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×hide You are viewing an archived web page collected at the request of Vassar College using Archive-It . This page was captured on 22:02:07 Mar 03, 2022. The information on this web page may be out of date. See All versions of this archived page. Loading media information(press enter key) Menu Vassar Info Vassar College News This site is no longer updated. Current Vassar news can be found at www.vassar.edu/news ; otherwise you can browse recent archived news items . Home News 2021-2022 June 2021 In the Washington Post , Prof. of Political Science and Africana Studies Taneisha N Means writes about why there are so few Black women in high-level federal posts. In The Media Posted 6/24/2021 Read article Meryl Streep ’71 gets a surprise birthday greeting in the City of New York. In The Media Posted 6/23/2021 Read article Associate Professor of Political Science Luke Harris spoke to the Wall Street Journal about the debate over critical race theory. In The Media Posted 6/18/2021 Read article One Art,” a poem by Elizabeth Bishop ’34, is the subject of a New York Times Close Read” feature. In The Media Posted 6/18/2021 Read article Recording artist and Neon Gold Records co-founder Lizzy Plapinger ’10 spoke to American Songwriter about starting her record label in her Vassar dorm room. In The Media Posted 6/17/2021 Read article Vassar’s Loeb Art Center Commemorates Juneteenth Announcement Posted 6/17/2021 Vassar Resumes Campus Tours for Prospective Students, Families Announcement Posted 6/17/2021 Summer Art, New Public Hours Announced at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College Announcement Posted 6/14/2021 The Fulbright Program hosted a special event to kick off Pride Month featuring Sasha Velour ’09—a 2009 Fulbright U.S. Student to Russia and winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 9. In The Media Posted 6/14/2021 Read article Spectrum News 1 interviewed President Elizabeth Bradley about a $1.1 million state grant Vassar will receive to construct the Hudson Valley’s most energy-efficient building and to teach students and community members about going green. In The Media Posted 6/14/2021 Read article Producer Paula Madison ’74 is on the creative team developing a limited series about the landmark civil rights case following the 1982 murder of engineer Vincent Chin, as noted by the Hollywood Reporter . In The Media Posted 6/11/2021 Read article In an interview with the Buffalo News , the paper at which she began her journalism career 70 years ago, Sue Buyer ’47 talks about writing her first novel after turning 90. In The Media Posted 6/11/2021 Read article In an essay for Diverse Issues in Higher Education , Senior Associate Dean of the College Edward Pittman ’82 describes coming back to his alma mater as an administrator to support students of color. In The Media Posted 6/11/2021 Read article An Unconventional Year Culminates in 2021 Vassar College Commencement Ceremony Announcement Posted 6/8/2021 Maria Höhn, Professor of History on the Marion Musser Lloyd ’32 Chair, was quoted in a History.com article about how racism impacted the thousands of children born to Black GIs and White European women after World War II. In The Media Posted 6/4/2021 Read article Cindy Crusto ’91 has just become the first African American Woman to achieve the rank of Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, as noted by the school. In The Media Posted 6/1/2021 Read article In the Chronogram article The Advantages of Being Awestruck,” Wendy Kagan ’91 discusses the work of Professor of Psychological Science Michele Tugade ’95 and creativity strategist Natalie Nixon ’91. In The Media Posted 6/1/2021 Read article May 2021 Lisa Kudrow ’85 was joined by Lady Gaga for a duet performance of Smelly Cat” on the HBO Max Friends reunion special, as joyfully noted by HuffPost , Today , and many other media outlets. In The Media Posted 5/28/2021 Read article Forbes magazine featured Georgette Bennett ’67 in the article Dr. Georgette Bennett and the Women Over 50 Fighting for Human Rights Around the World” and on MSNBC’s Morning Joe show. In The Media Posted 5/24/2021 Read article In an essay for Inside Higher Ed , Senior Associate Dean of the College Edward Pittman ’82 describes how to make implicit-bias education truly effective. In The Media Posted 5/21/2021 Read article Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, highlighted his special partnership with President Elizabeth Bradley during a Yale Institute of Global Health discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic. In The Media Posted 5/21/2021 Read article Spectrum News reported on Vassar’s renaming of the ALANA Cultural Center for the pathbreaking Black architect and late faculty member Jeh Vincent Johnson. In The Media Posted 5/19/2021 Read article Dara Greenwood, Associate Professor of Psychological Science, discussed the psychology of soap operas on the BBC Sounds show All in the Mind . In The Media Posted 5/14/2021 Read article Steven Cook ’90, Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, offers a bleak assessment of the latest round of violence between Israelis and Palestinians in Foreign Policy . In The Media Posted 5/14/2021 Read article Vassar will serve as a primary location for a new HBO Max series produced by Mindy Kaling, as noted by the Times Union . In The Media Posted 5/11/2021 Read article Congrats to Jason Wu ’07, just named to Good Morning America’s Who is Making Asian American Pacific Islander History in 2021: The GMA Inspiration List.” In The Media Posted 5/11/2021 Read article In the New York Times Magazine , English Professor Amitava Kumar describes the productivity trick that never fails him. In The Media Posted 5/4/2021 Read article In an EDUCAUSE article, Professor of Psychological Science Michele Tugade ’95 details 7 Things You Should Know About Mental Health and Higher Education.” In The Media Posted 5/4/2021 Read article April 2021 Judas and the Black Messiah , a film by Shaka King ’01, earned Oscars for Best Supporting Actor (Daniel Kaluuya) and Best Original Song (Fight for You”), as noted by Entertainment Weekly and many other publications. In The Media Posted 4/26/2021 Read article Mayo Clinic’s blog featured an interview with President Elizabeth Bradley on Vassar’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and other healthcare issues. In The Media Posted 4/26/2021 Read article The Chronicle of Philanthropy noted the recent appointment of Tanya Odom ’92 as Walton Family Foundation Equity and Inclusion Program Director. In The Media Posted 4/23/2021 Read article In a Polygon.com interview, Greg Russo ’03 describes how being a gamer helped him write the screenplay for the new Mortal Kombat movie. In The Media Posted 4/22/2021 Read article Vassar College Partners with WMCHealth to Vaccinate More Than 500 Students Against COVID-19; More Vaccine from NY State on the Way Announcement Posted 4/20/2021 Vassar College Announced Plans for Fall Semester; Returning Students to be Fully On-Campus and Vaccinations Required Announcement Posted 4/16/2021 Vassar to Rename Cultural Center Building in Honor of the Pioneering Architect and Former Faculty Member Behind its Design, Professor Jeh Vincent Johnson Announcement Posted 4/16/2021 In this Washington Post op ed, President Bradley and Carnegie Fellow Christopher McKnight Nichols posit that America’s traditional instinct to go it alone” is an obstacle to pandemic prevention. In The Media Posted 4/15/2021 Read article Olaf Carlson-Wee ’12, founder and CEO of Polychain Capital, was featured on CNBC. In The Media Posted 4/15/2021 Read article Sherrilyn Ifill ’84, head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, joined a Washington Post panel discussion on allyship between African American and Asian communities in the fight against systemic racism. In The Media Posted 4/9/2021 Read article NAACP-LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill ’84 appointed to Presidential Commission on the...