facilities

The Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation

The Bard Science Initiative is a comprehensive campuswide enterprise aimed at invigorating science education in the context of the liberal arts. The effort reached a new level of commitment with the Fall 2007 opening of The Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation, a sinuous structure set into the meadows and woodlands of the Annandale-on-Hudson campus.

The Center is a dramatic curved structure, designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects, is a new academic hub for the campus. Its plaza will be the new southern terminus of the Richard D. Griffiths Main Campus Walk that leads to the Stevenson Library.

The west side of the Center contains 10,000 square feet of laboratory space that provides students with an opportunity to pursue the research based, hands-on study of the sciences that is an essential part of Bard's science programs. The large open spaces invite interaction between faculty and students and represent a significant contrast to the traditional lab format of small rooms behind closed doors. The laboratories are designed with a flexible modular bench-and-bollard system so they can be easily reconfigured. The Center also contains specialized areas such as a zebrafish research lab, two environmental rooms, a cognitive systems lab, and a hardware research lab.

The east side of the Center contains an inviting lobby/common space in which three elliptical classrooms and an egg-shaped auditorium (capacity 62) are situated. Above the three classrooms are terraces that overlook the lobby.

The terraces provide informal space for students to study and interact with each other and the faculty. The west wall of the lobby houses a permanently installed poster exhibition system that is used for displaying science research posters as well as works of art. The central location of the Center, together with its light-filled and comfortable study areas, draw students from all disciplines.

Phase I of the Center contains the biology and computer science programs. It will open for the fall 2007 semester.

Phase II of the Center will contain the chemistry program and will open in fall 2008

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Bard College Facilities

Hegeman Science Hall and the David Rose Science Laboratories

The Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics programs are currently housed in the Hegeman and Albee buildings, which contain faculty offices, classrooms, and laboratories, and the adjacent David Rose Science Laboratories wing. In the Rose wing are the Jerome I. Feldman Physics Center, a floor devoted to chemistry, and teaching and student research laboratories. Hegeman was renovated through grants from the W. K. Keck Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Divisional laboratories provide a wide range of equipment used for advanced science classes and faculty and student research. The Physics Program has a broad array of research electronics and optics equipment and nuclear detection devices. The Chemistry Program’s equipment includes UV/Vis and FT-IR spectrometers, a 300-MHz multinuclear FT-NMR, and a gas chromatograph–mass spectrometer.

The facilities of the Bard College Field Station are also used by students of ecology and environmental studies. Divisional computing facilities include microcomputers for data acquisition and analysis and a network of RISC stations for advanced computing.

Henderson Computer Resources Center and Henderson Technology Laboratories

The Henderson Computer Resources Center (HCRC) and the  Henderson Technology Laboratories are the campus’s central computing facilities.

The HCRC houses approximately 90 computers of different types and capabilities, including Macintosh and Windows-based PCs; specialized multimedia workstations; IBM RS/6000, Sun, and Linux workstations; and X-station equipment, in addition to an extensive software library. The Henderson Technology Laboratories building features a large, mixed Macintosh and Windows-based PC public computing lab, which is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and a new PC-based computer classroom and video conference facility. A gigabit fiber-optic backbone network and 100Mb switched Ethernet link the College’s various facilities and provide students and faculty with unlimited access to the Internet, e-mail, and the World Wide Web. Wireless networking zones (WiFi “hotspots”) are located in the Bertelsmann Campus Center and Stevenson Library.

The Bard College Field Station

The Bard College Field Station, built in 1971, is on the Hudson River near Tivoli South Bay and the mouth of the Saw Kill. Its location affords research and teaching access to freshwater tidal marshes, swamps and shallows, perennial and intermittent streams, young and old deciduous and coniferous forests, old and mowed fields, and other habitats. A library, herbarium, laboratories, classroom, and offices are open to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and environmental researchers by prior arrangement. Also based at the field station are the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Hudsonia Ltd., a research institute. The field station is owned by the College and operated with support from the Research Reserve, Hudsonia, and other public and private funding sources. Student interns and employees assist in project work.

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Satellite Facilities

Rockefeller University

Bard Students will have access to Rockefeller University laboratories through the SURF Program.

Simon's Rock College of Bard Fisher Science Building

Simon's Rock College of Bard's Fisher Science and Academic Center was named in honor of Overseer Emily Fisher and Trustee Richard Fisher whose extraordinary gifts, together with those of James M. Clark, Jr. '78 and the Penzance Foundation, made its construction possible, the Fisher Science and Academic Center houses the college's biology, chemistry, ecology, and physics laboratories; research labs for faculty and students; a greenhouse; computer and other classrooms and tutorial rooms; a 60-seat auditorium; and faculty offices.

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