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Research Presentations
Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Bard College offers research opportunities to students throughout their college careers, as well as intensive research experiences for students who want to work on their projects full time.
Resources and Funding
Visit the webpage for the Office of Institutional Support at Bard College for information about applying for grants at Bard, including guidance and information about funding through the National Science Foundation.
Additional Study Opportunities
The Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing
Facilities
This state-of-the-art, 70,000-square-foot science facility, home to the Biology, Chemistry, and Computer Science Programs, opened in 2007. The Lynda and Stewart Resnick Science Laboratories wing opened in 2009. Designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects, a New York City firm, the dramatic, two-story building includes nearly 17,000 square feet of dedicated laboratory space. Biology equipment in the facility includes DNA and protein electrophoresis instruments, a digital gel imaging system, an array of standard PCR machines, a Real-Time PCR machine, two fluorescent microscopes, and a wide range of ecology field equipment.
Instrumentation
Undergraduate Research News
Bard College Astronomer Shuo Zhang and Undergraduate Student Rose Xu Discover New X-ray Flares from the Galactic Center Supermassive Black Hole Sgr A*
Bard College Assistant Professor of Physics Shuo Zhang and Bard mathematics and dance major Rose Xu ’23 were invited by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to present their most recent findings on new x-ray flares from the now inactive supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Their talk, “Detection of Seven High-Energy X-ray Flares from the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole,” was presented at the 241st AAS press conference on January 12 in person in Seattle and virtually.
Bard College Team Wins Mid-Hudson Chemistry College Bowl Trivia Competition
The Bard College chemistry team won the Mid-Hudson American Chemical Society College Bowl Trivia Competition, competing against regional college and high school AP teams. On the evening of Wednesday, October 26 at Vassar College, Bard chemistry students Monika Dziubelski ’24, Sasha Fraser ’24, Elan Ricarte ’23, and Kris Tulloch ’24 competed against Vassar, Marist, SUNY New Paltz, and others to take home top honors. This was the first time a Bard team had entered the competition. Bard got off to a slow start against Vassar in the final round until Ricarte answered the question, “Who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?”, which went to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for their work on CRISPR gene editing. Their research is central to Ricarte’s Senior Project.
- Bard Biologists Elias Dueker, Gabriel Perron, Daniella Azulai ’17, and Mary Reid ’21 Copublish Study on the Impacts of Wastewater Treatment Discharge in Saw Kill River
- Bard Chemistry Professor Craig Anderson’s Lab Publishes Study on Luminescent Metal Compounds with Several Bardian Coauthors
- Professor Bruce Robertson and Two Bard Grads Coauthor a New Paper on Potential Impact of Light Pollution for Aquatic Insects
- Senior Project by Isabel Polletta ’20 MAT ’21 Leads to Published Study on Regulation of Self-Image on Instagram
- Senior Project Spotlight: Sasha Fedchin ’20
- Bard Memory Lab’s Michael Greenberg ’20 Wins Grant for Mindfulness Research Proposal