The Daily Freeman reports that the Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project at Bard will receive a five-year $400,000 Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism, according to a Bard news release. A cross-disciplinary annual visiting fellowship for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research at both the Center and the Human Rights Project will be available through the award. The findings will be widely distributed among universities and colleges internationally, and the fellowship recipient will receive $80,000 annually for five years, according to The Daily Freeman. Bard, in Dutchess County, will begin and accepting applications for the fellowship this month, announcing a first fellow in the spring. Haring is an artist and social activist, popular in the 1980s in New York City, who died February 16, 1990 of AIDS-related complications. Read the full story in The Daily Freeman.