Community Works
Funded by donations from Vassar College employees and students, the Community Works Campaign provides financial assistance to local not-for-profit organizations. Last year, the campaign raised $88,000 to donate to 14 area organizations. Our dollars go a long way. more...
Everything is Illuminated
In the eyes of Saul Steinberg, everything was illuminated. The famed cartoonist for the New Yorker, and also the subject of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center’s touring exhibition, had a knack for calling attention to life’s smallest details and for re-creating our own cultural icons and symbols, calling for us to examine them in a new light. more...
From robots to rhetoric: cognitive science turns 25
In 1982, Vassar granted the world’s first undergraduate degree in cognitive science. Since then, over 200 graduates have earned the degree, taking courses in the field that explores the nature of thought, learning, and behavior by combining the tools of psychology, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, and computer science. more...