Science Facilities

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

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

This state-of-the-art, 70,000-square-foot science facility, home to the Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Computational Sciences Programs, opened in 2007. The Lynda and Stewart Resnick Science Laboratories wing opened in  2009. Designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects, a New York City firm, the dramatic, two-story building includes nearly 17,000 square feet of dedicated laboratory space. Biology equipment in the facility includes DNA and protein electrophoresis instruments, a digital gel imaging system, an array of standard PCR machines, a Real-Time PCR machine, two fluorescent microscopes, and a wide range of ecology field equipment.

Facilities

  • 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 Macs 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 Mac 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 and email. 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.
  • Bard College Field Station
    The Bard College Ecology Field Station provides the college and regional community with opportunities to learn about the natural world through science. Centered around the natural history of the Hudson Valley, the Field Station’s research and educational activities foster engagement and collaboration between professionals, students, and amateurs to address environmental problems that range from species identification to biodiversity conservation to sustainability. The station includes a library, natural history collection (birds, plants, insects, invertebrates), laboratories, and a classroom, that are available to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and environmental researchers. Operating as a partnership between Bard College and Hudsonia Ltd., a private not-for-profit research institute, the Field Station is uniquely positioned at the doorstep of the Tivoli Bays. The Tivoli Bays is managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) as part of the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (HRNERR). This area is designated as a Natural Heritage Area, Wildlife Management Area, Significant Coastal Fish and Wildlife Habitat, Bird Conservation Area, and Important Bird Area.

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  • Off Campus
    Rockefeller University
    Bard Students participating in the Bard-Rockefeller Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program and The Bard-Rockefeller Semester in Science (BRSS) will have access to the facilities of Rockefeller University and their placement laboratories.

    Bard College at Simon’s Rock
    Bard College at Simon’s Rock 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.