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Kingston Air Quality Initiative at Bard College Reports After Three Years of Monitoring

The Center for the Environment Sciences and Humanities at Bard College is pleased to announce the findings of the Kingston Air Quality Initiative (KAQI) after three consecutive years of research and data collection. KAQI began in January 2020 as a partnership between Bard’s Community Sciences Lab and the City of Kingston Conservation Advisory Council’s Air Quality Subcommittee. Since then, Kingston residents and Bard College students, staff, and faculty have facilitated both indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring projects throughout Ulster County.

Kingston Air Quality Initiative at Bard College Reports After Three Years of Monitoring

The Center for the Environment Sciences and Humanities at Bard College is pleased to announce the findings of the Kingston Air Quality Initiative (KAQI) after three consecutive years of research and data collection.

KAQI began in January 2020 as a partnership between Bard’s Community Sciences Lab and the City of Kingston Conservation Advisory Council’s Air Quality Subcommittee. Since then, Kingston residents and Bard College students, staff, and faculty have facilitated both indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring projects throughout Ulster County. Standing as the first air quality study of its kind in Kingston, KAQI’s monitoring efforts focus on a regional assessment of air pollution as measured from the roof of the Andy Murphy Neighborhood Center on Broadway in Kingston.

KAQI’s main monitoring efforts focus on a regional assessment of air pollution from fine particulate matter (PM2.5), made up of microscopic particles that are the products of burning fuel, and is released into the air through exhausts from oil burners, gas burners, automobiles, cooking, grilling, and both indoor and outdoor wood burning. PM 2.5 particles are so tiny, they stay suspended in the air for long periods of time, allowing them to travel long distances before depositing. When these particles are inhaled, they can enter the bloodstream through the lungs, creating or exacerbating health issues. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that “small particulate pollution has health impacts even at very low concentrations – indeed no threshold has been identified below which no damage to health is observed.”

After 3 years of monitoring in Kingston, air quality trends associated with daily activities are observable. The findings show that air pollution in the city is variable and appears to have a seasonal context—higher levels of pollution are shown during colder months (associated with fuel burning), and lower levels are generally seen in spring and summer. The difference between levels seen during 2020—when COVID shut down many activities and resulted in a decrease in vehicles on the road—and pollution levels detected in years since is also significant.

Two important measures of PM2.5 air quality are the annual mean standard and the 24-hour average standard. Kingston’s PM2.5 air quality met the annual standards of both the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the WHO, although it came close to exceeding the latter. For the 24-hour standard, air quality met the EPA’s but exceeded the WHO’s.

As of January, 2023, a revision was proposed to change the EPA's primary public health-based annual standard from its current level of 12.0 micrograms per meter squared  to the range of 9.0-10.0 micrograms per meter squared. This revision would lean closer toward, but not come close to meeting, the WHO's PM 2.5 annual standard of 5 micrograms per meter squared.  Based on the EPA annual mean calculations, these values come close to exceeding the WHO annual standard.

 
KAQI_Graph

One factor associated with instances of air quality breaching the WHO’s 24-hour threshold is the development of atmospheric inversions, which occur when the temperature of the atmosphere increases instead of decreases with altitude and surface level air parcels are unable to rise up, trapping any present air pollution at ground level. Being in the Hudson Valley, Kingston is more susceptible to inversion events as the air is blocked from all directions.  It's possible that, if Kingston residents were aware of when these events are occurring, we could start making different decisions about woodburning and car use during these times to make our air cleaner for all. Another potential factor may be pollutants from smoke carried from wildfires on the West Coast.

More detail about KAQI’s findings can be found at the Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities website: https://cesh.bard.edu/kingston-air-quality-initiative-kaqi/

“While our annual averages meet EPA standards, as many residents of Kingston and the surrounding areas know, air quality at ground level can vary widely from neighborhood to neighborhood,” said Lorraine Farina, co-founder of KAQI  and the Hudson Valley Air Quality Coalition, and former Kingston CAC air quality sub-committee chair. “The average adult takes in 1000 breaths per hour, and exposures to dangerous fine particulate matter very much depend on whether wood is being burned nearby, as burning wood is dirtier and more polluting than burning oil, gas, or coal. There is no safe level of exposure to PM 2.5, so the expanding neighborhood-level monitoring efforts of the Bard Community Science Lab will help residents understand the actual air quality right where they are breathing, so we can all make choices that benefit both our health and that of the planet.”

“I want to thank Bard and the Community Sciences Lab for allowing Kingston to participate in this initiative,” said Steve Noble, the mayor of Kingston. “I am pleased to see that our air quality is superior to many of the places around us, but it’s a profound reminder that our daily activities do impact our health, and the health of our environment. We appreciate Bard’s investment in monitoring Kingston’s air, as it has been an invaluable learning tool. Together with Kingston’s Conservation Advisory Council, we will continue to monitor local air quality alerts, and will continue to work together with leaders in our region on policy and initiatives for cleaner air.” 

Dr. Eli Dueker, co-director of the Bard Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities, added, “Clean air is something we often take for granted in the Hudson Valley. Our findings show that meeting annual EPA standards (particularly current standards) is one thing, but on a day-to-day basis, our air quality is sometimes degraded and can be unhealthy. After all, we are not breathing on an average yearly basis—we are breathing on a second-by-second basis. We can make decisions as a community to keep our own air clean – for example, we could reduce or even stop our wood-burning in city limits (particularly on days with atmospheric inversions), reduce our car use, and make our homes more energy efficient.”
The Center for the Environment Sciences and Humanities at Bard College, in collaboration with KAQI, has been working on a handful of air quality related projects centralized around community needs and concerns. These include:
  • Developing a publicly-accessible atmospheric inversion monitoring system for the Kingston area.
  • Neighborhood-level air quality monitoring, through the fast-developing Hudson Valley Library Air Quality Network. Using outdoor real-time air quality monitoring devices stationed at public libraries, air quality data is free and accessible online. We are always looking for new locations throughout the Hudson Valley to add to the network and provide more localized data for residents. If any libraries are interested, please reach out to [email protected].
  • In partnership with SUNY-Albany, conducting indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring in homes with woodsmoke, mold and structurally-related air quality challenges.

For more information or ways to get involved, please visit https://kingston-ny.gov/airquality or https://cesh.bard.edu/kingston-air-quality-initiative-kaqi/.

Post Date: 06-05-2023

Bard Student Research on Housing Justice Cited in Times Union Article “Evicted in Kingston: Voices from a Crisis”

According to a recent Times Union article, the city of Kingston, New York, doesn’t keep track of corporate housing ownership. “But Kwame Holmes, a professor at Bard, and his class did a deep dive on a chunk of Midtown Kingston in 2020, which led to some revealing findings,” the article cites. “Of 481 Midtown properties, non-locals owned 275 . . . Limited liability corporations owned 87 properties, 10 of which shared names with corporate landlords operating in states across the country.” 

Bard Student Research on Housing Justice Cited in Times Union Article “Evicted in Kingston: Voices from a Crisis”

According to a recent Times Union article, the city of Kingston, New York, doesn’t keep track of corporate housing ownership. “But Kwame Holmes, a professor at Bard, and his class did a deep dive on a chunk of Midtown Kingston in 2020, which led to some revealing findings,” the article cites. “Of 481 Midtown properties, non-locals owned 275 . . . Limited liability corporations owned 87 properties, 10 of which shared names with corporate landlords operating in states across the country.” 

In 2020, Kwame Holmes, scholar in residence in the Human Rights Program at Bard, taught a class that examined how housing inequity manifests in Kingston and other areas of Ulster County. Holmes and 13 of his students geocoded and collected information on hundreds of properties in Kingston’s Midtown section to study the data on property ownership and its impacts on the city’s residents. “These dynamics illustrate the extent to which land in Kingston is a site of profit extraction, and very little of that capital directly benefits local residents,” states the Bard report, which produced findings that were shared with community leaders and stakeholders. The class, Housing Justice Lab, was a collaboration of Bard’s Environmental and Urban Studies and Human Rights programs and part of the Bard Center for Civic Engagement Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences Program.

Further Reading
Bard College Human Rights Professor and Students Study Urban Displacement and Gentrification with Kingston Housing Lab
 
Read more in the Times Union

Post Date: 05-16-2023

Myra Young Armstead Spoke with the Times Union about the Life and Legacy of James F. Brown, “One of the Country’s First Black Master Gardeners”

While slave narratives—“first-person retellings of the enslaved experience”—were persuasive to white abolitionists and widely distributed, quieter but no less important details about the early years of emancipation can be found in the diaries of one of the country’s first Black Master Gardeners, James F. Brown. Myra Young Armstead, vice president for academic inclusive excellence and Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical Studies, spoke with the Times Union about Brown’s life and legacy.

Myra Young Armstead Spoke with the Times Union about the Life and Legacy of James F. Brown, “One of the Country’s First Black Master Gardeners”

While slave narratives—“first-person retellings of the enslaved experience”—were persuasive to white abolitionists and widely distributed, quieter but no less important details about the early years of emancipation can be found in the diaries of one of the country’s first Black Master Gardeners, James F. Brown. Myra Young Armstead, vice president for academic inclusive excellence and Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical Studies, spoke with the Times Union about Brown’s life and legacy. “In the period before the Civil War, freedom in the most obvious sense for a runaway meant emancipation,” Armstead said. “It also meant freedom from wage slavery, and freedom to operate in the civic sphere. We can explore the many meanings of freedom in the antebellum period through James’s diary.”
Read More in the Times Union

Post Date: 02-14-2023
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  • Associate Professor of Biology Brooke Jude to Lead Regenerative Dye Research as Part of Daughters for Earth Grant

    Associate Professor of Biology Brooke Jude to Lead Regenerative Dye Research as Part of Daughters for Earth Grant

    As part of one of 26 women-led projects in 17 countries, Associate Professor of Biology Brooke Jude will participate in a project to regenerate natural fabric dyeing processes with traditional Moroccan weavers as part of a Daughters for Earth grant awarded to Around the World in 80 Fabrics. “These grants, totaling over $600,000, are a part of our mission to deliver critical resources into the hands of the women on the frontlines of climate action,” says Daughters for Earth of this year’s grant winners. Professor Jude will lead microbial dye foraging alongside our natural plant dye research as part of a team that “will bring together traditional weavers, researchers, designers, textile experts, scientists, anthropologists, and businesswomen to create sustainable dyeing processes that Ain Leuh Women's Cooperative can use.” The cooperative, which was founded by local women in the Atlas Mountain region of Morocco, has used traditional weaving techniques to support their families for decades. Today, because of the pressures of demand from global trade, synthetic dyes are used more frequently, produced with chemicals that impact weaver health and the environment. The collaboration between the Ain Leuh Cooperative, Artisan Project, Around the World in 80 Fabrics, the Microbe Institute, and Bard College will help to create “an open-source natural dye, plant, and microbial resource book with a map and dye recipes,” with the goal of improving the health of Ain Leuh weavers and the health of the local ecosystem.
     
    Learn More about Daughters for Earth
    Learn More about Professor Jude’s Project

    Post Date: 01-08-2023
  • Peter L’Official Interviews Architect and Writer Sekou Cooke on Hip-Hop as a Blueprint for Architecture

    Peter L’Official Interviews Architect and Writer Sekou Cooke on Hip-Hop as a Blueprint for Architecture

    For Architectural Record, Bard Associate Professor of Literature and Director of the American and Indigenous Studies Program Peter L’Official interviews architect and writer Sejou Cooke, who is the curator of Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture, an exhibition on view at the Museum of Design Atlanta through January 29, 2023. 

    In the interview, L’Official quotes from Cooke’s 2021 book Hip-Hop Architecture: “Many have managed to exist simultaneously as successful architects and Black. Few have managed to express their Blackness through their architecture. Within hip-hop culture lies the blueprint for an architecture that is authentically Black with the power to upend the racist structures within the architectural establishment and ignite a new paradigm of creative production.” L’Official references Toni Morrison’s “unapologetic use of codes embedded in Black culture” and “her own struggle for writing that was ‘indisputably black,’” asking Cooke “Does Hip-Hop Architecture also strive for an architecture that is, after Morrison, ‘indisputably black?’”
    Read the interview in Architectural Record

    Post Date: 12-06-2022
  • 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 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

    Associate Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies M. Elias Dueker, Associate Professor of Biology Gabriel G. Perron, and Bard biology graduates Daniella Azulai ’17 and Mary Reid ’21 have copublished a new study, “Bacteria communities and water quality parameters in riverine water and sediments near wastewater discharges,” in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Data. ​​Over five months, they monitored microbial contaminants relating to the treated water outflow of the wastewater treatment plant operated by Bard, which releases into the Saw Kill, a tributary of the Hudson River and also the source of fresh water for the campus. This is the first of many datasets and research papers that they hope to publish on Bard’s water system. Preliminary data analyses provide insight into the impacts of watershed-wide usage of the Saw Kill as both drinking water source and treated sewage receiver. Future use of this dataset will include a focus on endotoxins and antibiotic resistant bacterial genes, water contaminants only now gaining broader attention in water quality and microbiological sciences.

    All of the sampling was conducted as a joint Bard Summer Research Institute project between Dueker’s lab and Perron's lab in summer 2015. Lab members included: Marco Spodek ’17, Beckett Lansbury ’16, Yuejiao Wan ’17, Pola Kuhn ’17, Haley Goss-Holmes ’17. Coauthors Azulai and Reid worked on this project both as undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students.

    “This project demonstrates the power of community asking scientific questions, and academia–students, faculty, and staff–being able to help answer those questions through careful observational and applied research,” said Dueker. “Our hope is that this database serves as a tool for researchers and communities around the world trying to respond to stewardship challenges in a science-based and community-accessible way.”
    Read the full study in Scientific Data
    Bard CESH Sawkill Monitoring Program

    Post Date: 10-04-2022
  • “What Is a Pond?”: New Study Coauthored by Bard Professor Robyn L. Smyth Featured on ScienceDaily

    “What Is a Pond?”: New Study Coauthored by Bard Professor Robyn L. Smyth Featured on ScienceDaily

    Nearly everyone can identify a pond, but what, exactly, distinguishes it from a lake or a wetland? Robyn L. Smyth, Bard Center for Environmental Policy faculty member and term associate professor of environmental and urban studies, is coauthor of a new study featured on ScienceDaily that offers the first data-driven, functional definition of a pond and evidence of ponds’ distinct ecological function, which could have broad implications for science and policy.

    Understudied and largely left out of federal and state monitoring and protection programs, ponds are often poorly distinguished from lakes or wetlands. This neglect has implications for the accuracy of climate modeling, as ponds are high emitters of greenhouse gases, and their contribution to the global carbon budget is uncertain. In their study, coauthors wanted to evaluate how scientists and policymakers define ponds and examine whether ponds are functionally distinct from lakes and wetlands. Their findings conclude: Ponds are small and shallow waterbodies, with a maximum surface area of five hectares, a maximum depth of 5 meters and less than 30% emergent vegetation.
    Read more on ScienceDaily

    Post Date: 08-30-2022
  • Bard Professor Peter L’Official Wins Rabkin Prize for Visual Art Journalism

    Bard Professor Peter L’Official Wins Rabkin Prize for Visual Art Journalism

    Peter L’Official, associate professor of literature and director of the American Studies Program at Bard College, has won a Rabkin Prize of $50,000 for his work in visual art journalism. L’Official is one of eight visual art journalists to receive a Rabkin Prize from the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation. Jurors for this sixth cycle of awards were: Eric Gibson (Arts in Review editor of the Wall Street Journal), Sasha Anawalt (Professor Emerita of Journalism at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism), and Paul Schmelzer (Founder of The Ostracon: Dispatches from Beyond Contemporary Art’s Center).

    “I am humbled to be recognized among such a brilliant group of fellow recipients by the Rabkin Foundation. Thank you to the jurors, the anonymous nominators, the Rabkin Trustees, and—most especially—to all the editors and writers and readers who make the work of arts criticism both possible and worthwhile,” said L’Official.

    Peter L’Official (he/him) is a writer, arts critic, and teacher of literature and American studies from The Bronx, NY. He is an associate professor in literature and director of the American Studies Program at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, where he teaches courses in African American literature and culture, twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature, and on how the visual arts intersect with literature, place, and architecture. He is also the project coordinator for “Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck,” a grant supported by the Mellon Foundation “Humanities for All Times” Initiative. 

    L'Official is the author of Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin, published by Harvard University Press in 2020. His writing has appeared in Artforum, The Believer, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, The Village Voice, and other publications, and he is on the editorial board of The European Review of Books. He has written catalogue essays for exhibitions by artists such as Carl Craig and Becky Suss, and his next book project will explore the intersections of literature, architecture, and Blackness in America. L’Official has a B.A. in English from Williams College, and an M.A. in Journalism from New York University’s Cultural Reporting and Criticism program. He received his Ph.D. in American studies from Harvard University, and was formerly a fellow at the Charles Warren Center for American History at Harvard University in 2014-15. 

    Now in its sixth cycle, the Rabkin Prize started in 2017. To date, the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation has given a total of $2,775,000 to individual art writers. The award program is by nomination only. A distinguished group of 16 nominators, working in the visual arts in all parts of the country, provided the list of potential winners. The nominators were asked to identify, “The essential visual art journalist working in your part of the country.” Candidates for the award submitted two recent published articles and a brief curriculum vita. Writers can be re-nominated and are eligible until they win a Rabkin Prize. This is an annual program and a central initiative of the foundation.

    This cycle’s other winning journalists include: Shana Nys Dambrot (Los Angeles); Bryn Evans (Decatur, Georgia); Joe Fyfe (New York City); Stacy Pratt (Tulsa); Darryl F. Ratcliff, II (Dallas); Jeanne Claire van Ryzin (Austin); Margo Vansynghel (Seattle). 

    Post Date: 07-19-2022
  • Professor Gidon Eshel Rejects the Inevitability of Famine in Our Present Moment, Offering Alternatives in Bloomberg

    Professor Gidon Eshel Rejects the Inevitability of Famine in Our Present Moment, Offering Alternatives in Bloomberg

    As the world contends with a looming famine crisis, Gidon Eshel, research professor of Environmental and Urban Studies, rejects the narrative of inevitability, offering pragmatic solutions to save millions from going hungry. In the short term, the global livestock feed stockpile of “over 250 million tons of wheat, barley, oats, and other cereals” could be redirected to “lifesaving human food,” Eshel writes for Bloomberg. Long term, reductions in the consumption of beef could accomplish similar ends toward more efficient utilization of wheat and grains. Regardless, famine is not a foregone conclusion, Eshel argues, but rather one that the world, collectively, is choosing. “If, as predicted, millions will soon go hungry, it will not be a ‘Putin famine’ but a readily preventable famine of choice, arising because the people and leaders of wealthy nations have decided that preventing it is too inconvenient,” he concludes.
    Read More in Bloomberg

    Post Date: 05-17-2022

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Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs. 

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WHAT WILL BE COVERED?   Overview of graduate program offerings Alumni success and career outcomes Admissions information Prerequisite course information Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs Financial aid and scholarships Tips for a standout application 
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MS in Environmental Policy
MS in Climate Science and Policy
MBA in Sustainability
 
Dual degree options include:
MS/JD with Pace Law School 
MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching 
MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability 

Peace Corps Programs
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Friday, November 19, 2021
Chapel of the Holy Innocents  12:30 pm – 2:00 pm EST/GMT-5
A panel discussion with artists John Ruppert, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak and EH Media Corps member Nikki Goldberg. Facilitated by curator, Danielle O'Steen.

This panel coincides with the closing of the 2021 Wilderstein Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, which highlights the work of artists who experiment with not only unexpected materials but also curious scale and unfamiliar viewing modes as tools for creating new, site-responsive installations. Curated by Krista Caballero, Co-Director of the Center for Experimental Humanities at Bard College and Julia B. Rosenbaum, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Bard College.

Please note: all visitors to Bard campus must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask while inside. For questions, please contact: [email protected] RSVP here: https://forms.gle/Qt52E52d8t4abamC6


Friday, November 12, 2021
Hudson Valley Seed Co. 4737 US-209, Accord, NY 12404  2:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Join the Bard Farm for a tour of this iconic local seed operation - given to us personally by Co-founder K Greene!

Transportation is available. Van will leave Kline at 1:15pm and return to campus by 5pm.

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Tuesday, November 2, 2021
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Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team. 

WHAT WILL BE COVERED?   Overview of graduate program offerings Alumni success and career outcomes Admissions information Prerequisite course information Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs Financial aid and scholarships Tips for a standout application 
Degree Options
Degree options include:
MS in Environmental Policy
MS in Climate Science and Policy
MBA in Sustainability
 
Dual degree options include:
MS/JD with Pace Law School 
MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching 
MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability 

Peace Corps Programs
Master's International (before you serve) 
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Bard Farm  4:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Come celebrate the end of our growing season over a craft drink, light snacks, live music and activities including pumpkin painting and a scarecrow building contest with prizes. This event is scheduled for the Bard Farm however we may need to change locations due to potential rain. Follow us on Instagram for the latest developments. This event is open to the campus community who have submitted their daily health screening and are permitted to be on campus.


Thursday, October 28, 2021
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Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Thursday, October 21, 2021
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Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Thursday, October 14, 2021
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021
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Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs. 

ABOUT
Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information. 

Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team. 

WHAT WILL BE COVERED?   Overview of graduate program offerings Alumni success and career outcomes Admissions information Prerequisite course information Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs Financial aid and scholarships Tips for a standout application 
Degree Options
Degree options include:
MS in Environmental Policy
MS in Climate Science and Policy
MBA in Sustainability
 
Dual degree options include:
MS/JD with Pace Law School 
MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching 
MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability 

Peace Corps Programs
Master's International (before you serve) 
Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)  

A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Margo Bogossian at [email protected] for further details.

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Thursday, October 7, 2021
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Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Thursday, September 30, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Thursday, September 23, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Thursday, September 16, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Join and receive a $65 application fee waiver!
Online Event  7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
<<<< RSVP HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/166861708863 >>>>

Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs. 

ABOUT
Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information. 

Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team. 

WHAT WILL BE COVERED?   Overview of graduate program offerings Alumni success and career outcomes Admissions information Prerequisite course information Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs Financial aid and scholarships Tips for a standout application 
Degree Options
Degree options include:
MS in Environmental Policy
MS in Climate Science and Policy
MBA in Sustainability
 
Dual degree options include:
MS/JD with Pace Law School 
MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching 
MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability 

Peace Corps Programs
Master's International (before you serve) 
Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)  

A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Margo Bogossian at [email protected] for further details.

<<<< RSVP HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/166861708863 >>>>


Tuesday, September 14, 2021
A Virtual Panel and Discussion with Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Kathleen Blee
Online Event  5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Although white supremacist movements have received renewed public attention since the 2017 violence in Charlottesville and the attack on the U.S. Capitol, they need to be placed in deeper historical context if they are to be understood and combated. In particular, the rise of these movements must be linked to the global war on terror after 9/11, which blinded counterextremism authorities to the increasing threat they posed. In this panel, two prominent sociologists, Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Kathleen Blee, trace the growth of white supremacist extremism and its expanding reach into cultural and commercial spaces in the U.S. and beyond. They also examine these movements from the perspective of their members’ lived experience. How are people recruited into white supremacist extremism? How do they make sense of their active involvement? And how, in some instances, do they seek to leave? The answers to these questions, Miller-Idriss and Blee suggest, are shaped in part by the gendered and generational relationships that define these movements.
 Cynthia Miller-Idriss is Professor in the School of Public Affairs and the School of Education at American University, where she directs the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL).  
Kathleen Blee is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.  If you would like to attend, please register here.  Zoom link and code will be emailed the day of the event. 

 


Thursday, September 9, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Learn how a group of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers leveraged their service into a successful and impactful career in sustainability.
Online Event  7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
<<< RSVP HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/145776857505 >>>

ABOUT 
Interested in leveraging your past (or future) Peace Corps service into a sustainability career? Join a panel of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers to learn how they successfully transitioned from the Peace Corps to careers in sustainability. 

DEGREE OPTIONS
Degree options Include: MS in Environmental Policy MS in Climate Science and Policy MBA in Sustainability 
Dual Degree Options Include: MS/JD with Pace Law School  MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching  MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability 
Peace Corps Programs Include: Master's International (before you serve)  Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)  
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Margo Bogossian at [email protected] for further details.

<<< RSVP HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/145776857505 >>>


Thursday, September 2, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Thursday, August 26, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Thursday, August 19, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Tuesday, August 17, 2021
  Join and receive a $65 application fee waiver!
        

Online Event  7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
<<<< RSVP HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/164996845005 >>>>

Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs. 

ABOUT
Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information. 

Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team. 

WHAT WILL BE COVERED?   Overview of graduate program offerings Alumni success and career outcomes Admissions information Prerequisite course information Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs Financial aid and scholarships Tips for a standout application 
Degree Options
Degree Options Include:
MS in Environmental Policy
MS in Climate Science and Policy
MBA in Sustainability
 
Dual Degree Options Include:
MS/JD with Pace Law School 
MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching 
MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability 

Peace Corps Programs Include:
Master's International (before you serve) 
Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)  


A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Margo Bogossian at [email protected] for further details.

<<<< RSVP HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/164996845005 >>>>


Thursday, August 12, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Thursday, August 5, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Thursday, July 29, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Thursday, July 22, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Thursday, July 15, 2021
  "Underused Plants of the Arboretum"
Flagpole at Kline Commons  12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Join us for a leisurely stroll around the campus to explore some of the beautiful trees, shrubs, and perennials that make up our landscape. Horticulture senior staff talks about Bard's unique specimens, what's in bloom, and staff favorites. Our Bard Arboretum walks are now open to the public again. They take place rain or shine and are free of charge. We look forward to seeing you!


Thursday, July 15, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Thursday, July 8, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Thursday, July 1, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Thursday, June 24, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Thursday, June 17, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Thursday, June 10, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Tuesday, June 8, 2021
  Join and receive a $65 application fee waiver!
        

Online Event  7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
RSVP HERE

Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs. 

ABOUT
Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information. 

Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team. 

WHAT WILL BE COVERED?   Overview of graduate program offerings Alumni success and career outcomes Admissions information Prerequisite course requirements Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs Financial aid availability Tips for a standout application DEGREE OPTIONS
Degree Options Include:
MS in Environmental Policy
MS in Climate Science and Policy
MBA in Sustainability
 
Dual Degree Options Include:
MS/JD with Pace Law School 
MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching 
MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability 

Peace Corps Programs Include:
Master's International (before you serve) 
Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)  

A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Margo Bogossian at [email protected] for further details.

RSVP HERE


Thursday, June 3, 2021
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  12:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
 


Friday, May 14, 2021
  Saw Kill  10:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.

Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.

Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.

Open to everyone. Free training is available.

If interested, please contact:
Lindsey Drew
Bard Water Lab Manager
[email protected]


Thursday, May 13, 2021
  A simulation addressing SDG 13 Climate Action
Campus Center, Lawn  4:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Become an environmental leader in climate action. This simulation will allow you and your friends to step into the shoes of a political leader or stakeholder to make active climate decisions for your given industry or country, based on real climate policy, to efficiently reduce carbon emissions. You will leave this event knowing the importance of science communication in making environmental changes in our complex world, and be given the "next steps" that you as an individual can take (today) to make changes in your community. This simulation is based off of MIT's En-Roads software for climate solutions.

This event will be outdoors so please dress properly, and bring picnic blankets to sit on.
We will have goody bags when you depart!

ANYONE IS WELCOME (you don't have to be a science major:) We look forward to seeing you there!
sign up if you can: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZ0IuKmRwRtQBUUY8xgfOqPtEmXHsgr_88-UdCv4pdStMKew/viewform
~Your peers from EUS 407, hosted by Robyn Smyth of Bard College.


Thursday, April 22, 2021
White Nationalism, White Supremacy, and the Environmental Movement
Online Event  5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
National experts Eric Ward, Scot Nakagawa, and Lindsay Schubiner will lead the Bard community, regional community leaders, and Hudson Valley NGOs in exploring connections between white supremacy, the growth of white nationalism, and the environmental movement over the past 30 years.

Eric K. Ward is a nationally-recognized expert on the relationship between authoritarian movements, hate violence, and preserving inclusive democracy. In his 30+ year civil rights career, he has worked with community groups, government and business leaders, human rights advocates, and philanthropy as an organizer, director, program officer, consultant, and board member. The recipient of the Peabody-Facebook Futures Media Award, Eric’s widely quoted writings and speeches are credited with key narrative shifts. He currently serves as Executive Director of Western States Center, Senior Fellow with Southern Poverty Law Center and Race Forward, and Co-Chair for The Proteus Fund.

Scot Nakagawa is senior partner of ChangeLab, a national racial equity think/act lab addressing issues of demographic change and the transformation of racial identity and meaning in the United States in context of globalization, including the rise of white nationalism and of right wing nationalist movements in communities of color.

Lindsay Schubiner directs Western States Center’s program to counter the dangerous ascension of white nationalism and hate violence across the country. She previously led advocacy efforts against anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim bigotry at the Center for New Community. Lindsay has served as a congressional staffer handling housing, health, and immigration policy, and managed advocacy for sexual health and rights at American Jewish World Service.

https://bard.zoom.us/j/6091568866


Wednesday, April 21, 2021
  Engage with professionals working in sustainable supply chains for advice and tips on launching your high impact career in the field.
Online Event  6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
RSVP HERE 

Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability are pleased to host a webinar series providing aspiring change-makers access to sustainability experts to gain tips on launching their own careers in sustainability.

Leaders in sustainable supply chain management create sourcing relationships with environmentally sound and socially just upstream producers worldwide, with the goal of creating organizations in service to a sustainable and equitable future. Join this conversation to hear from thought leaders who have been at the forefront of building sustainable supply chains to learn how they launched and grew their career, what tips they have for high impact careers in the industry, and what they look for in their new hires. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of panelists.

RSVP HERE


Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Part of the series A Start to Healing Through Land, Forest, and Seed, organized by BardEATS students
Online Event  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
The short film Seeds of Hope will precede the talk.

Speakers:
K Green (Seedshed Codirector and Hudson Valley Seed Company Founder)
Kenny Perkins (Ohero:kon rites of passage, Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment Horticulturist)

Registration link below.


Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Part of the series A Start to Healing Through Land, Forest, and Seed, organized by BardEATS students
Online Event  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Panelists include:  Shaniqua Bowden, Head of Cultural Engagement, Kingston Land Trust Nfamara Badjie, Ever Growing Family Farm, and Alexander Wright, founder of the African Heritage Food Co-Op and Blegacy Farms.This panel will give space for each speaker to discuss the work they are doing in relation to land sovereignty, food sovereignty, cultural resistance/resilience, and land access work for and by Black folks.

The moderator will ask the speakers questions about their thoughts on different topics surrounding land dispossession, land/food sovereignty, and land access work.

There will be a 20-minute period at the end of the panel discussion for community members to ask questions.

Registration link below.


Tuesday, April 20, 2021
A talk by artist and filmmaker Marwa Arsanios 
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
In this talk, Marwa Arsanios will present the research she has been conducting since 2017, which took her to different geographies such as Iraqi Kurdistan and southern Colombia, and to the encounter of different women's communes and feminist cooperatives that are directly resisting the dispossession of their land and resources and fighting for a "diprivatization" and a communalization process. Working at the intersection of feminist, ecological, and land struggles, they are often making paradigmatic shifts that Arsanios will try to articulate. She will also talk about her position as an artist and researcher in relation to their struggles, especially when it comes to their theoretical and political paradigms. 
 
Marwa Arsanios is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher who reconsiders politics of the mid 20th century from a contemporary perspective, with a particular focus on gender relations, urbanism, and industrialization. She approaches research collaboratively and seeks to work across disciplines. Arsanios has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Skuc gallery in Lujubljana (2018); Beirut Art Center (2017); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2016); Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2015); and Art in General, New York (2015). Her work has also been shown in a number of group exhibitions, including the Warsaw Biennial (2019), Sharjah Biennial (2019), Gwangju Biennial (2018), Lulea Biennial (2018), Let’s Talk About the Weather, Sursock Museum, Beirut (2016); Thessaloniki Biennial (2015); Home Works Forum, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2010, 2013, 2015); Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York (2014); 55th Venice Biennale (2013); and 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011), among others. Arsanios is the recipient of the Georges de Beauregard award at FID Marseille (2019) and the Special Prize of the Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize (2012). She was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany (2014), and the Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo Arts and Space (2010). She is the cofounder of the 98weeks Research Project. Arsanios received a master's of fine art, University of the Arts London (2007), and was a researcher in the Fine Art Department, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2011–12). She is currently a PhD candidate at the Akademie der bildenden Kunst in Vienna. 

This event is organized in conjunction with MES301, Solidarity as Worldmaking.

Tuesday, April 20, 3pm Annandale / 9pm Berlin / 10pm Abu Dis
 


Monday, April 19, 2021
Part of the series A Start to Healing Through Land, Forest, and Seed, organized by BardEATS students
Online Event  5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Guest speaker Heather Bruegl, the cultural affairs director for the Stockbridge- Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians, will speak about the history of the Mohican people on this land as well as provide a space for action-oriented discussions on what the Bard community can do to be better allies for the Stockbridge-Munsee community while residing on their former homelands.

The event will include both a lecture and time for an open discussion.

Registration link below.


Sunday, April 18, 2021
Part of the series A Start to Healing Through Land, Food, and Seed, organized by BardEATS students
Online Event  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Kick off Earth week with a screening of Gather, “an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.”

Gather follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona) opening an indigenous café as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota) conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California) trying to save the Klamath river.


Friday, April 9, 2021
  Saw Kill  10:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.

Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.

Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.

Open to everyone. Free training is available.

If interested, please contact:
Lindsey Drew
Bard Water Lab Manager
[email protected]


Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Global Climate Dialog / Solve Climate by 2030
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
6:15 to 7 pm Climate Solutions Panel webinar
What does a Green Recovery Look Like in New York?
Join us for a panel of thought leaders who provide their perspective on what a green recovery in NY would entail,  the one most impactful action that can be taken and how students can advocate for change. 
Panelists include: Sarah Orban Salati, Executive VP and Commercial Officer, New York Power Authority  Simeon Banister VP of Community Programs, Rochester Community Foundation  Jodi Smits Anderson, Director of Sustainability, Dormitory Authority State of NY 7 to 8 pm
Breakout sessions
Participants will choose from a variety to topics to further discuss climate solutions in areas such as: Divestment, Sustainable Investing, Sustainability and Justice, Global Action on Sustainability, Developing Sustainable Policy
Registration: https://bit.ly/3l2v69r
For more info, contact [email protected]
 #MakeClimateAClass


Thursday, April 1, 2021 – Friday, April 30, 2021
A one-month team climate competition 
Online Event  Bardians engaging with climate solutions through this online competition will have a greater understanding of how we can reverse global warming. Log in to sign up for Bard + Community Team via the URL provided or find the competition at earthmonth.ecochallenge.org.


Wednesday, March 24, 2021
  Engage with leaders in advocacy and lobbying for advice and tips on launching your high impact career in the field.
Online Event  6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
RSVP HERE 

Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability are pleased to host a webinar series providing aspiring change-makers access to sustainability experts to gain tips on launching their own careers in sustainability.

Lobbying and advocacy is about “changing the rules” in government and business, getting rid of bad laws and policies and putting in place good ones to build a sustainable, equitable, and just future. Join this conversation to hear from thought leaders who have been leaders in lobbying for sustainability policy changes to learn how they launched and grew their career, what tips they have for high impact careers creating the field, and what they look for in their new hires. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of panelists.

RSVP HERE


Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Online Event  5:15 pm – 6:45 pm EDT/GMT-4
Environmental and infrastructural transformations in Turkey’s expansive swamps and marshes have unfolded against the backdrop of tightening authoritarian rule and the rise of wetland conservation. Drawing on fieldwork with farmers, scientists, and bureaucrats in two Turkish agrarian deltas, this talk explores how relationships between water, sediment, infrastructure, plants, and animals matter in contemporary Turkey, and what these relationships reveal about the intersection of moral and ecological concerns in the current moment. The “wetland” emerged as a globally significant scientific category over the course of the 20th century, becoming a key concept within Turkish state-making projects built on attempts to manipulate swampy nature. As transnational science and environmentalism cast the wetland in a starring role, Turkish farmers, scientists, and bureaucrats also drew on wetlands (sulakalanlar) as a novel idiom for claiming divergent ecological futures. I analyze these transformations between humans, non-humans, and their unstable surroundings in Turkey through the concept of moral ecologies—contrasting notions of just relations among people, land, water, infrastructure, animals, and plants. Divergent moral claims about ecology, infrastructure, and the livelihood of nonhuman animals have become central to a Turkish politics of livability. This approach to the wetlands of contemporary Turkey demonstrates how the valuation and governance of non-human creatures and elemental assemblages are not only entangled with human politics: they constitute it. 

Caterina Scaramelli is an anthropologist of the environment and science. After completing her PhD at MIT's History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society Program, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Humanistic Inquiry and in the Anthropology Department at Amherst College, and an Agrarian Studies postdoctoral associate at Yale. Currently, she is research assistant professor in the departments of Anthropology and of Earth and Environment at Boston University. Scaramelli's research addresses practices and politics of environmental expertise and the political ecology of conservation. Her fieldwork in Turkey has focused on the making and unmaking of watery places—rivers, wetlands, marshes, urban waters, and agricultural irrigation—and now she is studying the cultivation and contested meanings of "local" agricultural seeds. Her first book, How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey, was published in March 2021 with Stanford University Press.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://bard.zoom.us/j/88142814000?pwd=S2ZqRVZoQVVnMTFQekdwc3RWbG5zdz09
Meeting ID: 881 4281 4000
Passcode: 337474


Tuesday, March 16, 2021
We'll be in-person in NYC this fall!
Online Event  6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Join us to learn more about the BGIA program, our courses, internships and our in-person semester in NYC this fall.



To apply for  the fall '21 semester, please visit: https://bard.studioabroad.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=41053


Friday, March 12, 2021
  Saw Kill  10:30 am – 12:30 pm EST/GMT-5

As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.

Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.

Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.

Open to everyone. Free training is available.

If interested, please contact:
Lindsey Drew
Bard Water Lab Manager
[email protected]


Wednesday, February 17, 2021
  Attendees receive a $65 application fee waiver!
Online Event  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5
RSVP HERE

Join us for an online Open House hosted by the Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability.

Attendees will hear from a panel of current students and alumni of Bard's MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy. Our panel of student/alum experts will discuss topics such as: career outcomes -- how the MS and MEd degrees at CEP and the MBA in Sustainability have led to impactful sustainability careers the program experience -- highlights on courses and key features at Bard (including the NYCLab course and the CEP internship) how to get the most of your graduate school journey -- career development + student engagement opportunities at Bard how to make your application stand out -- tips on perfecting your application materials, advice on getting through the graduate school admissions processIn addition: Program Director Eban Goodstein will provide an overview of the program offerings at Bard CEP and the MBA in Sustainability.

Our Admissions staff will also be on hand to provide information on the application process and answer questions regarding: financial aid opportunities successfully completing program prerequisites 
RSVP HERE

Event Location: This event will be held via Zoom. Access details will be shared with attendees upon event registration.


Friday, February 12, 2021
  Saw Kill  10:30 am – 12:30 pm EST/GMT-5
As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.

Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.

Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.

Open to everyone. Free training is available.

If interested, please contact:
Lindsey Drew
Bard Water Lab Manager
[email protected]


Wednesday, January 27, 2021
  Engage with professionals working to support inclusive workplaces for advice and tips on launching your high impact career in the field.
Online Event  6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5
RSVP HERE!

Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability are pleased to host a webinar series providing aspiring change-makers access to sustainability experts to gain tips on launching their own careers in sustainability.

Inclusive Workplace Panel: Rhodes Perry, Consultant, Author of Belonging at Work. Erika White, D&I Manager, ASM Global Kristina Kohl, Consultant, Author of Becoming a Sustainable Organization Kiana Cardwell (moderator), Cause StrategyLeaders in inclusive workplaces are reimagining how businesses can dismantle internal systems of discrimination and injustice, all with the goal of create organizations in service to a sustainable, equitable, and just future. Join this conversation to hear from thought leaders who have been at the forefront of building inclusive workplaces to learn how they launched and grew their career, what tips they have for high impact careers creating impact finance, and what they look for in their new hires. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of panelists.

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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
  Kline Bus Stop  1:45 pm – 3:45 pm EST/GMT-5
Bard's 1,000-acre campus hosts dozens of amazing walking trails, some more explored than others. Join us for a weekly campus walk that is sure to enhance your mental and physical health and a deeper appreciation for this incredible land. Meet in front of Kline bus stop. Must preregister by emailing [email protected].


Wednesday, January 13, 2021
  Kline Bus. Stop  1:45 pm – 3:45 pm EST/GMT-5
Bard's 1,000-acre campus hosts dozens of amazing walking trails, some more explored than others. Join us for a weekly campus walk that is sure to enhance your mental and physical health and a deeper appreciation for this incredible land. Meet in front of Kline bus stop. Must preregister by emailing [email protected].


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