Press Releases by Date
September 2024
09-06-2024
Bard College President Leon Botstein Participates as Presidential Speaker in Virtual Conversation on Welcome Corps on Campus Hosted by White House Executive Office of the President Full Story
09-04-2024
Bard Fiction Prize Winner Zain Khalid to Give Reading on September 23 Full Story
09-03-2024
Bard Professor Peter Filkins Receives $50,000 NEH Public Scholars Award in Support of His Book Project Sibyl and Siren: A Life of Ingeborg Bachmann Full Story
August 2024
08-28-2024
Wihanble S’a Center at Bard College Receives $500,000 Grant and Named NEH Humanities Research Center on Artificial Intelligence Full Story
08-21-2024
Bard College Celebrates Arrival of Inaugural Cohort of Sponsored Refugee Students Through US Department of State’s Welcome Corps on Campus Program Full Story
08-13-2024
Bard College Announces the Creation of The Barbara Ess Fund for Artistic Expression in Photography Full Story
08-01-2024
Bard and Smolny College Graduate Released from Russia in Historic Prisoner Swap Full Story
July 2024
07-09-2024
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Welcomes Pavlina R. Tcherneva as New President Full Story
June 2024
06-27-2024
Bard Professor Peter Klein Receives Fulbright US Scholar Award Full Story
06-25-2024
Bard College Announces Two Recipients of Inaugural Anthony Lester Fellowships to Support Practical Work in the Field of Human Rights and the Rule of Law Full Story
06-18-2024
Bard College Receives $1 Million Grant from Burpee Foundation to Support the Creation of the Burpee Trial Garden at Montgomery Place Campus Full Story
06-17-2024
Al-Quds Bard Civic Engagement and Invisible University for Ukraine Win 2024 MacJannet Prizes Full Story
06-17-2024
Bard MFA Program Presents Off Site, the Class of 2025 Thesis Performances and Exhibition, July 11–21, at Basilica Hudson and Time & Space Limited in Hudson, New York Full Story
06-12-2024
Kingston Air Quality Initiative at Bard College Reports After Four Years of Monitoring Full Story
06-11-2024
The Zora Neale Hurston Writing Fellowship at Bard College Welcomes Five Writers for Its 2024 Summer Residency Program Full Story
06-04-2024
Bard College Professors Mona Simpson and Adam Shatz Awarded 2024–25 Berlin Prize Full Story
May 2024
05-29-2024
Bard College Names Dariel Vasquez ’17 Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Institutional Initiatives Full Story
05-20-2024
Bard College Student Madilyn Herring ’26 Wins Both Gilman International Scholarship and Freeman-ASIA Award for Study Abroad Full Story
05-15-2024
The Fisher Center at Bard Presents the World Premiere of Urban Bush Women’s Dance-Driven Jazz Club Spectacular, SCAT! The Complex Lives Of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar, as Part of Summerscape 2024, June 28–30 Full Story
05-15-2024
Bard College Receives Nearly $2.8 Million Grant from New York State Department of Education for Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program Full Story
05-14-2024
The Fisher Center at Bard Presents the World Premiere of Elevator Repair Service’s Ulysses, Which Brings the Epic James Joyce Novel to Wild Theatrical Life, June 20 – July 14, as Part of SummerScape 2024 Full Story
05-08-2024
CCS Bard to Double Capacity of Library and Archives with New Keith Haring Wing Full Story
05-07-2024
Two Bard College Graduates Win 2024 Fulbright Awards Full Story
05-01-2024
Bard Music Festival Explores Life and Times of Definitive French Romantic Composer in “Berlioz and His World” (August 9–18) as Part of Bard SummerScape 2024 Full Story
April 2024
04-30-2024
Exhibition Revisits Evolution of Carrie Mae Weems’ Socially Engaged Practice Across Four Decades Full Story