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Bard ecologist Erik Kiviat and Simon's Rock colleague Robert Schmidt were the first scientists to discover clam shrimp in New Jersey. Now Kiviat is on the hunt again for the rare crustacean.

Bard College associate professor of psychology Kristin Lane, as well as Jin Goh '12 and Douglas Gazarian '13, were among 270 researchers who participated in the most comprehensive investigation ever conducted about the rate and predictors of reproducibility in a field of science. The four-year study, published in Science, found that among replications of 100 published findings in three prominent psychology journals, fewer than half produced the same findings as the original study.

The Center for the Study of the Drone analyzed data from the Federal Aviation Administration and found 295 near misses between drones and manned aircraft in the U.S. since November 2014.

After Bard, Wayne joined the master's program in computer science at Stanford University. Later he decided to pursue his passion in the intersection between the humanities and sciences, a passion kindled a few years ago during his time at Bard. Currently Wayne is PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction group of the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His main research interests include crowdsourcing, creativity support tools, and social computing.