Campus Calendar
Today’s Events
- Lacrosse (M) vs. SUNY Farmingdale
- 4:00PM to 7:30PM - Prentiss Sports Complex Gordon Competition Field
- Lacrosse (W) vs. SUNY Oneonta
- 6:00PM to 8:30PM - Prentiss Sports Complex Weinberg Turf Field
News & Highlights
- Over spring break, follow the Brewers as they compete across the U.S. and abroad (3/4 - 21).
- Douglas Rediker '81 confirmed by Senate as U.S. Alternate Executive Director to the IMF Board.
- Vassar professor and young alumnus co-author article in leading math journal.
- Anthropologist Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney examines the use of symbolism and national identity (3/22).
- Celebrate the 25th annual John Iyoya Children’s Art Show at the Palmer Gallery (3/21 - 27).
- Listen to film professor Mia Mask compare Repo Man to health care reform in review on NPR. (3/19-21)
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Headlines
"Dancing Across Borders," a documentary film that chronicles a young man’s journey from Cambodia to ballet stages in the United States, will be screened on March 31, 2010.
The documentary film Dancing Across Borders, about a young man’s journey from Cambodia to life as a professional ballet dancer in the United States, will be screened at Vassar College on Wednesday, March 31. Free and open to the public, the screening will begin at 4:00 pm in the Rosenwald Film Theater of the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film. The film’s director and producer Anne Bass, a graduate of the Vassar College class of 1963, will appear at the screening and discuss the film.
Vassar College Entertainment presents The Flaming Lips at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center, April 17, 2010. Tickets on sale now.
On Saturday, April 17, at 7:00pm Vassar College Entertainment (ViCE) presents the Grammy-winning alternative rock band The Flaming Lips at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, NY. Special guests will be announced. General admission tickets of $35 are now on sale to the public and are available through TicketWeb (http://www.ticketweb.com).
Mathematician Günter M. Ziegler shares new proofs and insights for classical mathematical problems on April 7, 2010.
Günter M. Ziegler, professor of mathematics at Technische Universität (TU) in Berlin, will present the annual Asprey Lecture in Mathematics at Vassar College on Wednesday, April 7. The lecture, free and open to the public, will begin at 5:00pm in Rockefeller Hall (room 300), and will be preceded by a reception at 4:30pm.
Medievalist Virginia Blanton will discuss “Repackaging Female Saints’ Lives for the 15th-Century English Nun” on April 9, 2010.
Medievalist Virginia Blanton will discuss “Repackaging Female Saints’ Lives for the 15th-Century English Nun” on Friday, April 9 at Vassar College. Free and open to the public, the talk will begin at 4:00 pm in Taylor Hall, Room 203.
Film screening of "William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe" on April 2, presented in conjunction with annual Green Haven Prison Program Reunion on April 3, 2010.
The Africana Studies Program and the Film Department of Vassar College will present a screening of the documentary film William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe on Friday, April 2, at 7:00 pm in Sanders Hall Spitzer Auditorium (room 212). The filmmakers, sisters Emily and Sarah Kunstler, will discuss making this documentary about their famous father. In conjunction with the screening, the 31st annual Green Haven Prison Program Reunion will take place on Saturday, April 3, in the Aula of Ely Hall. From 1:30 to 5:30pm, there will be public events including a panel discussion as well as workshops on prison issues.
April events at Vassar benefit the people of Haiti: the ninth annual Art Sale & Auction, April 9-11, and a benefit concert, April 24, 2010.
This April two special events at Vassar College will benefit the people of Haiti. The ninth annual Haitian Art Sale and Auction will take place from April 9 to 11, with a preview exhibition April 4 to 7. A benefit concert, “Harmony and Hope: A Musical Bridge to Haiti,” to support the rebuilding of the Holy Trinity Music School in Port-au-Prince, will be held on April 24, 2010.
Vassar professor and young alumnus co-author article in leading math journal.
Associate professor Natalie Priebe Frank and recent Vassar alumnus Sean Hart co-author article in leading mathematics journal, American Mathematical Monthly.
Curtis Kamman, the former U.S. Ambassador to Chile, Bolivia, and Colombia, to discuss U.S. policy in Latin America on April 19, 2010.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Chile, Bolivia, and Colombia Curtis Kamman will explore U.S. policy in Latin America in a lecture entitled “Celebrating 200 Years of Gringo Diplomacy” at Vassar College on Monday, April 19. The event, which will begin at 7:00 pm in Rockefeller Hall, room 300, is free and open to the public.
Twenty-fifth annual Iyoya exhibit at Vassar celebrates local children’s art, March 21 - 27, 2010.
More than 200 works of art by local nursery, elementary, and intermediate school students will be on display in “A Celebration of Children’s Art," on view from Sunday, March 21 through Saturday, March 27. Vassar College’s 25th annual John Iyoya Children’s Art Show will be shown in the James W. Palmer III Gallery on the first floor of Vassar's historic Main Building, with a public reception on March 21 beginning at 2:00pm. The gallery will be open Monday through Saturday from 11:00am to 6:00pm. All events are free and open to the public.
Anthropologist Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney examines symbolism and national identity from a cross-cultural perspective on March 22, 2010.
Anthropologist Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney will discuss “Japanese Cherry Blossoms and the Roses of European Dictators” in a lecture at Vassar College on Monday, March 22, 2010. Free and open to the public, the program will begin at 5:30 pm in Taylor Hall, room 203.
