Bard Blogs
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Student-Led Initiatives
- La Voz Managing Director Mariel Fiori ’05 Named One of New York Hispanic Coalition's 40 Under 40 Rising Stars
- The Bard College Debate Union Wins Big, Mentors Local High School Team
- After Receiving Bone Marrow Transplant, Bard Student Marina Day Organizes Drive to Find Donor for Neighbor (BelmontPatch)
- Bard Students Raise Funds During Tough Financial Times to Develop Humanitarian Projects at Home and Abroad
- Bard College Students Present Symposium "Sri Lanka: Creative Media in a Time of Conflict"
- Bard's Trustee Leader Scholar (TLS) Nicaragua Project Presents a Lecture by Mayor of Chacraseca
- Student Leaders Develop and Pursue Community Service Programs through Bard TLS Program
Local Partnerships
- Hispanic Immigration in Rural New York: Panel Discussion with Bard Spanish Professor Melanie Nicholson and La Voz Editor Mariel Fiori (WGXC.org)
- Bard Archaeology Students Uncover Local History in Nearby Germantown (Hudson Valley Mercantile)
- Bard Student Saim Saeed '13 Awarded Highest Honor at West Point Conference on U.S. Affairs
- Joy in Numbers: Bard’s Math Circle Explores the Wonder of Calculation (Kingston Times)
- Counting on Fun: Bard Math Circle at Kingston Library Takes Middle School Students Beyond Boring Basics (Daily Freeman)
- Bard College and Local Partners Present the First Ultimate Annual Red Hook High School Student Career and College Fair
- Bard to Conduct Five-Kilometer Run to Benefit Red Hook Schools (The Daily Mail)
International Partnerships
- $60 Million Gift to Bolster Bard College's Global Work (The New York Times)
- Bard to Operate New Satellite Liberal Arts Program in Berlin (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Russian Singer-Songwriter Jenia Lubich, MA Graduate of Bard Partner Smolny College, Refined Her Talents in Annandale (The St. Petersburg Times)
- War During Peace in Nepal: A Ceasefire Is a Time to Build Peace, Not Prepare for Another War, by Bard Student Dhana Hamal (Nepali Times)
- Russia's Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin Named Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences at St. Petersburg State University, Bard Partner in the Smolny College Dual Degree Program (The New York Times)
- Q. and A. with Aleksei L. Kudrin, Liberal Arts Dean at Bard Partner St. Petersburg State University (The New York Times)
- Bard College Junior Elizabeth Castle Scheduled to Accept Award of Behalf of the Bard Palestinian Youth Initiative (BPYI) at the Annual Talloires Network Leaders Conference in Madrid
- Partnership between Bard College and Al-Quds University Brings U.S. Education to Palestinians (NPR)
- Bard College and Al-Quds University Join Hands in U.S.-Palestinian Venture (The New York Times)
- First Dual-Degree Program for American and Palestinian Universities Launched by Bard and Al-Quds (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Bard's International Programs Lay a Liberal Arts Foundation on Shaky Ground (Inside Higher Ed)
- Bard-Smolny Partnership Offers the "Liberating Arts" to Russia (The New York Times)
Reimagining Prison Education
- Bard Prison Initiative Graduate Manuel Borras '08 Selected for Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group
- From Ball and Chain to Cap and Gown: Getting a B.A. Behind Bars (PBS NewsHour)
- How to Succeed in Business by Really, Really Trying (PBS NewsHour)
- Wesleyan Prison Education Program Sees Success, Models Efforts on Bard Prison Initiative (Middletown Press)
- MIT Professor Craig Wilder Reflects on His Work with Bard Prison Initiative, Empowering Inmates to Get College Degrees (MIT Spectrum)
- Carlos Rosado Earns Bard Bachelor's Degree, Plants Garden All While Serving Time (ABC News)
- Panel Faces Deadline on Pardons for Immigrants, Including Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) Graduate (The New York Times)
- Bard College President Leon Botstein Honored for Bard Prison Initiative's Work on Behalf of Young Black Men
- Bard Conservatory Orchestra Performs at Local Prison (WNYC)
- Maximum Security Education: The Bard Prison Initiative (60 Minutes)
- In Prison, College Programs Like BPI Are Few (The Wall Street Journal)
Transforming Secondary Education and Teaching
- Professor Ellen Condliffe Lagemann on Renewing Civic Education (Harvard Magazine)
- BHSEC Newark Students Learn Mandarin in First Chinese Language Class in the City (LocalTalkNews.com)
- Mayor Cory Booker Commends Newark Schools and Bard College for Collaboration at Opening of New Bard High School Early College (LocalTalkNews.com)
- "World-Class Music Program a Hit" at Paramount Bard Academy in California (Bakersfield Californian)
- Russian Educator Visits BHSEC in New York City to See Curriculum in Action (New York Times)
- Bard President Botstein and Newark Mayor Cory Booker to Visit New Bard High School Early College in Newark (SouthWardPatch)
- Alumni of Bard High School Early College in Manhattan Speak to Current NYC Early College Students about Their Success, the Importance of Getting a Head Start (GothamSchools)
- Bard Early College in New Orleans (WWNO)
- Bard College and Newark Public Schools Announce the Opening of Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) Newark
- Four BHSEC Students Win Random House Scholarship Awards
- BHSEC Queens Awarded Science and Math Improvement Grant by the Toshiba America Foundation
- BHSEC and Shanghai Students Compare Pollution Levels in Rivers
- President Barack Obama Cites Bard High School Early College in Centennial Speech to the NAACP
- Bard College Program Brings University Seminars to New Orleans High Schools (nola.com)
- High School Bound Students in Newark Have Options (LocalTalkNews.com)
- The Bard College New Orleans Initiative Presents "Bard in New Orleans: A Reexamination of Civic Engagement"
- Bard Students Spearhead Rebuilding and Education Projects in New Orleans
Innovations in Science and Sustainability
- Bard MBA Sustainable Business Series Helps NYC Entrepreneurs Go Green (Good Business International)
- Bard College Offers New MBA in Sustainability (Daily Freeman)
- Bard College Sustainability Initiatives Bring Campus Closer to 2025 Carbon Neutrality Goal
- Bard CEP Students Apply Technique to Green Problems (Poughkeepsie Journal)
- Sustainably Speaking: "¿No Hay Agua?" Bard CEP Student Sebastian Pillitteri Writes on His Experience in Oaxaca, Mexico (Poughkeepsie Journal)
- Bard CEP Students: "Ancient Technique Could Boost Food Production" (Poughkeepsie Journal)
- Many Land Trusts Need Helpers, Writes Bard CEP Student (Poughkeepsie Journal)
- Bard MBA in Sustainability Featured in Huffington Post Article on Growing Field of Sustainability Studies (Huffington Post)
- New York Should Make Milk, Not Prisons: Bard Alum Brenden Beck '07 Works to Change State's Economy (WNET Thirteen Metro Focus)
- Bard CEP and Bard MBA Director Eban Goodstein Speaks on Global Warming in West Virginia (State Journal)
- An Infusion of Science Where the Arts Reign: Bard's Citizen Science Program (The New York Times)
- First-Year Students Volunteer Locally for Citizen Science Civic Engagement Days
- Policy Center Director Speaks on Issues of Sustainability (Auburn Plainsman)
- "Scaling Up Local Food" Seminar Features Bard Alumna Laura Edwards-Orr '02
- The Big Table Film Screening Features Hudson Valley Farmers
- Bard Center for Environmental Policy Students Link Science and Policy at New York Environmental Conference
- Bard's New Model for Citizen Science in the Classroom (Science 2.0)
- Bard Biology Professor Catherine O'Reilly on Lake Temperatures and Climate Change (NBC Learn)
- Reducing Carbon Emissions Even More Remains Economically Viable, Writes Bard Center for Environmental Policy (CEP) Director Eban Goodstein (The Washington Post)
- CEP Director Eban Goodstein on the Cost of a Warming Arctic (WAMC)
- Bard Center for Environmental Policy News (Full Events and Media Listing)
- Bard College Focuses its Green Campus Initiatives
Annandale Affiliates
- The Hunt for Mengele’s Skull: Bard Human Rights Project Director Thomas Keenan on the Use of Forensics in the Case of a Notorious War Criminal (Slate.com)
- The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College Awarded $425K NEH Challenge Grant
- Hannah Arendt Center Director Roger Berkowitz: The Next Generation of Human (TEDx)
