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Two Bard Students and One Alum Receive Full Scholarships to Study Classics at University of Colorado Boulder

Two Bard College seniors, Celeste Connell ’26 and Peter Fields ’26, and Bard alum Coulson Matto ’25, have received full scholarships to the Classics graduate program at University of Colorado Boulder. All three scholarships include full tuition, as well as stipends for teaching assistantships. “Between them they have worked as tutors, organized program events, participated in faculty searches, and more,” said Lauren Curtis, associate professor of Classics at Bard. “I couldn't imagine better ambassadors for Bard.”

2026 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to Bard Faculty Members

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships to Bard College faculty members Jacqueline Goss, professor of film and electronic arts, and Joseph Luzzi, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature. Guggenheim fellowships were also awarded to James Hoff, Steve Reinke, and Kenneth Tam, who will teach this upcoming summer at Bard’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Read More >>

Bard College Awarded $1.35 Million Grant in Support of Humanities Curricular Innovation Project

Bard College is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant in the amount of $1.35 million from the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times initiative for the project, “The Uses and Abuses of History,” which responds to the rise of unreliable digital media, heightened by the proliferation of AI-generated content. The project is led by four Bard faculty members: Associate Professor of History and Latin American and Iberian Studies Miles V. Rodríguez, Assistant Professor of the Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Nabanjan Maitra, Associate Professor of Classics Robert Cioffi, and Assistant Professor of Medieval History Valentina A. Grasso. Read More >>

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