Facilities

Bard Campus

The Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation

This new state-of-the-art, 49,000-square-foot science facility, located alongside Sottery Hall, opened in the fall of 2007. Designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects, a New York City firm, the dramatic, two-story building includes nearly 10,000 square feet of laboratory space, including areas of specialized research such as a robotics lab, zebrafish facility, and cognitive systems lab. In addition to classroom space, the building features an auditorium capable of seating 65 people; three "smart classrooms" that are set up for multimedia sound and computer projections and videoconferencing; faculty offices; and a series of open spaces for studying, computer work, and informal meetings. The Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center will be the home of the computational and biological sciences.
Website: http://science.bard.edu/reem-kayden/

Henderson Computer Resources Center and Henderson Technology Laboratories

Academic computing at Bard College has experienced rapid growth since its origins in the mid-1980s, with hundreds of public-area computers distributed throughout the campus. These machines and related information technology services are managed from the Henderson Computer Resources Center (HCRC) and the Henderson Technology Laboratories, the campus's central computing facilities. The HCRC houses approximately 90 computers of different types and capabilities, including Macintosh and Windows-based PCs; specialized multimedia workstations; IBM RS/6000, Sun, and Linux workstations; X-station equipment; and an extensive software library. The Henderson Technology Laboratories building features a large, mixed Macintosh and Windows-based PC public computing lab, which is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and a PC-based computer classroom and video conference facility. A gigabit fiber-optic backbone network and 100Mb switched Ethernet link the College's various facilities and provide students and faculty with unlimited access to the Internet, e-mail, and the World Wide Web. Wireless networking zones (WiFi hotspots) are located in many places on campus, including residence halls, the library, Bertelsmann Campus Center, Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, and Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation.
Website: http://inside.bard.edu/hcrc

Hegeman Science Hall and the David Rose Science Laboratories

With the fall 2007 opening of The Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation, Hegeman Hall is slated to house the Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics Programs, and will be the likely future home of the quantitative social sciences. The Rose laboratories provide a wide range of equipment used for advanced science classes and faculty and student research. The Physics Program has a broad array of research electronics and optics equipment and nuclear-detection devices. The Chemistry Program's equipment includes UV/Vis and FT-IR spectrometers, a 300-MHz multinuclear FT-NMR, and a gas chromatograph–mass spectrometer. Divisional computing facilities include microcomputers for data acquisition and analysis and a network of RISC stations for advanced computing.

Bard College Field Station

The Bard College Field Station, built in 1971, is on the Hudson River near Tivoli South Bay and the mouth of the Sawkill. Its location affords research and teaching access to freshwater tidal marshes, swamps and shallows, perennial and intermittent streams, young and old deciduous and coniferous forests, old and mowed fields, and other habitats. A library, herbarium, laboratories, classroom, and offices are open to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and environmental researchers by prior arrangement. Also based at the field station are the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Hudsonia Ltd., a research institute. The field station is owned by the College and operated with support from the Research Reserve, Hudsonia, and other public and private funding sources.

Off-Campus

Simon's Rock College of Bard Fisher Science Building

Simon's Rock College of Bard's Fisher Science and Academic Center was named in honor of Overseer Emily Fisher and Trustee Richard Fisher whose extraordinary gifts, together with those of James M. Clark, Jr. '78 and the Penzance Foundation, made its construction possible, the Fisher Science and Academic Center houses the college's biology, chemistry, ecology, and physics laboratories; research labs for faculty and students; a greenhouse; computer and other classrooms and tutorial rooms; a 60-seat auditorium; and faculty offices.

Rockefeller University

Bard Students participating in the Bard-Rockefeller Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program and the The Bard-Rockefeller Semester in Science (BRSS) will have access to the facilities of Rockefeller University and their placement laboratories.
Website: http://www.rockefeller.edu/surf
Website: http://www.bard.edu/brss
Website: http://www.rockefeller.edu/surf