Press Releases by Date
June 2021
06-13-2021
U.S. Department of State Awards Bard Undergraduate Student Grace Molinaro ’24 Critical Language Scholarship to Study Arabic During Summer 2021 Full Story
06-11-2021
Bard College Awarded 2021–22 Big Read Grant from National Endowment for the Arts for Community-Wide Reading Program in Red Hook, Rhinebeck, and Kingston Full Story
06-09-2021
Bard Summerscape Announces Casting for “Most Happy In Concert,” Conceived by Tony Award Nominee Daniel Fish and His Oklahoma! Music Collaborators Daniel Kluger and Nathan Koci Full Story
06-02-2021
Bard College’s Award-Winning Literary Magazine Conjunctions Celebrates the Launch of Its 40th Anniversary Issue with an Online Reading Hosted by Oblong Books on June 4 Full Story
06-02-2021
Yarran Hominh to Join Faculty of Bard College Philosophy Program in Fall 2022 Full Story
May 2021
05-31-2021
Bard College Holds One Hundred Sixty-First Commencement on Saturday, May 29, 2021 Full Story
05-27-2021
Bard Faculty Erika Switzer and Lucy Fitz Gibbon Share $30,000 National Endowment for the Arts Grant Full Story
05-25-2021
Isabel Snodgrass ’18 Awarded Fulbright Scholarship to Study the Relationship Between Indigenous Knowledge and Experiential Education in Samoa Full Story
05-21-2021
Bard College Professor Valeria Luiselli Wins Prestigious 2021 Dublin Literary Award for Her Novel Lost Children Archive Full Story
05-20-2021
Two Bard College Students Win Highly Competitive Gilman Study Abroad Scholarships Full Story
05-20-2021
Bard SummerScape Presents Black Roots Summer, a Cross-Genre Series of Concerts Organized by Curator-Educator-Producer Musicians Michael Mwenso and Jono Gasparro, July 23–31, Outdoors at Montgomery Place Full Story
05-18-2021
Political Theorist Lucas G. Pinheiro to Join Faculty of Bard Political Studies Program in Fall 2022 Full Story
05-18-2021
Award-Winning Playwright Daaimah Mubashshir to Join Bard’s Theater and Performance Program as Playwright in Residence in Fall 2021 Full Story
05-13-2021
James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music Christopher H. Gibbs Awarded 2021–22 Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin Full Story
05-11-2021
Art Historian Heeryoon Shin Joins Faculty of Bard College’s Art History and Visual Culture Program Full Story
05-11-2021
Bard College Appoints Political Theorist Mie Inouye to Tenure Track Faculty Position in Political Studies Program Full Story
05-11-2021
Bard College Names Ranjani Atur Inaugural Recipient of the Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship in Classical Studies Full Story
05-10-2021
Bard SummerScape Presents Live World Premiere of I was waiting for the echo of a better day: Major New SummerScape Dance Commission from Choreographer in Residence Pam Tanowitz and Composer Jessie Montgomery (July 8–10) Full Story
05-03-2021
Bard College Holds One Hundred Sixty-First Commencement on Saturday, May 29, 2021 Full Story
April 2021
04-29-2021
Bard SummerScape Is Back with Adventurous Lineup of Live Performances in New York’s Hudson Valley This Summer (July 8 – August 15) Full Story
04-15-2021
Bard College Receives $500 Million Endowment Pledge from Investor and Philanthropist George Soros Full Story
04-14-2021
Five Bard Faculty and Bard MFA Faculty and Graduates Awarded 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships Full Story
04-13-2021
A Diversity of Wildlife Is Good for Our Health, Says New Paper Led by Bard Biology Professor Felicia Keesing Full Story
04-12-2021
Leading Economists and Policymakers to Discuss the Prospects and Challenges for the U.S. and European Economies as They Emerge From the Pandemic at the Levy Economics Institute’s 29th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference, May 5–6 Full Story
04-09-2021
Brothers@Bard Hosts National Virtual Event and Panel Discussion April 22 on Closing Opportunity Gaps for Young Men of Color Full Story