It’s OFFICIALLY Bard College Commencement Week! Congratulations to all our seniors! 🎓✨
Here’s a video from Senior Project Drop Off Day — the excitement is building, the energy is high, and graduation is just around the corner. We can’t wait to celebrate the incredible Class of 2026! Reel by Zach Butler '29 (@zachvisions )
Congratulations to the soon-to-be graduates celebrated at the First-Gen Senior Reception, recognizing students who are the first in their immediate family to graduate from college. We can’t wait to see what you do next! 📸: Wais Kakarr ’26(@waisokakarr )
✨ Celebrating this year’s incredible Bard alumni/ae award recipients ✨
From groundbreaking scientific research to humanitarian service, public advocacy, and the arts, these honorees embody the spirit of Bard through their leadership, creativity, and commitment to others.
🏅 Audrey Lasher Smith ’78 — Bard Medal
🧬 Amy Bernard ’91 — John and Samuel Bard Award in Medicine and Science
🦟 Matthew DeGennaro ’96 — John and Samuel Bard Award in Medicine and Science
🎭 Youssef Kerkour ’00 — Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters
⚖️ Kevin A. G. Barbosa ’18 — John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service
⚖️ Eva-Marie Quinones ’17 — John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service
🌍 Imran Ahmed ’02 — Laszlo Z. Bito Award for Humanitarian Service
Join us next Friday under the Commencement Tent for cocktails, dinner, and the Bard College Awards ceremony celebrating these outstanding alumni/ae. There’s still time to register! #bardianandproud #bardreunion #bardcommencement #bard26
We’re proud to celebrate two distinguished alumni/ae who will be awarded honorary degrees from Bard College this year.
🎓 Kathryn E. Stein ’66 will receive a Doctor of Science for her groundbreaking career in immunology, vaccine regulation, and biotechnology leadership. From more than a decade at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to pioneering therapies at MacroGenics, Inc., her work has advanced treatments for infectious diseases, autoimmune disorders, and cancer.
🎓 Jack Arthur Blum ’62 will receive a Doctor of Laws for a career dedicated to exposing corruption, financial crime, and injustice. His investigations helped shape the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and brought global attention to money laundering, bribery, and international fraud.
Congratulations! #bardianandproud #bard26 #bardreunion #bardcommencement
🎓✨ Bard College proudly celebrates its One Hundred Sixty-Sixth Commencement on Saturday, May 23, 2026! We are honored to welcome journalist and bestselling author Fareed Zakaria as this year’s Undergraduate Commencement speaker. Bard will also confer honorary degrees upon Zakaria and distinguished alumni/ae lawyer Jack Arthur Blum ’62 and immunologist Kathryn E. Stein ’66 as we celebrate the achievements of the Class of 2026 and the Bard community. #bardianandproud #bard26 #bardreunion #bardcommencement @fareedzakaria
Heyooo my name’s Ilan Guerrero Rosario #bardianandproud class of ‘2️⃣7️⃣
I’m a theater major studying at Bard Berlin, take a look at a day of my life🇵🇷🇩🇪🇺🇸🎭
Last chance! Today is the final day to register online for Bard Alumni/ae Reunion Weekend, May 22–24. Reconnect, celebrate, and make plans to be back on campus with fellow alumni/ae. Register now before online registration closes! bard.edu/reunion
Thursday evening was fantastic at the @brooklynmuseum ! Thanks to Mimi Gross ‘61, Fiona Laugharn ‘12 and Kimberli Grant, Brooklyn Museum curator. Mimi gave us a tour, took questions about Ruckus and her career spanning 50 years. You are the best, Mimi! #ruckusmanhattan #bardianandproud
Last week, we were honored to welcome Bard alumni /ae and co-directors Adam Khalil ’11 and Zack Khalil ’14 back to campus as part of the Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies Alumni Speaker Series.
Co-presented with the Center for Moving Image Arts, the evening featured a screening of Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild], followed by a thoughtful panel discussion on storytelling, collaboration, and Indigenous futures.
A special thank you to Adam and Zack for returning to Bard to share their work, insight, and creative journey with our community. We’re also grateful to everyone who joined us for this memorable evening at the Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center.
🎥 Reel by Zach Butler ’29 (@zachvisions )
#bardianandproud #bardimpact
Happy Graduation to our Qorn-loving graduates out there! 🎓💛 Before there was BjornQorn, there were two @bardcollege roommates with late night popcorn parties and a dream. Congrats to this year’s grads, and may your next chapter be as unexpected and rewarding as Bjorn and Jamie’s.
Bard alumna Juliana Spahr ’88 has been awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Ars Poeticas.
Spahr’s work—known for weaving together the personal and the political—continues to challenge and expand what poetry can do in times of urgency and change.
Join us in celebrating this remarkable achievement. #bardimpact #bardianandproud @pulitzerprizes@bardcollege
Photo by Ruby Wallau for Northeastern University
Two Bard College alumnae, Alva Rogers MAT ‘12 and Sadie Wechsler ’07, have been awarded 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Rogers was awarded as a fellow in Drama and Performance Art, and Wechsler was awarded as a fellow in the field of Photography. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants, 2026 Guggenheim fellows were tapped based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise, and each receives a monetary stipend to pursue independent work at the highest level under the freest possible conditions. Congratulations! #bardianandproud #bardimpact
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