Dear Families,

Welcome families of first-year and transfer students! You have been subscribed to Bard’s monthly eNewsletter for Bard families: the Insider. The Insider provides you—and all Bard families—with news and important information. 

Thank you to all who generously donated to Bard before June 30, the end of the college’s fiscal year. We deeply appreciate the outpouring of support from Bard families and friends. To learn more about fundraising and Bard, feel free to take a look at our FAQs or ways to give.

As we prepare for the return of students there is still much happening on campus including SummerScape and the 34th annual Bard Musical Festival, and the Bard Summer Research Institute. If you find yourself near Annandale this summer, please consider joining us for a performance or late night dancing in the Spiegeltent. Let me know if you’re coming, so I can come say hello. The full schedule and tickets are on the Fisher Center website. If you are in NYC, be sure to consider seeing Illinoise, a Bard-commissioned work that premiered at last year’s SummerScape and won a Tony last month!

Also on campus are the current exhibitions at the Hessel Museum of Art at the Center for Curatorial Studies: Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger, Carrie Mae Weems: Remember to Dream and Start Making Sense.

Most importantly for an undergraduate College, of course, is the arrival of students. Bard will welcome over 500 new students for the Language and Thinking program. We are excited to meet our new families.



One of our best weekends will be here sooner than you think. Please save the date for Family and Alumni/ae Weekend: October 25-27, 2024. Please come to campus to experience Bard through concerts, tours, tastings, classes taught by our stellar faculty, and more. If you think you may be able to join us, I encourage you to book your accommodations as soon as possible.


Take care, and best wishes. 

We look forward to seeing many of you on Arrival Day on August 9.

Sincerely,
Sasha Boak-Kelly
Senior Director of Development
[email protected]

Bard Physicists Paul Cadden-Zimansky, Li-Heng Henry Chang ’23, Ziyu Xu ’23, and Shea Roccaforte ’21 Coauthor Cover Story in the American Journal of Physics

Associate Professor of Physics Paul Cadden-Zimansky and three recent Bard graduates Li-Heng Henry Chang ’23, Ziyu Xu ’23, and Shea Roccaforte ’21, have coauthored the cover story in the July 2024 issue of the American Journal of Physics. Their peer-reviewed research article, “Geometric visualizations of single and entangled qubits,” presents a new way of visualizing the phenomenon of quantum entanglement between two interacting objects.

Six Bard Student Athletes Honored in the 2024 Division III Academic All-District At-Large Teams

Six players from Bard College’s women’s lacrosse and men’s volleyball teams have been honored in the 2024 Division III Academic All-District At-Large Teams, an award that recognizes the nation’s top student athletes for their combined performance on the court and in the classroom.

Professor Lauren Rose Interviewed on the Today Show and in the New York Times about Using the Rubik’s Cube as a Teaching Tool

On the occasion of the Rubik’s Cube’s 50th anniversary, Associate Professor of Mathematics Lauren Rose was interviewed on the Today Show and quoted in the New York Times about using the Rubik’s Cube as a teaching tool. The Rubik’s Cube has 43 quintillion permutations. Rose, who can solve the cube in under a minute, uses the Rubik’s Cube to teach both math majors and non-STEM majors.

Bard Professor Peter Klein Receives Fulbright US Scholar Award

Peter Klein, associate professor of sociology and environmental and urban studies at Bard College, has received a 2024 Fulbright US Scholar Program Award for his project “The Favela and the Sea: Fishing, Urbanization, and Environmental (In)Justice in Rio de Janeiro.” The grant, sponsored by the Brazilian government, will support Klein’s work in Brazil for four months starting in August.

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.