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Senior clarinet recital by Pietro Geraci ‘18 on April 21, 2018 Announcement Posted 4/19/2018

Tim Youd: Retyping "The Group" by Mary McCarthy from April 19 – May 4, 2018 Announcement Posted 4/18/2018

Special exhibition and self-guided campus tour for the Buildings and Belonging project available through October 2018 Announcement Posted 4/17/2018

Peter Groffman to give lecture, “When Yards Look Alike: Ecological Homogenization and Alternative Futures for Urban America” on May 2, 2018 Announcement Posted 4/17/2018

Margaret McCurry Lecture Series in Architecture presents “Systematic Realism” by Konstantinos Pantazis on April 25, 2018 Announcement Posted 4/17/2018

Second Annual She Is Gala hosted by the Vassar Haiti Project on April 20, 2018 Announcement Posted 4/17/2018

Sculptor Tom Friedman to lecture on his work on April 24, 2018 Announcement Posted 4/12/2018

Climate Change Specialist Angela Burnett to give lecture, “Hurricanes Irma and Maria: Stories from the Frontline of Climate Change” on April 16, 2018 Announcement Posted 4/12/2018

Holocaust survivor Judith Altmann shares her story on April 18, 2018 Announcement Posted 4/11/2018

New Focus Gallery exhibition at the Art Center, Reflections: Portrayals of and by African Americans, on view 4/10–8/19 Announcement Posted 4/11/2018

Author Bob Holmes to discuss his book, “Flavor: The Science of Our Most Neglected Sense” on April 19, 2018 Announcement Posted 4/10/2018

Vassar’s fourth annual International Dance Festival on April 13, 2018 Announcement Posted 4/10/2018

History Faculty and Alumni Panel, “Using Government Documents in Teaching and Research” on April 18, 2018 Announcement Posted 4/10/2018

Actor Harry Lennix to speak on “Art and Spirituality” on April 14, 2018 Announcement Posted 4/6/2018

“The Story of the Bitten Locket: Holocaust Remembrance,” senior thesis presentation by Emma Glickman ‘18 on April 11, 2018 Announcement Posted 4/5/2018

5K Fun Run and Walk at the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve on April 7, 2018 Announcement Posted 4/3/2018

Puerto Rican artist Antonio Martorell to give Annual Antonio Marquez Lecture on April 11, 2018 Announcement Posted 4/3/2018

Carlos Henríquez Consalvi to give lecture titled "Museum of the Word and the Image (MUPI): Spaces of Identity and Memory in Post-War El Salvador” on April 23, 2018 Announcement Posted 4/3/2018

Award-winning projection designer Wendall K. Harrington to give lecture with video on April 27, 2018 Announcement Posted 4/2/2018

Professor William D. Johnston of Wesleyan University to give lecture, “Disasters Fast and Slow: Photography, History, and the Environment,” on March 31, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/29/2018

Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University to give lecture, “A Random Walk Through Physics to the Nobel Prize,” on April 23, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/29/2018

Martin Klimke of NYU Abu Dhabi to give lecture, “Tearing Down Walls, Building Bridges: Dr. King’s Visit to Cold War Berlin” on April 8, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/29/2018

Winter Tree ID Nature Walk at the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve on March 30, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/29/2018

Heather McGhee, president of Demos, a progressive public policy organization, will deliver Vassar College’s 154th Commencement address May 27 Announcement Posted 3/29/2018

Actors from the London Stage perform THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, April 5 – 7, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/28/2018

Neile Miller ‘79 to give lecture, “Why Donald Trump May Find His Nuclear Button is Smaller than He Thinks” on April 4, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/27/2018

A reading by Writer-in-Residence, Kiran Desai, author of The Inheritance of Loss, winner of the Man Booker Prize, on April 10, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/27/2018

Alex Krieger '95 Memorial Lecture with Junot Díaz, New York Times bestselling author and 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner, on April 18, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/27/2018

Master Class: Northern European Art 1500–1700 from the Permanent Collection, on view at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, April 27–September 2, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/27/2018

"Legitimizing 'iel'," French and Francophone Studies Symposium, April 6-7, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/26/2018 Read article

Adriance Memorial Library to host “Hello, Dear Enemy!” exhibit from March 31 to April 8, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/26/2018

Vassar to host first Global Campus event March 28; presentations by two students and four faculty members, followed by discussion by the campus community. Announcement Posted 3/23/2018

Jennifer Doudna of UC Berkeley will give this year's Pauline Newman '47 Distinguished Lecture in Science, Technology, and Society. Doudna will speak on “CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing: Biology, Technology and Ethics” on April 5, 2018. Announcement Posted 3/16/2018

Tim Kane named Vice President of Alumnae/i Affairs and Development Announcement Posted 3/12/2018

Lien-Hang Nguyen of Columbia University to give lecture, “The Tet Offensive Revisted” on April 11, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/9/2018

Administrative offices will open at 11am on 3/8 due to inclement weather Alert Posted 3/8/2018

Bestselling Author David Shields in Conversation with English Professor Amitava Kumar on March 28, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/8/2018

Vassar professor Sarah Kozloff to help organize “March for Our Lives” Hudson Valley protest against gun violence on March 24, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/8/2018

"Legitimizing iel,” French and Francophone Studies Symposium on Language in the Trans Community, on April 6 and 7, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/8/2018

Renowned harpist and singer Benjamin Bagby to perform Beowulf on March 8, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/6/2018

Administrative offices are closed 3/7 due to inclement weather Alert Posted 3/6/2018

Administrative offices are on a 2-hour delay for 3/2 due to inclement weather Alert Posted 3/2/2018 Read article

Administrative offices are closed 3/2 due to inclement weather Alert Posted 3/2/2018

Vassar Haiti Project’s 6th annual Art and Soul gala to honor Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health on March 1, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/1/2018

Professor Paul Farmer of Harvard University to speak on “Structural Violence and Public Health: Reflections on the West African Ebola Epidemic” on March 1, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/1/2018

Ron Patkus to discuss his book on private and fine press Bibles, on March 29, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/1/2018

Vassar's Lehman Loeb Art Center offers "Storytime at the Museum" series for children, beginning March 2, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/1/2018

Krista Gulbransen of Whitman College to give lecture, “Prayer, Performance & Politics: Portraits of the Mughal Emperor Akbar Worshipping the Sun” on March 4, 2018 Announcement Posted 3/1/2018

Vassar to host 18th annual All-College Day Feb. 28; nationally recognized expert on implicit bias to be keynote speaker Announcement Posted 2/28/2018

Amanita Duga-Carroll named Vice President of Communications for Vassar College Announcement Posted 2/26/2018

Stephen Dahnert named Vice President for Finance and Administration Announcement Posted 2/22/2018

Vassar College 75th Anniversary Government Documents Reception on February 21, 2018 Announcement Posted 2/19/2018

Stephanie Paulsell of Harvard Divinity School to lecture on “The Art of Living: Practices for Flourishing in a Fractured World” on February 22, 2018 Announcement Posted 2/19/2018

“NatureTime” at the Vassar Ecological Preserve on February 23, 2018 Announcement Posted 2/16/2018

Annual Iyoya Children’s Art Show to showcase work by young artists from the Hudson Valley at Vassar’s Palmer Gallery, March 11-16, 2018 Announcement Posted 2/16/2018

The Experimental Theater and the Music Department of Vassar College present “A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC” by Stephen Sondheim on March 1, 3, and 4, 2018 Announcement Posted 2/16/2018

Ashon Crawley of the University of Virginia to give lecture on “Polyphonic Intension: The Sound of the Hammond Organ in the Black Church” on April 4, 2018 Announcement Posted 2/14/2018

Environmental and Indigenous Peoples activist, Dallas Goldtooth, to give lecture on February 27, 2018 Announcement Posted 2/9/2018

Virginia Konchan to read excerpts from two recently published books, The End of Spectacle, and Anatomical Gift, on April 26, 2018 Announcement Posted 2/8/2018

Poet and professor Leonard Schwartz to discuss his recent publications, The New Babel: Towards A Poetics of the Mid-East Crises and Benjamin Fondane: Cinepoems and Others, on April 17, 2018 Announcement Posted 2/8/2018

All administrative offices are closed on 2/7 due to inclement weather Alert Posted 2/7/2018

On Thu, 2/8, all administrative offices are on a delayed opening. Administrative offices will open at 10:30am. This delay is for excused employees only. Alert Posted 2/7/2018

Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre to Perform at the Bardavon March 3 and 4, 2018 Announcement Posted 2/5/2018

Professor Hilary Hoynes of UC Berkeley to speak on "Safety Net Investments in Children” on April 23, 2018 Announcement Posted 2/2/2018

American Comedian, Jesse Appell to present “The Great LOL of China” on February 19, 2018 Announcement Posted 2/2/2018

Professor Sarah Haley '01 No Mercy Here: Black Women and Punishment in U.S. History on February 6, 2018 Announcement Posted 1/31/2018

Professor Emily Wilson to discuss her experience of translating Homer's Odyssey on February 15, 2018 Announcement Posted 1/31/2018

Actress, singer, and activist, Ali Stroker headlines Modfest at Vassar February 11, 2018 Announcement Posted 1/29/2018

British Professor Kevin Bales to give a talk on the intersection of human trafficking and environmental destruction on January 30, 2018 Announcement Posted 1/26/2018

Vassar College and Dutchess County Announce Bus Partnership Announcement Posted 1/25/2018

Community Works, Vassar’s annual giving campaign, raises nearly $77,000 for local non-profit organizations Announcement Posted 1/24/2018

People Are Beautiful: Prints, Photographs, and Films by Andy Warhol opens at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, January 26 – April 15, 2018 Announcement Posted 1/19/2018

Anton Vidokle's Film Trilogy on Russian Cosmism, "Immortality for All " will be screened on Monday, January 29, 2018 Announcement Posted 1/19/2018

Administrative offices are on a 2-hour delay for Wednesday, January 17, 2018, due to inclement weather Alert Posted 1/17/2018

Vassar College Astronomy Professor Debra Elmegreen Awarded American Astronomical Society’s George van Biesbroeck Prize Announcement Posted 1/16/2018

Nicole Fabricant of Towson University to lecture on “Climate, Capitalism, and Contradictions in Bolivia” on April 5, 2018 Announcement Posted 1/15/2018

Acclaimed author Yiyun Li to deliver the 2017-18 Gifford Lecture on February 27, 2018 Announcement Posted 1/12/2018

MODFEST returns to Vassar as artists explore the theme of “Adapting” in an everchanging world through written and spoken words, visual arts and performance, February 1 - 11, 2018 Announcement Posted 1/11/2018

First Comes Love: Portraits of Enduring LGBTQ Relationships Photographs by B. Proud from January 25 – March 5, 2018; reception on February 1 Announcement Posted 1/11/2018

Due to inclement weather, Vassar College campus closing at 2pm today, Thursday, January 4, 2018 Alert Posted 1/4/2018

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center will reopen on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 Announcement Posted 12/15/2017

Vassar College Majors presents a program of accompanied and unaccompanied choral works, December 9, 2017 Announcement Posted 12/4/2017

Vassar College student, Michaela Coplen, awarded prestigious Marshall Scholarship Announcement Posted 12/4/2017

Primary Care Crisis' Alumnae/i Panel and Networking Reception, December 2, 2017 Announcement Posted 11/28/2017

Author and Vassar professor Wendy Graham explores the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Victorian England in her new book, Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity Announcement Posted 11/28/2017

Vassar College presents the annual “Service of Lessons and Carols” (12/3) Announcement Posted 11/28/2017

Student art exhibition, “Tag Yourself,” in Palmer Gallery December 1 – 12, 2017 Announcement Posted 11/28/2017

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CRIMES OF THE HEART by Beth Henley to be performed November 30 through December 2, 2017 Announcement Posted 11/17/2017

Help Community Works Earn $10,000: Contributions and pledges through December 4 will help meet a matching challenge Announcement Posted 11/16/2017

Solidarity Forever: Strikes and Labor Organizing with the Burgerville Workers Union, November 20, 2017 Announcement Posted 11/14/2017

Author Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve to give the biennial Norman E. Hodges Lecture on Race in American Law, November 30, 2017 Announcement Posted 11/10/2017

Artist/educator Joel Bergner to give a talk, "Transforming Lives Through Public Art: Creating Murals with Communities in Crisis,” November 14, 2017 Announcement Posted 11/9/2017

Four Vassar alumni artists to discuss “Art After Vassar,” November 29, 2017 Announcement Posted 11/8/2017

Photojournalist and midwife Elisabeth Ubbe to give a talk, “Female Genital Mutilation, Child Marriage, and Breast Feeding Across Cultures,” November 28, 2017 Announcement Posted 11/7/2017

Poet Patience Agbabi to read from her book, Telling Tales, November 13, 2017 Announcement Posted 11/6/2017

Reading and book signing by author John Freeman, November 30, 2017 Announcement Posted 11/2/2017

Christopher MacEvitt to give talk, “Confronting Caliphs and Defeating Death: Martyrdom and Islam among the Franciscans,” November 15, 2017 Announcement Posted 11/1/2017

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