The two most recent appointees to Vassar’s Board of Trustees, Jennifer Haas ’94 and Delia Cheung Hom ’00, bring some unique talents and backgrounds to their new posts.

Renowned African historian Dr. Michael Gomez told a Vassar audience the continent’s medieval history can serve as a lesson for modern day nations.

In her 2015 Peabody-award-winning documentary, How to Dance in Ohio, Alexandra Shiva ’95  introduced viewers to a group of autistic teens participating a formal dance for the first time. At the end of 2023, almost nine years after the film premiered, How to Dance in Ohio, the stage production, opened on Broadway.

Three new administrators are collaborating to enhance and advance the goals of Engaged Pluralism on campus.

At 98 years old, Jan Farrington ’46, née Gucker, spends her summers where she has since she was in utero: at Camp Whippoorwill in the northeastern Adirondacks.

Vassar College will celebrate Black History Month with a series of events and activities, starting with a pair of kickoff events on February 1.

Two Vassar alums are studying in China as recipients of one of the most competitive post-graduate fellowships in the world, the Schwarzman Scholarship.

President Elizabeth Bradley welcomed new Poughkeepsie Mayor Yvonne Flowers, Town Supervisor (and Vassar history professor on leave) Rebecca Edwards, and others to reflect on the Legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at a campus gathering.