- Powerhouse adds an additional workshop performance of the new indie rock musical Murder Ballad on Sun, 7/29, at 7:30pm.
Announcement Posted 07/25/2012
- Vassar & New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater wraps up its 28th season with an amazing weekend of new plays and musicals.
Announcement Posted 07/24/2012
- Tony nominees Daniel Breaker and Will Swenson & Dee Roscioli and Rebecca Naomi Jones in cast of the Powerhouse Theater workshop of Murder Ballad (7/27-29).
Announcement Posted 07/16/2012
- Denise Burse, Harriett D. Foy, Lynda Gravatt, Nikiya Mathis, Dennis Parlato, Saycon Sengbloh, and Tracie Thoms cast in Powerhouse Theater's workshop of “The House That Will Not Stand” (7/20-22).
Announcement Posted 07/13/2012
- CERN physicists, including alumna Sau Lan Wu '63, announce that they may have discovered the "God Particle."
Announcement Posted 07/04/2012
- Interview with Debra Elmegreen in Astronomy Magazine
Announcement Posted 07/01/2012
- "The Power of Duff" by Stephen Belber, directed by Peter DuBois, features an ensemble cast including Dominic Fumusa, Greg Kinnear, and Jennifer Westfeldt (7/18-29).
Announcement Posted 06/30/2012
- Exhibition checklist: "Nature in America: Taming the Landscape"
Announcement Posted 06/29/2012
- Vassar & New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater season schedule, 6/22-7/29..
Announcement Posted 06/22/2012
- Powerhouse Theater announces casting for “The Power of Duff” by Stephen Belber, including Dominic Fumusa, Greg Kinnear, Maura Tierney, Jennifer Westfeldt, and more (7/18 - 29)!
Announcement Posted 06/13/2012
- Arlington Farmers' Market opens for the season 6/7. To be open every Thursday through October.
Announcement Posted 06/06/2012
- President Hill meets with U.S Vice President Biden and Education Secretary Duncan to improve financial aid information for students.
Announcement Posted 06/05/2012
- Announcing Powerhouse Theater Season casting highlights, including Tim Daly, Dana Delany, Santino Fontana, La Chanze, Jon Tenney, and more!
Announcement Posted 06/01/2012
- Astronomy professor Debra Elmegreen joins Nobel laureates as American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow.
Announcement Posted 05/29/2012
- Vassar College confers 597 Bachelor’s degrees in its 148th commencement ceremony, May 20, 2012.
Announcement Posted 05/20/2012
- Philosophers gain 0,000 grant to explore role of love in human action.
Announcement Posted 05/15/2012
- Checklist for the Hildegarde Krause Baker, class of 1911, Sculpture Garden.
Announcement Posted 05/10/2012
- Ribbon cutting by Dutchess Chamber of Commerce marks official re-opening of Art Center's re-designed Sculpture Garden, 5/10.
Announcement Posted 05/07/2012
- million grant for faculty support honors Vassar alumna and former college trustee Anne McNiff Tatlock, a Poughkeepsie native.
Announcement Posted 05/04/2012
- Conference assessing 40 years of the Clean Water Act and its impact on the Hudson Valley, 5/7.
Announcement Posted 05/03/2012
- Chloe Sevigny to star in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s "Abigail/1702," (6/27-7/8) the first Powerhouse Theater Mainstage play of the 2012 season.
Announcement Posted 04/30/2012
- Vassar & New York Stage and Film announce the 2012 Powerhouse Theater season, 6/22-7/29. 5/20.
Announcement Posted 04/30/2012
- Spring Convocation Address: "The Accidental Professor" by Steve Rock, Professor of Political Science, 4/25
Announcement Posted 04/27/2012
- Spring Convocation Welcoming Remarks, Catharine Bond Hill, President, 4/25
Announcement Posted 04/27/2012
- Spring Convocation Remarks, Tanay Tatum '12, VSA President, 4/25
Announcement Posted 04/27/2012
- Biorobotics expert and Vassar professor John Long to discuss his widely praised new book "Darwin’s Devices," 5/3.
Announcement Posted 04/24/2012
- Spring Convocation, April 25, 2012
Announcement Posted 04/23/2012
- Vassar is first college to partner with acclaimed Posse Foundation to add veterans to its student body.
Announcement Posted 04/17/2012
- Four Hudson Valley agricultural entrepreneurs honored on Earth Day, 4/22.
Announcement Posted 04/17/2012
- Exhibition checklist: "Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu"
Announcement Posted 04/13/2012
- Widely praised contemporary sculptor El Anatsui to be discussed by noted historian of African art Susan Vogel, 4/24.
Announcement Posted 04/06/2012
- Olympic medalist John Carlos, famed for silent political protest at 1968 summer games, to discuss his life and new memoir, 4/23.
Announcement Posted 04/04/2012
- Free walking tours of Vassar College history to be offered (4/21, 5/5, 5/12, 5/26).
Announcement Posted 04/01/2012
- Palmer Gallery features a series of seven exhibitions on view through 5/20.
Announcement Posted 03/29/2012
- Writer, Marine veteran, actor, director and Vassar alumnus Benjamin Busch to read from his new memoir Dust to Dust, 4/19.
Announcement Posted 03/28/2012
- Pulitzer-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson to discuss black migration from the South, and attend benefit reception for Catharine St. Center, 4/2.
Announcement Posted 03/21/2012
- Contemporary artist David Humphrey to deliver Claflin Lecture (3/27).
Announcement Posted 03/20/2012
- ESPN writer/commentator Jemele Hill to join in panel discussion on sports, gender, and race, 3/28.
Announcement Posted 03/16/2012
- Vladimir Tikhonov to discuss Social Darwinism in East Asia from 1870-1910), 3/19.
Announcement Posted 03/15/2012
- Laura Kuper '07 to discuss new paradigms in the research on LGBT populations, 3/22.
Announcement Posted 03/15/2012
- Monica McWilliams, signator to the Good Friday peace accord, to address “Peace Agreements: Lessons from Northern Ireland and Elsewhere,” 3/26.
Announcement Posted 03/09/2012
- 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee to deliver commencement address, 5/20. Scholarships to be provided to West African students.
Announcement Posted 03/06/2012
- Noted education writer and activist Sam Chaltain to discuss transforming teaching and learning in U.S. schools, 3/29.
Announcement Posted 03/05/2012
- Master printer Craig Zammiello to discuss how contemporary printmaking has evolved, 3/26.
Announcement Posted 03/05/2012
- Annual exhibition at Palmer Gallery to celebrates local children’s art, 3/18-24.
Announcement Posted 03/01/2012
- Mary McCarthy centenary to be marked by library exhibit (3/16-6/4) and special lecture by LA Times columnist Meghan Daum, 3/29.
Announcement Posted 02/28/2012
- Vassar Haiti Project presents 11th annual Haitian Art Sale and Auction, March 30-April 1, 2012.
Announcement Posted 02/27/2012
- Mind the Gap: The Gift of a Vassar Education, 2/23.
Announcement Posted 02/23/2012
- Endowment of Vassar alumna Helen Dixon Kunzelmann to provide scholarship support for students.
Announcement Posted 02/20/2012
- The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center's innovative exhibition Space, Time, and Narrative: Mapping Gothic France now extended through 6/10.
Announcement Posted 02/20/2012
- Anthropologist Nadia Abu El-Haj to address “The Ethics of Choice: Epistemology, Commerce, and the Genetic Historical Self," 2/28.
Announcement Posted 02/17/2012
- Christian Parenti to deliver a lecture entitled "Climate Change and the Geography of Violence," 2/22.
Announcement Posted 02/16/2012
- Power Through Community: A Forum on Latin/Latina/o American Political and Cultural Transformations.
Announcement Posted 02/15/2012
- Environmental leader Joanna Underwood to discuss “Turning Trash to Fuel: Ending Our Country’s Addiction to Oil” at the Vassar Bookstore, 2/20
Announcement Posted 02/14/2012
- Palmer Gallery presents a Vassar student art exhibition, “The House Shaped Hole,” 2/15-3/1.
Announcement Posted 02/14/2012
- Vassar to celebrate Charles Darwin's birthday with two Darwin Days' programs.
Announcement Posted 02/06/2012
- Sweet Honey in the Rock singer Ysaye Barnwell to highlight daylong “Radical Love: Taking Back Valentine’s Day” program, 2/8.
Announcement Posted 02/03/2012
- Best-selling author and comedian Andy Borowitz to deliver Krieger Lecture, 2/21.
Announcement Posted 02/03/2012
- Vassar College students to appear on stage at the Apollo Theater, 2/5.
Announcement Posted 02/02/2012
- The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center presents the exhibition "Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu," 4/13 - 6/17.
Announcement Posted 02/02/2012
- Online or in The Retreat watch the women's basketball team tonight in the NCCA tournament, 2/2
Announcement Posted 02/02/2012
- Acclaimed author Sigrid Nunez, the 2012 Writer-in-Residence at Vassar, to read from her works, 2/8.
Announcement Posted 02/01/2012
- Computing error caused Vassar College website to list erroneous admissions information for some early decision applicants.
Announcement Posted 01/29/2012
- Peace Corps ranks Vassar among the top 20 small colleges whose graduates currently serve in the program.
Announcement Posted 01/27/2012
- Every Vassar physics professor currently supported by a National Science Foundation grant, amidst college's larger success with federal agency.
Announcement Posted 01/24/2012
- Marco Maggi: Lentissimo: a conversation with Mary-Kay Lombino and Marco Maggi
Announcement Posted 01/20/2012
- Exhibition checklist: "Marco Maggi: Lentissimo"
Announcement Posted 01/20/2012
- Robert Bosnak, an author, analyst, and eminent teacher of dream work, to deliver lecture on dreaming, consciousness, and reality, 1/26.
Announcement Posted 01/18/2012
- Powerhouse Theater presents a reading of playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s new work, Abigail/1702, 2/11.
Announcement Posted 01/10/2012
- Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre's 30th annual Bardavon Gala on February 25-26, 2012.
Announcement Posted 01/09/2012
- Sacred Earth Leadership Forum will explore the connections between spirituality and environmentalism, 2/1.
Announcement Posted 01/06/2012
- “Hearts for Haiti” is a two-day art sale collaboration between the Vassar Haiti Project and Convent of the Sacred Heart that will be held in Greenwich (CT), 1/20-1/21.
Announcement Posted 01/06/2012
- Celebrate the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries during the 10th anniversary celebration of Modfest at Vassar College, 1/18 - 2/4.
Announcement Posted 01/05/2012
- Come to the cabaret at Vassar and celebrate tunes of the Great American Songbook during a musical fundraiser, 1/27.
Announcement Posted 01/05/2012
- Teen Visions '12 will be on view at Vassar's Palmer Gallery, 1/19-2/9.
Announcement Posted 12/21/2011
- Comprehensive retrospective exhibition of artists’ books published over 30 years by Women’s Studio Workshop on view at Vassar, 1/18– 3/2.
Announcement Posted 12/21/2011
- The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center presents the solo exhibition "Marco Maggi: Lentissimo," 1/20 – 4/1.
Announcement Posted 12/01/2011
- Vassar's Palmer Gallery presents an exhibition of works by contemporary artist Donise English, 12/1-1/6.
Announcement Posted 11/22/2011
- Vassar College presents the annual “Service of Lessons and Carols” on Sunday, December 4, 2011.
Announcement Posted 11/14/2011
- Vassar College numbers among top U.S. bachelor’s institutions for producing Fulbright recipients in 2011-12.
Announcement Posted 11/14/2011
- Princeton professor Cornel West to discuss poverty, economic inequality and injustice, and social change in the U.S., 11/30.
Announcement Posted 11/14/2011
- VRDT's Final Showings will feature two world premieres by internationally renowned choreographers Larry Keigwin and Edwaard Liang, 11/17-19.
Announcement Posted 11/01/2011
- Vassar College Bookstore Author Series celebrates Veterans Day with “Conversations Across the Generations,” 11/11.
Announcement Posted 11/01/2011
- A Message from the Dean of the College to Students, 10/30
Announcement Posted 10/30/2011
- A Message from the Dean of the College to Students, 10/29
Announcement Posted 10/29/2011
- Three-day Haitian art and handcraft sale at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Fishkill to help to build a clinic in northwest Haiti, 11/4-6.
Announcement Posted 10/21/2011
- Symposium will honor and remember Vassar chemistry professor Curt Beck, an innovator in the analysis of archaeological remains, 10/29
Announcement Posted 10/21/2011
- Three-day conference focuses on unique lesbian, queer, and gender-nonconforming histories Vassar, 11/3-5.
Announcement Posted 10/19/2011
- Renowned educator and author Jonathan Kozol to discuss "Education Under Siege: Race, Poverty, and the Mania of Testing in Our Public Schools," 11/3.
Announcement Posted 10/17/2011
- Historian Jeremy Popkin will discuss the genesis of the 1793 Haitian revolution, 11/7.
Announcement Posted 10/17/2011
- One-day photography exhibition and sale to benefit storm victims in Dutchess, Orange and Ulster Counties, October 22, 2011.
Announcement Posted 10/17/2011
- Actors From The London Stage company to give three performances of “The Tempest” at the Martel Theater, 10/27-29..
Announcement Posted 10/15/2011
- Photographs of Vassar College “Through the Student Lens” at the Palmer Gallery, 10/27–11/22.
Announcement Posted 10/14/2011
- Seven professors are named to endowed chairs
Announcement Posted 10/12/2011
- Free walking tours of Vassar College history to be offered (10/22, 10/29, 11/5)
Announcement Posted 10/12/2011
- Media Studies professor Kathleen Fitzpatrick to discuss “The Future of Authorship,” 10/6
Announcement Posted 09/26/2011
- Innovative mathematician Trachette Jackson to discuss “Mathematical Biology” on 10/6 and “Mathematical Models of Anti-Cancer Therapies” on 10/7
Announcement Posted 09/22/2011
- The Palmer Gallery presents an exhibition featuring 19 Hudson Valley artists from the Long Reach Arts Cooperative, 9/29 - 10/16
Announcement Posted 09/20/2011
- Middle East expert Steven Cook discusses Egypt and the future of the "Arab Spring" at Vassar on October 4, 2011.Professor Talat Halman, Turkey's first Minister of Culture, will discuss the breadth of Turkish arts in a program on 9/21.
Announcement Posted 09/20/2011
- Lecture by Felipe Luciano, an Emmy-winning news reporter and anchor, poet, writer, and activist, 9/17.
Announcement Posted 09/16/2011
- Noted author Chang-Rae Lee to give a reading from his recent work on 9/26.
Announcement Posted 09/16/2011
- Exhibition checklist: " A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum."
Announcement Posted 09/16/2011
- Nobel Prize-winning neuropsychiatrist Eric Kandel will discuss “Memory and the Biological Basis of Individuality” at the URSI symposium, 10/1
Announcement Posted 09/15/2011
- Display of original sukkah shelters designed by Vassar students, and a discussion about Jewish life at Vassar, will mark Vassar’s sesquicentennial and the Sukkot holiday, 10/10
Announcement Posted 09/14/2011
- "Exploring a Sense of Place" at Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve through a series of events, 9/21-11/2.
Announcement Posted 09/09/2011
- The Arlington Street Fair offers entertainment for the entire family, including children's rides, a Bluegrass festival, and a chili cook-off, 9/24.
Announcement Posted 09/08/2011
- Professor Talat Halman, Turkey's first Minister of Culture, will discuss the breadth of Turkish arts in a program on 9/21.
Announcement Posted 09/08/2011
- Fall Convocation Address: "The Character of American Sunlight"
Announcement Posted 09/07/2011
- Rebecca Edwards Eloise Ellery, Professor of History, delivered the Fall Convocation address, "The Character of American Sunlight," September 7, 2011
Announcement Posted 09/07/2011
- Fall Convocation Welcoming Remarks, Catharine Hill, President, September 7, 2011
Announcement Posted 09/07/2011
- Screening of intimate portrait of poet Peter Kane Dufault to be followed by discussion with director Ethan Dufault, 9/21.
Announcement Posted 09/06/2011
- In celebration of its 150th anniversary, Vassar College invites the Hudson Valley Community to enjoy "A Day at Vassar," 10/15..
Announcement Posted 09/05/2011
- Vassar remembers September 11, 2001
Announcement Posted 09/01/2011
- Campus returning to normal, 8/29
Announcement Posted 08/29/2011
- An update from Dean Roellke on Hurricane Irene, 8/28 at 11am
Announcement Posted 08/28/2011
- An update from Dean Roellke on Hurricane Irene, 8/28 at 1:15pm
Announcement Posted 08/28/2011
- Travel resources for returning students
Announcement Posted 08/28/2011
- Weather update from Dean Roellke, 8/28 at 2:45pm
Announcement Posted 08/28/2011
- Weather update from Dean Roellke, 8/28 at 6:30pm
Announcement Posted 08/28/2011
- A message from Dean Roellke on Hurricane Irene, 8/27 at 12pm
Announcement Posted 08/27/2011
- An update from Dean Roellke on Hurricane Irene, 8/27 at 7pm
Announcement Posted 08/27/2011
- President's message on Hurricane Irene, 8/26
Announcement Posted 08/26/2011
- Vassar welcomes class of 2015, the most selective and diverse in the college’s history.
Announcement Posted 08/24/2011
- "Mooz-lum" film screening, artist exhibit, and discussions with filmmaker and artist begin series “Islam in the American Imagination Ten Years After 9/11” (8/31-9/11),
Announcement Posted 08/24/2011
- "Mooz-lum" film screening, artist exhibit, and discussions with filmmaker and artist begin series “Islam in the American Imagination Ten Years After 9/11” (8/31-9/11),
Announcement Posted 08/24/2011
- This fall Vassar's Department of Dance presents three public programs, including a performance by Jane Comfort and Company, a lecture by Alastair Macaulay, and a panel discussion with Merrill Brockway about his "Dance in America" series..
Announcement Posted 08/22/2011
- Vassar presents a public series on the topic of the history of gender and education, 9/1-12/8.
Announcement Posted 08/19/2011
- Centenary of Pulitzer-winning poet and Vassar alumna Elizabeth Bishop celebrated with exhibition (8/30-12/15) and symposium (9/24).
Announcement Posted 08/16/2011
- Works by artist and alumna Christina Teaglia ‘97 on view at Vassar's Palmer Gallery, 8/15-9/6.
Announcement Posted 08/15/2011
- The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center presents an exhibition of the finest early collection of European drawings in the United States this fall, 9/16-12/11.
Announcement Posted 08/04/2011
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In the Media
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s Sherrilyn Ifill ’84 writes New York Times op-ed on raced-based affirmative action. Go to article
- U.S. Open: Artist Max Mason '75 draws U.S. Open golf tournament at Merion Go to article
- A story about Joseph Bertolozzi '81 and his mission to “play the Eiffel Tower”as an instrument in the New York Times Go to article