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Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching program, in collaboration with the Hyde Park School District, will hold a STEM camp for seventh grade students in Annandale from January through July.

On Sunday, January 19, Bard's Office of Student Activities held it’s inaugural first-year lecture series, Bard Talks, inspired by the widely known TED Talks conferences. Six students presented on a range of topics that showcased social and political issues of global concern, as well as ways to engage with those issues on campus. Topics addressed included malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, food initiatives at Bard, climate change, organ trafficking, and information security. Bard Talks took place in conjunction with the Martin Luther King Day of Service and the Citizen Science program. The event was well attended by students and faculty at the Bito Auditorium in the Reem-Kayden Center.

Jaime DiPuppo, M.S. '12 is now pursuing a master's in teaching through the American Museum of Natural History as part of a national effort to add 100,000 STEM teachers in the U.S. by 2021.

Biology faculty member Bruce Robertson has coauthored a paper showing that perennial grasses can effectively be used as biomass crops while preserving species and ecosystem services. While corn leads biomass crops by yield, that high production comes at a high price for the environment. This research is part of Professor Robertson's ongoing collaboration with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at Michigan State University.

Read the article in PNAS.

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Twenty-three honors math students from Saugerties Junior High School competed in the American Math Contest 8 at Bard in November. The event, conducted annually by the Mathematical Association of America, was sponsored by the Bard Math Circle.