The Alumnae/i Association of Vassar College (AAVC) has chosen five alums to honor for their work at Vassar and beyond. They include: two 1982 classmates who have remained devoted to the College for decades; a young alumna excelling in two divergent careers simultaneously; and two distinguished lawyers whose work has taken on particular relevance as threats against basic human rights intensify in the U.S. and around the world.

Ada Ferrer ’84, Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book Cuba: An American History.

More than 1,500 alums, friends, and family members were on campus to celebrate Reunion the weekend of June 3–5. Classes spanned 60 years (1957 to 2017) and Reunion participants hailed from an impressive 44 states and 14 countries—traveling from as far away as Vietnam, China, Iceland, and Switzerland.

Can Vassar be considered an “Olmsted campus?” Associate professor of Art Yvonne Elet and a student, Caleb Mitchell ’22, address that question in an exhibition in Vassar’s Art Library.

A German TV mini-series and documentary based on GIs and Fräuleins, a book published 20 years ago by Professor of History Emerita Maria Höhn, has gained wide acclaim in Germany.

The Goldwater Foundation has awarded a graduate school scholarship to Abigail Whittington ’23 for her research on water pollution.

Six Vassar students have been recognized for their outstanding community service as recipients of the 2022 Helen Miringoff Awards

Forced by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to leave campus in March of their senior year and view their Commencement online, Vassar’s class of 2020 returned for an in-person ceremony complete with a presidential conferring of degrees and a hat toss!

Six Vassar alums have been awarded three-year research fellowships by the National Science Foundation