Bard student Mahlia Slaiby ’27. Photo by Pearllan Cipriano

Mahlia Slaiby ’27 Recruited to Lebanon’s National Women's Soccer Team

Bard student Mahlia Slaiby ’27 has been recruited to Lebanon’s Futsal National women’s soccer team. Slaiby will join Lebanon’s team as a defender and will accompany them to the qualifying match for the FIFA Futsal Womens’ Cup in May 2025.

Bard math alumna Mona Merling ’09. Photo courtesy of AWM

Alumna Mona Merling ’09 Wins Association for Women in Mathematics 2025 Joan and Joseph Birman Research Prize

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) has awarded Bard math alumna Mona Merling ’09 the 2025 Joan and Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry. “I would not be here today without the many amazing women I was lucky to have as role models at every step of the way,” she says and cites “my undergraduate mentor at Bard College, Lauren Rose, who early on inspired me about both research and teaching.”

R.H. Quaytman ’83.

R.H. Quaytman ’83 Interviewed About New Works Created for Frieze Magazine

Celebrated artist R.H. Quaytman ’83 was invited to create new works for Frieze magazine's September issue to accompany an essay about Gertrude Stein’s poem, “If I Told Him: A Portrait of Picasso.” She responded with a series of images using abstract and photographic elements, which she discusses with Marko Gluhaich, associate editor of Frieze.

Bard alumna Rikki Ducornet ’64 and her novella The Plotinus.

Rikki Ducornet ’64 Reviewed in the New York Review of Books

The novella The Plotinus by Bard alumna Rikki Ducornet ’64 was reviewed in the New York Review of Books. Ducornet’s fifteenth work of fiction, The Plotinus incorporates an authorial style the NYRB calls “[something] between astringent honesty, madcap fantasy, and rapturous lyric.”

Felicia Keesing, David and Rosalie Rose Distinguished Professor of Science, Mathematics, and Computing at Bard College.

Bard Professor Felicia Keesing Receives Award From American Society of Mammalogists

Felicia Keesing, the David and Rosalie Rose Distinguished Professor of Science, Mathematics, and Computing at Bard College, is the recipient of the 2024 C. Hart Merriam Award from the American Society of Mammalogists.