Bard Faculty Member Sayed Jafar Ahmadi Receives 2024 APA International Humanitarian Award

Bard College Research Scholar in Psychology Sayed Jafar Ahmadi has been selected as a recipient of the 2024 American Psychological Association (APA) International Humanitarian Award. Sponsored by APA’s Committee for Global Psychology, this award recognizes extraordinary humanitarian service and activism by a psychologist or a team of psychologists, including professional and/or volunteer work conducted primarily in the field with underserved populations.

The Lives They Lived: Wyatt Mason Writes about Cormac McCarthy for the New York Times Magazine

Wyatt Mason, writer in residence at Bard College and contributing writer for the New York Times magazine, writes about Cormac McCarthy’s tough-guy persona in a series looking back at some of the artists, innovators, and thinkers who died in 2023. “In a profile in the New York Times magazine of the era [of All the Pretty Horses],” Mason writes, “McCarthy talks about venomous snakes and grizzly bears, as though he had briefly descended from horseback before riding off into the evening redness. But as with most great writers, the essential truth was plainer: He was a nerd for the art.” 

Inside Higher Ed: Bard Among Those “Tackling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Classroom”

Michelle Murray, chair of the Division of Social Studies and associate professor of political studies, spoke with Inside Higher Ed about the efforts she and other Bard professors are taking in response to student demand for courses about the conflict in Gaza. “I was observing students, on the one hand, being really hungry for knowledge and, on the other hand, kind of encountering a lot of terminology that’s circulating around in the discourse,” Murray said. This led to the creation of the course “Keywords for Our Times: Understanding Israel and Palestine,” which has 40 students enrolled—larger than the typical class size at Bard.

New Public Artworks by Bard Students in Dutchess and Columbia Counties

Student Artwork Exhibited on Billboard in Hudson and in Temporary Installation in Richard Abraham’s Memorial Park in Red Hook

Bard Community Arts Collective and the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard are pleased to announce the installation of several student artworks in Dutchess County and Columbia County. How Long Will We Be Driving by Bard student James Wise ’26 is on view at a billboard located at 3391 US-9, Hudson, New York, through January 17. 

Bard Student Trudy Poux ’26 Stars in TV Pilot Do Nothings, a Musical Comedy about Their Nonbinary Coming-of-Age Experience

Trudy Poux ’26, a current theater and performance major at Bard, plays the lead character in the TV pilot Do Nothings, which tells the story of Tamarin, a teenage singer-songwriter plagued by paralyzing stage fright.