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
Hilina Berhanu Degefa (an expert on women’s rights, public policy, and advocacy from Ethiopia) and Marian Alejandra Da Silva Parra (a human rights lawyer from Venezuela) are the first recipients of the inaugural Anthony Lester Fellowships, administered by the Human Rights Project at Bard College. Degefa will use the fellowship to work to combat proposals to legalize female genital mutilation in The Gambia. Marian Da Silva Parra will develop a project to train and support local human rights defenders in Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Trinidad and Tobago. Each fellow will receive a stipend of $25,000.
Bard College Receives $1 Million Grant from Burpee Foundation to Support the Creation of the Burpee Trial Garden at Montgomery Place Campus
Bard College has been awarded a $1 million grant to be paid over four years toward supporting the Burpee Trial Garden, which will be located at the Montgomery Place Campus. The trial garden will revitalize the fallow lawn beds at Montgomery Place that historically grew vegetables and flowers and will engage Bard students in horticultural research and hands-on scientific investigation with real-world applications. Read More >>Commencement Season Across the Bard Global Network
This paper, which is part essay and part memoir, provides a series of snapshots from the 2024 commencement season across Bard’s global network, roughly a four-week period from the middle of May to the middle of June 2024. While the commencements described here occurred during a relatively short period of time, the very fact that so many students were able to graduate is the result of years of work in response to the tumult that occurred around the globe during the four years since most graduating seniors entered university in the fall of 2020. Read More >>More Bard News
- Bard College President Leon Botstein Named among the Carnegie Corporation’s 2024 Class of Great Immigrants
- Bard Professor Peter Klein Receives Fulbright US Scholar Award
- Ulysses by Elevator Repair Service, Commissioned by the Fisher Center, Is a New York Times Critic’s Pick
- Six Bard Student Athletes Honored in the 2024 Division III Academic All-District At-Large Teams
- Bard Music Professor Marcus Roberts Performs in Gala Concert to Inaugurate Philadelphia Orchestra’s Newly Named Marian Anderson Hall
- Omar G. Encarnación for New York Times Opinion: “America Got Gay Marriage, but It Came at a Cost”