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The Bard-Rockefeller Program, begun in 2000, brings together the strengths of each institution for the benefit of both. The program has created new opportunities for Bard
College undergraduates to study the sciences at one of the world's premiere research
universities, while attending one of the nation's top liberal arts colleges. At the same
time, Rockefeller University benefits from this unique collaboration by the enrichment of the Rockefeller campus with undergraduates and liberal arts faculty who bring a different perspective to learning, teaching, and research.
The collaboration between Bard College and The Rockefeller University is an amalgam of progressive liberal arts and premier biomedical research. "The collaboration goes both ways," says Valeri Thomson '85, director of Bard's Immediate Science Research Opportunity Program
(ISROP).
She explains that, besides providing Bardians with summer internships, "Rockefeller sends postdoctoral fellows with an interest in teaching here to gain experience in undergraduate education." Furthermore, Bard alumni/ae often opt to join Rockefeller's graduate programs and do research there. Thomson, during her recent sabbatical from Bard, continued her research on Mycobacterium tuberculosis. "The research the Bard undergraduates started is at a stage where it can be completed in the Rockefeller laboratories, using live bacterium," she says.
Other key elements of the Bard-Rockefeller Program
- Bard Students participate in the Bard-Rockefeller Semester in Science, during which students spend a semester living in New York City, working in the laboratory with faculty from Rockefeller University, and taking specially designed science classes at the University and Bard Hall, in conjunction with Bard's Globalization and International Affairs program.
- Bard students participate in Rockefeller's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows
(SURF) program, under which college students work in Rockefeller research labs
and are provided room and board on the Rockefeller campus, along with a summer
stipend.
- Bard faculty, current and newly recruited, have the chance to participate in
research projects in Rockefeller laboratories.
- Bard's Institute for Writing and Thinking works with Rockefeller's Precollege Science Outreach Programs to offer opportunities for secondary school students and teachers.
- Rockefeller University postdoctoral fellows teach courses at Bard.
- Bard faculty support Rockefeller's recruitment of graduate students by facilitating
contacts with teachers and students from Bard's consortium of liberal arts
colleges.
- Rockefeller faculty regularly give lectures at Bard, and Bard faculty frequently
speak and perform at Rockefeller.
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About Rockefeller University
Founded by John D. Rockefeller, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was incorporated on June 14, 1901. It was the first institution in the United States devoted solely to biomedical research--to understanding the underlying causes of disease. Today, renamed Rockefeller University, it is one of the foremost research centers in the world, contributing to 23 Nobel Prizes as well as numerous other awards.
In its first century of accomplishment, Rockefeller was a leader in basic scientific research and graduate education. Among their many breakthroughs, world-renowned scientists at Rockefeller have:
- Discovered that genes are made of DNA.
- Found the Rh factor in blood.
- Pioneered the physiology and chemistry of vision.
- Demonstrated the connection between cholesterol and heart disease.
- Developed vaccines against meningitis.
- Introduced methadone to manage heroin addiction.
- Discovered that distribution of proteins to various cellular compartments is accomplished by a "ZIP code" system.
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