Two Bard College Faculty Members Named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships to Bard College Assistant Professor of Photography Lucas Blalock ’02 and Bard College Visiting Artist in Residence Gwen Laster. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 3,500 applicants, Blalock, who teaches in the Photography Program, and Laster, who teaches in the Music Program, were tapped based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise.
Ella Walko ’26 Recognized for Voter Registration, Education, and Turnout Efforts
Bard College and the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge (ALL IN) honored Ella Walko ’26 as part of the fourth annual ALL IN Student Voting Honor Roll. Walko is one of 232 students who mobilized their fellow students to make their voices heard in a historic election cycle. At Bard, she is majoring in politics with a concentration in gender and sexuality studies and is actively involved with Election@Bard. Read More >>Bard College Holds One Hundred Sixty-Fifth Commencement on Saturday, May 24, 2025
Former Prime Minister of Haiti Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis will give the 2025 Commencement address. Bard President Leon Botstein will confer 485 undergraduate degrees on the Class of 2025, 192 graduate degrees, and 53 associate degrees from its microcolleges. The program will begin at 2:30 pm in the commencement tent on the Seth Goldfine Memorial Rugby Field. Read More >>More Bard News
- The Fisher Center at Bard Announces Programming for the Spiegeltent at Bard SummerScape 2025, June 27 – August 16
- Walter Russell Mead on Trump’s Trade Wars and the Global Order
- BHSEC Baltimore Student Writes About the School’s Impact for The74
- Bard Student Able Bloodgood ’25 Wins Peace Corps Fellowship
- Bard Students Win Top Three Places at NYCC Greek and Latin Recitation Contest
- Smolny Beyond Borders Hosts Conversation with Sasha Skochilenko ’17