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Photo by Pete Mauney ’93 MFA ’00
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Professor Christian Crouch.
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Photo by Chris Bertholf
Christian Crouch Named Dean of Graduate Studies at Bard College
Bard College announces the appointment of Professor Christian Crouch as the incoming Dean of Graduate Studies, beginning July 1, 2021. Professor Crouch has been Associate Professor of History and Director of American Studies at Bard since 2014. Her work focuses on the histories of the early modern Atlantic, comparative slavery, American material culture, and Native American and Indigenous Studies. Professor Crouch succeeds Professor Norton Batkin, who stepped down on September 1 after 15 years as Dean of Graduate Studies. During his tenure, Norton Batkin oversaw the growth and success of Bard’s graduate programs.
Graduate Alumni/ae News
Photographs by Pete Mauney ’93 MFA ’00 “Are Shedding New Light on How Fireflies Interact with the World,” Says NPR
Pete Mauney ’93 MFA ’00 says his photographs of fireflies can range from “a spa for the eyes” to “almost pure chaos.” For NPR, Lara Pellegrinelli spoke with Mauney, who has spent almost a decade photographing fireflies in the Hudson Valley, using Photoshop to painstakingly compile hundreds of timed exposures into a single image. The images, Pellegrinelli writes, are catching the eye of artists and scientists alike, sparking the interest of researchers pursuing “new evidence that firefly swarms can synchronize their flashes.”Photographs by Pete Mauney ’93 MFA ’00 “Are Shedding New Light on How Fireflies Interact with the World,” Says NPR
Post Date: 08-15-2022
Bard College Hosts Environmental Summer Camp in China
This summer, Lobsang Sonam, who received an M.Ed in Environmental Education from Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability in 2021, led Bard’s first environmental education summer camp in China. Fifteen students in grades 9–11 participated in the immersive two-week sleepover camp hosted at the Old Creek Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province.Bard College Hosts Environmental Summer Camp in China
Bard College Environmental Summer Camp Students in Old Creek Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province, China.
With Bard College at Simon’s Rock Geography and Asian Studies Professor Chris Coggins as adviser, the camp was developed to encourage students in thinking critically about local environmental issues, nurturing a strong sense of environmental protection and stewardship, and conducting their own service-learning projects.
Post Date: 08-09-2022
Michelle Aboodi MBA ’21 Named to GreenBiz “30 Under 30” List
Greenbiz has named Bard MBA alumna Michelle Aboodi to its 2022 “30 Under 30” list. Aboodi has a passion for sustainable sourcing, which she’s brought to roles at Unilever and, now, Converse. “Aboodi hopes to contribute to creating cutting-edge products that people want to buy, partly because they understand how they’re made,” write the editors at Greenbiz. “It’s become far too easy to just throw things away,” says Aboodi. “What I’d like to see for anything that involves production and making of things is how we can be less wasteful and more cognizant of all that we’re producing.”Michelle Aboodi MBA ’21 Named to GreenBiz “30 Under 30” List
Post Date: 07-26-2022