Citizen Science News
Bard Awarded $800,000 Science Grant
The college has been awarded $800,000 from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for science education, building on the success of the Citizen Science Program.
Bard Citizen Science Lecture: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Confronts a Leading Cause of Childhood Mortality
On Tuesday, April 10, 2012, the Bard College Citizen Science Lecture Series will present the lecture “Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Investments in Reducing Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases Burden.”
Is Animal Testing Justified? Citizen Science Students Appear in Public Debate
This debate will take place, as part of the Citizen Science Program and the Public Debate Series, on January 18, 2012 at 7:00 pm in the Reem-Kayden Center 103 (Laszlo Z. Bito ’60 Auditorium).
Citizen Science Community Program Expands in 2012
Bard's Citizen Science educational programs for area schoolchildren, taught by Bard's first-year students and Citizen Science faculty, will expand to include five school districts, with more than 1,500 local children participating.
Airports Are a Pandemic’s Best Friend
By Emma Bryce
Discover MagazineNovember 2012 VIEW MORE >>
It is no secret that air travel hastens the spread of infectious diseases, but how can we use air traffic data and computer modeling to make critical decisions to prevent an epidemic from becoming a pandemic? What is more important, number of passengers per day, or number of connecting airports?
The Appliance of Ecological Science
From the British Ecological Society
Science DailyDecember 2012 VIEW MORE >>
The beauty of scientific thought is that it allows one to cross the boundaries of scientific disciplines and apply approaches from one scientific field to another in order to achieve breakthroughs. Rather than thinking about a pathogen on its own, scientists have started thinking about the pathogen in the context of the complex host environment. Read on to find out how this has been applied to important diseases such as cystic fibrosis.
Pig Farms Breed Resistant Staph
By Elizabeth Svoboda
Discover MagazineJanuary/
February 2013
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), one of the most dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria, is responsible for more than 250,000 hospitalizations a year in the United States alone. And new, even more deadly versions of staph may be on the way, due to intensive use of antibiotics on factory farms. In February scientists reported that a methicillin-susceptible staph had jumped from people to industrially farmed pigs, acquired resistance to the antibiotics the pigs were fed, and jumped back again, having turned methicillin-resistant.