Office of Undergraduate Research

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The Office of Undergraduate Research serves as a valuable resource for students who want to engage in research projects at Bard College. Our goal is to help students discern their own research paths, find a mentor, and connect to research funding and programs at Bard and beyond.

Have questions about undergraduate research?

The Office of Undergraduate Research provides guidance and resources to students interested in pursuing research.

Reach out to us today to make an appointment with a member of our team to learn more.
Contact: Craig Anderson, Director
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Where to Begin?

Get Started in Research

If you are interested in exploring undergraduate research or digging deeper into a discipline under the guidance of a faculty mentor, please contact us.

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Become a Mentor

Interested in mentoring and supervising undergraduate research? Please contact us!

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Research Presentations

Undergraduate students have opportunities to present their research as part of the research experience.

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Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Bard College offers research opportunities to students throughout their college careers, as well as intensive research experiences for students who want to work on their projects full time.

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Research Opportunities

Bard Summer Research Institute

Students in the Bard Summer Research Institute (BSRI) conduct eight-week investigations with Bard faculty during the summer months. Each student receives a stipend and works directly with a faculty mentor for the duration of the program. This is a time for both faculty and students to make significant headway on high-impact, publishable projects requiring full immersion, which is difficult to accomplish during the academic semesters. As a result of this program, since 2012, Bard faculty have produced over 35 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals with a multitude of undergraduate coauthors.
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Bard-Rockefeller Programs

The Bard-Rockefeller Semester in Science in New York City (BRSS) is an intensive one-semester program designed for advanced science students, particularly in the fields of neuroscience, biochemistry, molecular biology, developmental biology, biophysics, and genetics. Students spend a semester in New York City working in the laboratory with faculty from Rockefeller University and taking specially designed classes at Rockefeller and with Bard’s Globalization and International Affairs Program. BRSS takes place in the spring semester; students apply in early fall, and decisions are made by late fall.
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Resources and Funding

Visit the webpage for the Office of Institutional Support at Bard College for information about applying for grants at Bard, including guidance and information about funding through the National Science Foundation.
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Additional Study Opportunities

Bard offers a number of opportunities for learning outside the formal curriculum and course structure. Students in a range of majors may choose to pursue their own research. Pathways for independent work include special study and internship programs, study at another academic institution in the United States or abroad, and individual and group study projects.
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The Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing

Sciences at Bard

In the Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing at Bard, progressive and classical curricular elements lead to an active understanding of the concepts, methods, and contexts of these disciplines.
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Faculty in the Sciences

Faculty in the Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing at Bard are leading researchers, practicing scientists, and outstanding educators in biology, chemistry and biochemistry, computer science, mathematics, physics, and psychology.
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Facilities

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

This state-of-the-art, 70,000-square-foot science facility, home to the Biology, Chemistry, and Computer Science Programs, opened in 2007. The Lynda and Stewart Resnick Science Laboratories wing opened in 2009. Designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects, a New York City firm, the dramatic, two-story building includes nearly 17,000 square feet of dedicated laboratory space. Biology equipment in the facility includes DNA and protein electrophoresis instruments, a digital gel imaging system, an array of standard PCR machines, a Real-Time PCR machine, two fluorescent microscopes, and a wide range of ecology field equipment.
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Instrumentation

Our instruments and facilities include a 400-MHz NMR, ICP-OES, Fluorimeters, Potentiostats, GCMS, LCMS, HPLC, UV-Vis, ITC, Combiflash, Microplate Readers, dedicated lab for isotopic labeling of DNA, RNA, and proteins, Microwave Reactors, Raman & FTIR spectrometers in addition to an ultrafast Ti:sapphire laser as part of a state-of-the-art laser lab.
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Undergraduate Research News

Brooke Jude and Robert Todd Receive Grant to Support an Undergraduate Research Experience in Microbial Mapping

Glenn W. Bailey Foundation grant supports undergraduate students from both SUNY Dutchess and Bard College with an immersive, collaborative research opportunity in the Jude and Todd biology labs.

Bard College Astronomer Shuo Zhang and Undergraduate Student Rose Xu Discover New X-ray Flares from the Galactic Center Supermassive Black Hole Sgr A*

Bard College Assistant Professor of Physics Shuo Zhang and Bard mathematics and dance major Rose Xu ’23 were invited by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to present their most recent findings on new x-ray flares from the now inactive supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Their talk, “Detection of Seven High-Energy X-ray Flares from the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole,” was presented at the 241st AAS press conference on January 12 in person in Seattle and virtually.