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Distinguished Writer in Residence Teju Cole reflects on the ethical implications of displaying found photographs of African Americans in the age of digital photo tagging.

Professor Battle was commissioned to paint "How long is your past, how far is your future." At 16-feet wide by 5-feet tall, the oil and mixed media piece is her largest yet.

The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation has awarded a $5 million dollar leadership grant to the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies to support a scientific study, being done in partnership with Bard College, that seeks to reduce Lyme disease in neighborhoods. Research will be carried out in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, New York State Department of Health, and Dutchess County Department of Behavioral and Community Health. If successful, the project will revolutionize Lyme disease prevention.

Bard College professor Brooke Jude has led a research team that includes students in the Bard biology program, at Al Quds Bard College in the West Bank, and at several Hudson Valley schools. This investigation of bacterial species in the local watershed was recently published in a citizen science–themed issue of the Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education. Researchers worked to determine the prevalence of violacein-producing bacteria, which potentially limit outbreaks of an invasive fungus that leads to a decline in the amphibian population. The secondary school students gathered water samples, after which the college students—Yegor Dukashin and Kelsey O’Brien from Bard, and Raneem Jo’Beh from Al Quds—worked to identify the samples. Local students participated from Red Hook High School, Linden Avenue Middle School in Red Hook, and F.D. Roosevelt High School in Staatsburg.

Bard psychology major Eleonora Beier '16 has won a highly competitive Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. The fellowships recognize and support outstanding graduate students in the sciences, providing a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 along with a $12,000 cost of education allowance, as well as opportunities for international research and professional development. Eleonora will attend The University of California, Davis, where she plans to continue the music cognition research related to her Senior Project work in the Memory Dynamics Lab at Bard.