Despite diminishing government financial support over the past quarter century, MIT launched several successful development campaigns to significantly expand the campus: new dormitories and athletics buildings on west campus ; the Tang Center for Management Education ; several buildings in the northeast corner of campus supporting research into biology, brain and cognitive sciences, genomics, biotechnology, and cancer research ; and a number of new " backlot " buildings on Vassar Street including the Stata Center.

In the 1950s he began to receive more commissions from American universities for campus designs and individual buildings ; these include the Noyes dormitory at Vassar, as well as an ice rink, Ingalls Rink, and Ezra Stiles & Morse Colleges at Yale University.

Most frequently found at ' playtime ' on the quad, or indoors in Main building or UpCDC during the winter, The Monkeys perform on and off campus and strive to bring the fun of circus arts to the Vassar community.

* The Vassar Chronicle is the College's only political journal, published monthly by the Moderate, Independent, Conservative Alliance ( MICA ), which seeks to expand the breadth of political dialogue on campus by publishing long-form opinion columns.

The site is updated with posts about news, current events, and campus culture at Vassar.

* The Vassar Spectator ( defunct ) long-running campus publication of opinion and commentary, published quarterly.

The Vassar campus has several buildings of architectural interest.

On 26 February 1861, Matthew Vassar presented the college's Board of Trustees with a tin box containing half of his fortune, $ 408, 000 ( approximately $ 9, 700, 000 in 2008 dollars ) and a deed of conveyance for of land to establish the campus.

* For Elizabeth ( 2006 ), permanent outdoor work for the Vassar College campus consisting of twenty backless and armless granite benches, inscribed with the poetry of alumna and Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Bishop

Three years later, Ruth Carr Patton and Frances Matteson Bowersock joined with Hill to found the Sunset Hill School, named after Hill's favorite area on the Vassar campus.

When Vassar College became a co-educational institution in 1969, the school began plans to launch a campus radio station to serve both the campus and the nearby communities.

* Commission from Vassar College to create a series of photographs of campus trees.

At Vassar College she was elected head of the Drama Club " after silencing a giggling college crowd at a campus dining hall with her interpretation of a scene from Richard II, playing none other than Richard himself ".

The collections of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College chart the history of art from antiquity to the present and comprise over 15, 000 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and glass and ceramic wares.

Her music has been presented at festivals all over the world, including events in Germany, Scandinavia, Italy, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the U. S. Lockwood, a Professor Emeritus at Vassar College, NY since 1982, has retired from teaching though she still writes and performs.

The Great Lakes Central Railroad is a Class II regional railroad, originally called the Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway, that was formed on August 26, 1977 to operate over former Penn Central lines from Millington to Munger, Michigan, and Vassar to Colling, Michigan.

An avid and effective fundraiser, she has raised more than $ 750 million for Vassar College.

Lummis, who went to the Vassar College archives to review Benedict ’ s notes, wrote that he found some of her more important points were developed from interviews with Robert Hashima, a Japanese-American native of the United States who was taken to Japan as a child, educated there, then returned to the U. S. before World War II began.

Though Scottie was subsequently accepted to Vassar College, his resentment of Zelda was stronger than ever before.

* MacCracken, named for Vassar College president Henry Noble MacCracken, is a few years younger than its neighbors and has, at various times, housed the College library, the bookstore, and a number of other facilities in addition to living spaces.

GamesRadar's Darryl Vassar wrote that " there are few Pokémon weirder than Sudowoodo ".

Several people, including former Clinton speechwriter David Kusnet and, later, Vassar professor Donald Foster, correctly identified Klein as the novel's author, based on a literary analysis of the book and Klein's previous writing.

* The College has multiple political clubs, including the Vassar College Democrats and the Moderate, Independent, Conservative Alliance ( MICA ).

Early on, Poughkeepsie was also a major center for whale rendering, and during the 19th century industry flourished through shipping, hatteries, papermills, and several breweries along the Hudson River, including some owned by Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College.

Several people, including former Clinton speechwriter David Kusnet and, later, Vassar professor Donald Foster correctly identified Klein as the novel's author, based on a literary analysis of the book and Klein's previous writing.

Although she went to all the right schools, including Milton Academy in Massachusetts and Vassar in New York, she was restless and adventurous.

Before leaving, Cowles declared that dropping the preparatory program at the college would strengthen students ' diplomas ; many other colleges, including Vassar, did not have such programs.

from Vassar College in 1915, and worked for fund-raising organizations during World War I, including the American Committee for Devastated France.

At Slabsides he wrote, grew celery, and entertained visitors, including students from local Vassar College.

Proctor was involved in several civic activities, including serving as a member of the Vermont Sanitarium Board of Trustees, and as a Trustee of Middlebury College, Vassar College and the University of Vermont.

Long attended Fairfield College Preparatory School, a Jesuit school, and Vassar College, where he was a member of the sketch comedy group Laughingstock and starred in several plays, including Butterflies Are Free.

degree at Vassar in 1909 after four years of education.

After four years, the Federal Theatre Project was shut down and Flanagan returned to Vassar.

Besides these, students in the last four years have been accepted into colleges such as Stanford University, Vassar College, Emory University, Northwestern University, Southern Methodist University, Texas Christian University, Harvard University, New York University, Rice University, Yale University, Wake Forest University, Dartmouth College, Boston College, Brown University, Duke University, Trinity University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, University of Texas at Austin, Vanderbilt University, and Washington University in St. Louis.

At least two National Historic Landmarks are located in the town: the Vassar College Observatory and Main Building ( Vassar College ).

Following her appointment as National Director of the FTP in July 1935, Hallie Flanagan, a professor and playwright at Vassar College, and playwright Elmer Rice set to work planning the organization and focus of the FTP.

Laybourne sits the boards or advisory committees of The National Cable & Telecommunications Association, The National Council for Families and Television, New York Women in Film & Television ( Advisory Board ), Cable Positive ( Honorary Chair ), the Board of Trustees of Vassar College, Insight Communications, Symantec Corporation, Electronic Arts, J. C. Penney, Move. com, and mySkin Inc.

The famous bluegrass fiddler Vassar Clements described his style of music as " hillbilly jazz.

Eastman graduated from Vassar College in 1903 and received an M. A.

She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar in 1928 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and earned her Master's degree at Yale University in 1930.

She then took a break from acting to study art at Vassar College.

The city of Vassar is to the northeast and incorporates some land from the survey township that forms the basis for the present civil township.

She received her BA in Biology from Vassar College, intending to follow in her father's footsteps and research headaches.

She spent eleven years there, graduating from Vassar College in 1882.

Quidditch practices are open to any member of the Vassar community and often receive a mixture of confusion and admiration from bystanders.

Notable attendees who did not graduate from Vassar include First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, president of the Ford Foundation Susan Berresford, actresses Jane Fonda and Anne Hathaway, actor Justin Long, member of the Beastie Boys Mike D and professional chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain.

Students from Columbia University and the other colleges and universities included in the consortium ( University of Chicago, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Vassar College ) can attend classes at the Freie Universität for one or two semesters as external students.

She graduated in 1939 from the Wheeler School and attended but did not graduate from Vassar College.

Returnees from the first Circle included Earl Scruggs, Vassar Clements, and Roy Acuff.

from Vassar College ( 1948 ), she tried to enroll at Princeton but never received their graduate catalog as women there were not allowed in the graduate astronomy program until 1975.

Lee studied at Sweet Briar College and later at Vassar College, but did not graduate from either institution.

from Vassar College in 1980 and received his Juris Doctor from the Washington College of Law at American University.

At Vassar, she earned extra money taking students for rides in an airplane she rented from a nearby airport.

She graduated from high school in June 1886, at age fifteen, and that fall she entered Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, as a preparatory student.

She conducted an experimental study of the methods of equivalences in tactual perception and earned her Master's degree in absentia from Vassar College in 1893 for that work.

Cadets also come from nearby Vassar College, SUNY New Paltz, Mount Saint Mary College, Orange County Community College and Dutchess Community College.

* Brief Biography from Vassar College