Bard MFA Faculty Member Tony Cokes Named 2024 MacArthur Fellow
Bard MFA Faculty in Moving Image Tony Cokes has been named a 2024 MacArthur Fellow. Cokes, a media artist, is one of this year’s 22 recipients of the prestigious “genius grant” awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In a statement about his work, the MacArthur Foundation says, “Tony Cokes is a media artist creating video works that recontextualize historical and cultural moments."
Valentina Rozas-Krause Appointed 2024–25 Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism
The Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) and Bard College’s Human Rights Project announce architect and architectural historian Valentina Rozas-Krause as the 2024–25 recipient of the Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism. The appointment marks a decade since the fellowship was established in 2014 as an annual award bringing prominent scholars, activists, and artists to teach and conduct research on Bard’s campus. Read More >>New Study Coauthored by Bard Professor Felicia Keesing on Rodent-Borne Diseases Shows Connection to Loss of Biodiversity
Felicia Keesing, David and Rosalie Rose Distinguished Professor of Science, Mathematics, and Computing at Bard, has published a study in Science with coauthor Richard S. Ostfeld examining diseases that are spread to people by rodents, and how our destruction of the environment makes those diseases more likely. “Rodents as a group are infamous as disease-transmitters,” says Keesing. “But not all rodents are created equal. We were able to discern clear patterns in which ones are dangerous, which ones are not, and why.” Read More >>More Bard News
- Bard Alumnus Brandon Blackwood ’13 Named in TIME Magazine’s 2024 TIME100 Next List
- BPI Celebrates 25 Years with Homecoming Event
- Roger Berkowitz Joins Other Arendt Center Conference Speakers on WAMC’s Roundtable to Discuss Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
- Bard Alumni/ae Rosa Polin ’16 and Ryan Rusiecki ’20 Featured in Cultured Magazine’s List of Young Photographers 2024
- Jonathan Becker Talks to Inside Higher Ed about Bard’s On-Campus Polling Site
- Professor Brooke Jude’s Microbial Textile Research Featured in The Scientist
