Divisional laboratories provide a wide range of equipment used for advanced science classes and faculty and student research. The Physics Program has a broad array of research electronics and optics equipment and nuclear detection devices. The Biology Program's equipment includes a high-speed refrigerated centrifuge, an environmentally controlled room, and electrophoresis equipment. The facilities of the Bard College Field Station are also used by students of ecology and environmental science. Divisional computing facilities include microcomputers for data acquisition and analysis and a network of RISC stations for advanced computing.
Most computers provide access to the Internet via a campuswide network system.
Henderson Computer Resources Center Academic computing at Bard College has experienced rapid growth since its origins some ten years ago, with a current inventory of more than five hundred computers distributed throughout the campus. The Bard College Field Station, built in 1971, is on the Hudson River near Tivoli South Bay and the mouth of the Saw Kill. Its location affords research and teaching access to freshwater tidal marshes, swamps and shallows, perennial and intermittent streams, young and old deciduous and coniferous forests, old and mowed fields, and other habitats. A library, herbarium, laboratories, classroom, and offices are used by undergraduate and graduate students and faculty engaged in courses, Senior Projects, master's theses, and other research projects. Also based at the field station are the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Hudsonia Ltd., a research institute.