Biology
John B. Ferguson,
Professor of Biology; Health Professions Advisor
Philip Johns,
Assistant Professor of Biology
Brooke Jude,
Assistant Professor of Biology
Felicia Keesing,
Associate Professor of Biology; Adjunct Faculty, MAT Program
William T. Maple,
Professor of Biology; Director, Bard College Field Station; Director, Environmental Studies Program; Faculty, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Catherine O'Reilly,
Assistant Professor of Biology
Michael Tibbetts,
Associate Professor of Biology; Director of Biology Program; Faculty, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Chemistry
Craig Anderson,
Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry Program Director
Swapan Jain,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Emily McLaughlin,
Assistant Professor Chemistry
Kim Touchette,
Visiting Professor of Chemistry
Hilton M. Weiss,
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, David and Rosalie Rose Research Professor
Computer Science
Sven Anderson,
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Robert W. McGrail,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Mathematics
Keith O'Hara,
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
S. Rebecca Thomas,
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Math
James Belk,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Maria Belk,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ethan Bloch,
Professor of Mathematics; Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College
Melvin Chen,
Associate Director of the Conservatory; Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
John Cullinan,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Clíona Golden,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Mark Halsey,
Associate Dean of the College; Associate Professor of Mathematics; Adjunct Faculty, MAT Program
Samuel K. Hsiao,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Mary Krembs,
Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program; Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Gregory D. Landweber,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Lauren Lynn Rose,
Associate Professor of Mathematics; Chair, Division of Science, Mathmatics, and Computing; Director, Mathematics Program; Faculty, Master of Arts in Teaching
Physics
Christian Bracher,
Assistant Professor of Physics
Burt Brody,
Professor of Physics
Matthew Deady,
Professor of Physics; Director, Physics Program; Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College
Gidon Eshel,
Bard Center Fellow in Environmental Studies
Simeen Sattar,
Professor of Chemical Physics
Peter D Skiff,
Professor of Physics; Codirector, Science, Technology, and Society Program
Faculty Biographies
Craig Anderson
Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry Program Director
B.Sc., M.Sc., University of Western Ontario; Ph.D., Université de Montréal. Research associate, University of Barcelona, Spain; research director, Orgometa Laboratories, Montreal (1998–2001). Awards include Chemical Institute of Canada’s Award of Excellence, Andrew E. Scott Medal and Prize, Society of Chemical Industry Award. Many articles in scholarly journals, including
Organometallics, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Canadian Journal of Chemistry. (2001– ) Professor of Chemistry.
Phone: 845-752-2356
E-mail: canderso@bard.edu
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Sven Anderson
Associate Professor of Computer Science
B.A., University of Virginia, Charlottesville; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington. Recipient: National Science Foundation grant; National Institutes of Health grant for research on phonological awareness in children with language impairment. Research and teaching interests include artificial intelligence, speech recognition, and spoken human/computer interfaces. Articles have appeared in
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Journal of Phonetics, Computational Neuroscience, and Neural Representation of Temporal Patterns. (2002– ) Associate Professor of Computer Science.
Phone: 845-758-2322
E-mail: sanderso@bard.edu
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James Belk
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
B.S., M.A., Binghamton University; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University. Main research area is combinatorial and geometric group theory; other research areas include geometric topology, dynamical systems, random walks and Brownian motion, mathematical physics. National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Texas A&M University (2005– ); visiting assistant professor, Cornell (2004–05). Recipient, Battig Prize for Excellence and Promise in Mathematics (2003). (2008– )
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Phone: 845-758-7162
E-mail: belk@bard.edu
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Maria Belk
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
B.A., Carleton College; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University. Research interests include discrete geometry, computational geometry, graph theory. Faculty, Texas A&M University (2005–09); has also taught at Cornell. (2009– )
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Director of Quantitative Literacy.
Phone: 845-758-7162
E-mail: mbelk@bard.edu
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Ethan Bloch
Professor of Mathematics; Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College
B.A., Reed College; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University. Instructor, University of Utah (1983–86). Author,
A First Course in Geometric Topology and Differential Geometry (1996), Proofs and Fundamentals: A First Course in Abstract Mathematics (2000). Articles in Topology, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Topology and Its Applications, Discrete and Computational Geometry, Fundamenta Mathematicae, Israel Journal of Mathematics, Beiträge zür Algebra und Geometrie, and Geometriae Dedicata. Recipient, National Science Foundation grant (1985–87). Member, American Mathematical Society. Specialization: geometric topology. Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College. (1986– ) Professor of Mathematics.
Phone: 845-758-7266
E-mail: bloch@bard.edu
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Christian Bracher
Assistant Professor of Physics
M.S., Ph.D., Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. Physicist; areas of research include quantum ballistic motion and its applications, sojourn time problem in quantum mechanics. Has taught at California State University, Long Beach (2006–08) and Bryn Mawr College (2005–06); conducted postdoctoral research at The College of William and Mary (2004–05) and Max Planck Institut for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany (2000). (2008– )
Assistant Professor of Physics.
Phone: 845-758-7302
E-mail: bracher@bard.edu
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Burt Brody
Professor of Physics
B.A., Columbia College; Ph.D., University of Michigan. Founder, Integrated Research and Technology, Inc.; systems analyst, OLI Systems; research professor, Columbia University (1981–97). Published in
Physical Review, American Journal of Physics, Laser Chemistry, Journal of the Optical Society of America, Optics News, The Physics Teacher, Foundations of Physics, and conference proceedings. (1970– ) Professor of Physics.
Phone: 845-758-7229
E-mail: brody@bard.edu
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Melvin Chen
Associate Director of the Conservatory; Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
B.S. (chemistry and physics), Yale University; M.M. (violin), M.M. (piano), The Juilliard School; Ph.D. (chemistry), Harvard University. Honors and awards: W. R. Grace Fellowship, Harvard University; Henri Kohn Award, Tanglewood Music Center; Jacob Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education; Pierre Mayer Award to outstanding violinist, Tanglewood Music Center; New Prize, Yale University. Musical performance: member, Chamber Music Society, Lincoln Center; Bargemusic; Music from Angelfire; Chamber Music Northwest. CD releases with violinist Juliette Kang (KBS). Taught music at Yale School of Music, Holy Cross College.
Associate Director, The Bard College Conservatory of Music. (2001– ) Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies.
Phone: 845-758-7173
E-mail: mchen@bard.edu
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John Cullinan
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
B.A., Bates College; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Has taught at Colby College and University of Massachusetts. (2006– )
Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Phone: 845-758-7104
E-mail: cullinan@bard.edu
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Matthew Deady
Professor of Physics; Director, Physics Program; Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College
B.S., M.S., University of Illinois; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Assistant professor of physics, Mount Holyoke College. Research experience: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bates Linear Accelerator Center; NIKHEF; University of Illinois. Articles in journals including
Physical Review, Technology Review, and American Journal of Physics. Current research includes nuclear physics, mathematical physics, and musical acoustics. Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program. Codirector, First-Year Seminar (2007– ). (1987– ) Professor of Physics.
Phone: 845-758-7216
E-mail: deady@bard.edu
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Gidon Eshel
Bard Center Fellow in Environmental Studies
B.A., Haifa University, Israel; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Specializes in oceanography, climatology, geophysics. Senior Fellow, Center for Environmental Science and Argonne National Laboratory (2002–07); principal investigator, Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science, University of Chicago (2001–03); assistant scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1998–99). Assistant professor, University of Chicago (1999–07). Author,
Geophysical Data Analysis (Princeton University Press, 2008). Faculty, Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College (2008– ). (2008– ) Bard Center Fellow.
Phone: 845-758-7232
E-mail: geshel@bard.edu
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John B. Ferguson
Professor of Biology; Health Professions Advisor
Sc.B., Brown University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Harvard University (1974–76); National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Yale University (1969–72). Research: biochemistry, especially enzymology of
Tetrahymena pyriformis. Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences, Society of the Sigma Xi. Author, reviews and articles in Experientia, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Science Books and Films, New Columbia Encyclopedia, and Microsoft Encarta 97. (1977– ) Professor of Biology.
Phone: 845-752-2333
E-mail: ferguson@bard.edu
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Clíona Golden
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
B.Sc., M.Sc., University College Dublin; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University. Research interests include gravitational wave detector analysis and analysis of fMRI data in neuroscience. Recipient, Fulbright Graduate Student Award (1998); other honors. Member, Institute of Physics, Irish Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America. Has taught at New York University, Princeton University, University College Dublin. (2008– )
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Phone: 845-758-7508
E-mail: golden@bard.edu
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Mark Halsey
Associate Dean of the College; Associate Professor of Mathematics; Adjunct Faculty, MAT Program
B.A., Hobart College; A.M., Ph.D., Dartmouth College. Assistant professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1984–89). Member, American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America; full fellow, Institute for Combinatorics and Its Applications. Articles in
Discrete Mathematics, Discrete Applied Mathematics, and Journal of Combinatorial Theory. National Science Foundation grants for pure and applied discrete mathematics research experience for undergraduates (1988–89) and advanced computing environment for the sciences (1991–93). Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College. (1989– ) Associate Professor of Mathematics.
Phone: 845-752-2336
E-mail: halsey@bard.edu
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Samuel K. Hsiao
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
B.S., Haverford College; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University. National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan. Articles in
Advances in Mathematics, Discrete and Computational Geometry, Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Member, American Mathematical Society, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, American Statistical Association, Mathematical Association of America. (2006– ) Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Phone: 845-758-7191
E-mail:
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Swapan Jain
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
B.S., Kennesaw State University; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology. Postdoctoral faculty fellow, Boston University. Current research at Tullius Laboratory involves understanding the mechanism of RNA cleavage by using hydroxyl radical as a chemical probing agent. Articles in
Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chimie Internationale Edition; papers in Journal of Chemical Education, others. (2009– ) Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
Phone: 845-752-2354
E-mail: sjain@bard.edu
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Philip Johns
Assistant Professor of Biology
B.A., Carleton College; M.Sc., Ph.D., University of Chicago. Taught at University of Maryland, Swarthmore College, Villanova University, University of Chicago. Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health Neuroethology Training Program, University of Maryland; Century Graduate Fellow, University of Chicago. Numerous publications, presentations, and professional activities related to evolutionary genetics. (2007– )
Assistant Professor of Biology.
Phone: 845-752-2338
E-mail: johns@bard.edu
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Brooke Jude
Assistant Professor of Biology
B.A., Colby College; Ph.D., Dartmouth College. Recipient, Albert J. Ryan Fellowship for Biomedical Sciences; training fellowships, National Institutes of Health. Current research focuses on attachment factors for aquatic vibrio-related microorganisms. Has taught at Colby College; served as mentor, Dartmouth College Women in Science Program. Former research assistant, Jackson Laboratories. (2009– )
Assistant Professor of Biology.
Phone: 845-758-2337
E-mail: bjude@bard.edu
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Felicia Keesing
Associate Professor of Biology; Adjunct Faculty, MAT Program
B.S., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Grants: National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health. Awards and fellowships include Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship, Anna M. Jackson Award, United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2000). Coeditor,
Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems (Princeton University Press, 2008). Articles include contributions to Ecology, BioScience, Oecologia, Conservation Biology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Canadian Journal of Zoology, among others. Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College. (2000– ) Associate Professor of Biology.
Phone: 845-752-2331
E-mail: keesing@bard.edu
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Mary Krembs
Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program; Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
B.A., Marist College; M.S., D.Phil., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Research interests include computational geometry (Voroni nets), computer graphics, software development methodology, human-computer interaction, and mathematical methods to compose and represent music. Taught as adjunct professor of mathematics, Marist College. Technical project manager, Wellington Technology. Holds patent on a method to detect the closest existing point on a spline or polyline.
Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program. (2007– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Phone: 845-758-7265
E-mail: krembs@bard.edu
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Gregory D. Landweber
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
B.A., Princeton University; M.Sc., Oxford University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics with Distinction, Cambridge University. Many honors, including Brown and Covington Prizes in mathematics, Princeton (1991–92); National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Harvard (1994–97); University of Oregon Faculty Summer Research Award (2006). Has taught at Harvard, University of Oregon, University of Toronto/Fields Institute. Has authored and coauthored many mathematical papers, including “The
K-theory of abelian versus nonabelian symplectic quotients” (with Megumi Harada); “Representation rings of Lie superalgebras,” K-Theory 36 (2005); “Twisted representation rings and Dirac induction,” Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 206 (2006). (2007– ) Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Phone: 845-758-7093
E-mail: gregland@bard.edu
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William T. Maple
Professor of Biology; Director, Bard College Field Station; Director, Environmental Studies Program; Faculty, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
B.A., Miami University; M.A., Ph.D., Kent State University. Director of Natural Science Museum for Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association (Emeritus). Board of directors, Hudsonia, Ltd. Member: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Herpetologists League. Professional interests: evolution and ecology of reptiles and amphibians.
Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program. (1973– ) Director, Bard College Field Station; Professor of Biology.
Phone: 845-752-2334
E-mail: maple@bard.edu
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Robert W. McGrail
Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Mathematics
B.A., Saint Joseph’s College of Maine; M.A., Boston College; Ph.D., Wesleyan University. Publications include articles in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, the proceedings of the FLAIRS Conference series, and in the Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Director, Laboratory for Algebraic and Symbolic Computation, Bard College. (1999– ) Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics.
Phone: 845-752-2308
E-mail: mcgrail@bard.edu
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Emily McLaughlin
Assistant Professor Chemistry
B.S., Ohio Northern University; Ph.D., University of Pennyslvania. Research associate and lecturer at University of Maryland. Recipient, Achievement Award for Distinguished Service to the University of Pennyslvania Chemistry Department (2005); Department of Education GAANN Fellowship (2002–04). Contributor to
Organic Letters, Journal of Organic Chemistry, and other scholarly journals. (2008– )
Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
Phone: 845-752-2355
E-mail: mclaughl@bard.edu
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Keith O'Hara
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
B.A., Rowan College; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology. Specializes in robot systems architecture and interactive computing. Has conducted research at BORG Lab; Lockheed Martin; and Institute for Personal Robots in Education, under auspices of Microsoft Research, at Georgia Tech and Bryn Mawr College. Articles published in
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Pervasive Computing, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges. (2009– ) Assistant Professor of Computer Science.
Phone: 845-752-2359
E-mail: kohara@bard.edu
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Catherine O'Reilly
Assistant Professor of Biology
B.A., Carleton College; Ph.D., University of Arizona. Principal investigator, The Nyanza Project, an interdisciplinary research training program for undergraduates on Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, funded by the National Science Foundation. Holds funding for the construction and monitoring of a fish ladder designed specifically for American eels on the Sawkill at Bard College. Contributing author to the Nobel Prize–winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 Report. (2005– )
Assistant Professor of Biology.
Phone: 845-752-2332
E-mail: oreilly@bard.edu
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Lauren Lynn Rose
Associate Professor of Mathematics; Chair, Division of Science, Mathmatics, and Computing; Director, Mathematics Program; Faculty, Master of Arts in Teaching
B.A., Tufts University; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University. Taught at Ohio State University, Wellesley College. Visiting scholar, Mathematics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Bunting Institute Science Scholar, Radcliffe College. Research interests: algebraic combinatorics, commutative algebra, discrete geometry.
Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College. (1997– ) Associate Professor of Mathematics.
Phone: 845-758-7362
E-mail: rose@bard.edu
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Simeen Sattar
Professor of Chemical Physics
B.A., Rosemont College; Ph.D., Yale University. Postdoctoral fellow, University of Pennsylvania (1982–84). Research: oscillating reaction dynamics, infrared spectroscopy of electrolyte solutions. Contributor to
Journal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of Chemical Education. Visiting professor, Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University (2006). (1984– ) Professor of Chemical Physics.
Phone: 845-758-7226
E-mail: sattar@bard.edu
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Peter D Skiff
Professor of Physics; Codirector, Science, Technology, and Society Program
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.S., University of Houston; Ph.D., Louisiana State University. Postdoctoral conferences in quantum theory, classical Athens, history of science, philosophy of science. Consultant, Baylor University College of Medicine, Engineering Enterprises, Inc. Articles in
Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Foundations of Physics, American Journal of Physics, Choice, American Archaeologist, Computers in Physics, Journal of Dialectics of Nature (Beijing). Referee for World Scientific Advances in Applied Mathematics, Foundations of Physics, Cambridge University Press. (1966– ) Professor of Physics.
Phone: 845-758-7286
E-mail: skiff@bard.edu
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S. Rebecca Thomas
Associate Professor of Computer Science
S.B., electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D., computer science, Stanford University. Taught at University of Northern Iowa, Middlebury College, Stanford University. Research at SRI International, AT&T Bell Laboratories. Grants and awards: IBM, National Science Foundation, Stanford University, AT&T Bell Laboratories. Papers include "Domain Semantics for Agent-Oriented Programming" (FLAIRS 2000); "Becoming a Computer Scientist: A Report by the ACM Subcommittee on the Status of Women in Computing Science" (
Communications of the ACM, 33:11, 1990; reprinted in 1992, 1997, and 2002 in other print and online publications). (2000– )
Associate Professor of Computer Science.
Phone: 845-752-2307
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Michael Tibbetts
Associate Professor of Biology; Director of Biology Program; Faculty, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
B.S., Southeastern Massachusetts University; Ph.D., Wesleyan University. Teaching assistant, Peterson Fellowship, Wesleyan University. Adjunct lecturer, postdoctoral fellow, University of Michigan. Recipient, National Science Foundation grant (2008), to study transmission of anaplasmosis from ticks to people. Member of Sigma Xi, Genetics Society of America, American Society of Microbiology. Professional interests: cellular events that lead to appropriate spatial organization of subcellular material.
Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program. (1992– ) Associate Professor of Biology.
Phone: 845-752-2309
E-mail: tibbetts@bard.edu
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Kim Touchette
Visiting Professor of Chemistry
B.A., Bard College; M.A., Ph.D., Wesleyan University. Recipient, Petroleum Research Fund (2000–02) and National Science Foundation (2002–04) grants. Publications include articles in the field of organic chemistry appearing in
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Journal of Chemical Education, Journal of the Chemical Society, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Tetrahedron, Heterocycles. Associate professor of chemistry, Dutchess Community College (1981–2002). Research Associate, Bard College (1990– ). (1995–96; 2002– ) Visiting Professor of Chemistry.
Phone: 845-758-6822
E-mail: touchett@bard.edu
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Hilton M. Weiss
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, David and Rosalie Rose Research Professor
Sc.B., Brown University; M.S., University of Vermont; Ph.D., Rutgers University. Consultant, U.S. General Accounting Office, Environmental Protection Agency; visiting scholar, Wesleyan University (1989–90). Honorary research associate, Harvard University (1977–78). Recipient, 1999 Texaco Research Award. Published in
Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of the Chemical Society (London), Journal of Chemical Education, others. (1961–2008) Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, David and Rosalie Rose Research Professor.
Phone: 845-876-5135
E-mail: weiss@bard.edu
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