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“Activities are focused on middle school children, but everyone is welcome,” said Japheth Wood, professor of mathematics at Bard College, noting that math teachers at all levels have come by on the second Saturday of the month to participate in the two hours of fun.

Bard's innovative January Citizen Science intensive gives first-year students science fundamentals, regardless of major.

Felicia Keesing is the lead author of a new study on biodiversity and human disease, which was published in Nature in December 2010. This important study has received international attention and press at over 70 venues and blogs.

President Leon Botstein appears on the Colbert Report to show how Bard's Citizen Science program addresses science illiteracy in the United States.

Bard High School Early College II (BHSEC II), a public school partnership between Bard College and the New York City Department of Education, has received a Science and Math Improvement Grant from the Toshiba America Foundation. The $13,440 grant was awarded for an innovative research project, "Urban Effects on Lightning Activity in Queens, New York."

Perhaps no city rivals New York, but lately Shanghai is making its bid. As the booming Chinese financial center races to emulate its Western counterpart, these two culturally disparate cities share increasing similarities. Now, thanks to an innovative grant to the Bard High School Early College (BHSEC), students from BHSEC and Shanghai’s pre- mier high schools, Affiliated High School of Fudan University and No. 2 High School of East Normal University, are examining their respective megacities through collaborative comparative environmental studies of New York’s Hudson River and Shanghai’s Huangpu River.