Nineteen Barnard College faculty members have been recognized for being among the top 2% of cited science authors worldwide, and some landed within the top 1%. Their names are featured in a new report, “Updated Science-wide Author Databases of Standardized Citation Indicators,” released by the global information analytics company Elsevier on October 4, 2023.
Research & Scholarship
Discovery is in Barnard’s DNA. Faculty members are conducting groundbreaking research in every discipline. Following a teacher-scholar model, faculty often collaborate with students to produce new knowledge. Whatever your major, you’ll have opportunities to do faculty-mentored research and maybe even co-author an academic paper.
Faculty Research
On January 3, 2024, JJ Miranda, associate professor of biological sciences, published new research, alongside colleagues, in the American Society for Microbiology journal mSphere, titled “Building-Level Wastewater Surveillance Localizes Interseasonal Influenza Variation.”
On November 12, 2023, Paige West, the Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology, and colleagues published a new article in the journal Annual Review of Environment and Resources, titled “Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas.”
I’m thankful that Barnard has been really great at giving me the tools to figure out that I like research and that it’s something I want to pursue.
Student Research
Get hands-on research experience working with faculty mentors in a rigorous, structured environment. With a commitment to access, certain research programs offer stipends and cover conference fees.
Students learn to design experiments on their own with close faculty guidance. And because they are working on faculty research projects, students are co-authors on any papers we publish.
Academic Centers
The Center is dedicated to developing new generations of women leaders. Its research challenges — and redefines — our understanding of leadership.
This hub for critical engagement brings together feminist scholars and activists to stimulate research, teaching, art, policy, and social change.
Neighborhood parents and scholars from around the world come to this living laboratory to learn about early childhood development from research being conducted by faculty and students alike.
A Place for Scholarship
The Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning offers study spaces, plenty of sunlight, and a coffee shop to fuel your study sessions. The library specializes in gender studies and features friendly librarian advisors. Its most unique special collection: feminist zines.
The Columbia Connection
Asha Futterman ’21 reflects on her three-year journey with the Barnard Center for Research on Women, including her Reading the Black Library Youth Fellowship with the Rebuild Foundation.