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October 2013
10-27-2013
Musician Donald Fagen has penned a literary memoir focusing on his musical influences, not stardom.
10-26-2013
Lawyer, statesman, author, and (soon-to-be) television personality Ronan Farrow '04 has the resume of someone twice his age.
10-21-2013
Where privatization and charity fail, investments in watershed services can solve the global water crisis, writes CEP alumna Karen Corey.
10-18-2013
Bard College and Simon's Rock alum Ronan Farrow '04 has a new MSNBC show and a book in the works.
10-17-2013
Lilly Bechtel '09 harnesses the healing power of yoga in her work with veterans who are coping with post-traumatic stress disorder.
10-16-2013
Bard College Master of Arts in Teaching (Bard MAT) graduate Colleen Bucci ’08 has been named a New York State Master Teacher by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. Bucci is one of 104 educators from four regions to be selected as the first group of New York State Master Teachers. Bucci, who graduated from the Bard MAT Program in 2008, is a biology teacher in the Hyde Park Central School District.
10-16-2013
Larissa Phillips examines the social, environmental, and parenting implications of hunting for food.
10-16-2013
Composer Sung Jin Hong '03 plans to stage his new mini-opera Breaking Bad—Ozymandias next year. The piece will combine elements of the hit show with Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet "Ozymandias."
10-15-2013
Alumni/ae Day and Family Weekend will take place on campus October 25–27. Join us for a variety of events, including What's New at Bard, the Ask the President forum, sample classes, performances by the American Symphony Orchestra, campus tours, and panel discussions. Click below to view the full program.
10-15-2013
How do you turn a graphic novel into a musical? Broadway veterans took the unconventional childhood memoir Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel A.A. '79, and adapted it for the stage.
10-15-2013
City Year volunteers work as tutors, classroom assistants, and after-school program leaders to give struggling students a boost in U.S. cities. Jennifer Spadaccia '13 is among the 42 young adults providing academic support in New Orleans schools with City Year.
10-14-2013
Bard alumnus, actor, and filmmaker Andrew Gilchrist '05 discusses his new film, Sea Pig, which recently won Best Short Film at both the Kansas City Film Festival and the Coney Island Film Festival.
10-10-2013
Canadian and Omaskêko Cree artist and Bard alumnus Duane Linklater MFA '13 has won the nation's Sobey Art Award for contemporary artists under the age of 40.
10-10-2013
Gabriel Blau '02 founded the God and Sexuality National Academic Conference at Bard in 1998. These days, he's advocating for LGBT families as the new executive director of the Family Equality Council.
10-08-2013
Meher Varma '07 encourages international students to consider studying in the United States by relating some of the best things about being at Bard.
10-04-2013
The Bard Prison Initiative is expanding. This summer the program opened two new campuses in New York State, one of which restored BPI's program for women after Bayview Correctional Facility in Manhattan was closed after Hurricane Sandy. BPI has more students enrolled in its programs and a more diverse array of classes than ever before. In June, the program hosted a conference on the liberal arts in prison with its growing consortium of national partner organizations. BPI has also hired three new site directors, all of whom are Bard alumni/ae: classicist Rana Al-Saadi Liebert '01, writer Joe Vallese '06, and sculptor Pamela J. Wallace '87.
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