Fagel Treyz ’74 and her husband, Jim, scholars from all over the world can now easily gain access to information about Vassar’s Archives and Special Collections.

Jun. 2, 2020

Math students unveil some highly inventive independent research projects over Zoom.