Education Department

News & Events

Archived Announcements

February 2013

• Education Department Intern Office Hours (Posted 2/11/2013)
• Alfie Kohn Lecture (Posted 2/11/2013)
• Public School Reform - Panel Discussion (Posted 2/11/2013)
• Torrey Maldonado '97 "2012 Top 10 Author" visiting campus (Posted 2/11/2013)

November 2012

• Student Teaching Applications Available (Posted 11/15/2012)

October 2012

• Vassar Noyce Teacher Scholarships (Posted 10/31/2012)
• Introducing Education Department Intern Daniel Sherwood (Posted 10/1/2012)

September 2012

• Urban Education Initiative January Internship (Posted 9/26/2012)
• Education Department Informational Pizza Party (Posted 9/26/2012)

December 2011

• Screening of "Race To Nowhere" (Posted 12/5/2011)

November 2011

• VAST Tutoring Program highlighted in the MISC (Posted 11/20/2011)
• Student Teaching Applications Available (Posted 11/20/2011)

October 2011

• Vassar Noyce Teacher Scholarships (Posted 10/4/2011)
• Jonathan Kozol Lecture November 3, 2011 (Posted 10/4/2011)
• Urban Education Initiative January Internship (Posted 10/3/2011)
• Bank Street Semester Info Session! (Posted 10/4/2011)
• Urban Prep Charter Academies Info Session (Posted 10/4/2011)

September 2011

• Introducing Education Department Intern Heather Kesselman! (Posted 9/14/2011)
• Vassar College Urban Education Initiative (Posted 9/12/2011)
• Education Department Informational Pizza Party (Posted 9/12/2011)
• Nobel Prize-winning neuropsychiatrist Eric Kandel will discuss “Memory and the Biological Basis of Individuality” at the URSI symposium, 10/1 (Posted 9/15/2011)

March 2011

• “Watson” developer Chris Welty to discuss the Jeopardy-winning computer system, 3/23. (Posted 3/11/2011)

January 2011

• Vassar College begins to mark 150th anniversary year on January 18, 2011. (Posted 1/13/2011)

December 2010

• National Science Foundation funds five research projects led by Vassar College professors and their colleagues. (Posted 12/1/2010)

March 2010

• Nancy Ide receives honorary professorship from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, Romania. (Posted 3/31/2010)

November 2009

• Costa Rica Cloud Forest School JYA program approved (Posted 11/10/2009)
• Christopher Roellke, acting dean of the college and professor of education, and a team of colleagues developed a proposal funded by the Dyson Foundation to launch a three-year pilot project, Exploring College (Posted 11/10/2009)

September 2009

• Symposium features lecture on structural biology and showcases summer science research, 9/30 (Posted 9/10/2009)

May 2009

• Visiting Assistant Professor of Education Tracey Holland has received an award from the U.S. Institute of Peace for her project, "Examining the Social Impact of Human Rights Education in Peace-building." (Posted 5/7/2009)

March 2009

• James Gee to lecture on video games and learning, 4/2 (Posted 3/10/2009)

February 2009

• Nancy Willard, lecturer in education and English, published The Left-Handed Story: Writing and the Writer’s Life (The University of Michigan Press). (Posted 2/9/2009)
• Joshua de Leeuw, Vassar alumnus and research associate, wins worldwide programming competition (Posted 2/13/2009)

January 2009

• Margaret Wright presents real world applications of mathematics, 2/19 & 2/20 (Posted 1/26/2009)

September 2008

• David M. Levy to lecture, Thu., 9/18 (Posted 9/5/2008)

October 2007

• Winifred "Tim" Asprey dies at 90 (Posted 10/19/2007)

February 2005

• Hypertext Writer and Internet Activist Don Foresta To Speak (Posted 2/17/2005)