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On Campus, In Person: Students React to a New Year
Five students share their thoughts about the return to in-person learning and living on campus. They are among 2,446 students at Smith for the first in-person semester since March of 2020.
- Campus Life
- September 10, 2021
Pelosi Urges Smith Students to Contribute, with Confidence
In a Presidential Colloquium after receiving an honorary degree at Smith College tonight, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Smith students to have the confidence to contribute to their communities, their country and the world.
- Year on Democracies
- September 8, 2021
UPDATE: ERA Activist Carol Jenkins Will Speak at Smith September 21
Activist Carol Jenkins—co-president and CEO of The ERA Coalition and the Fund for Women’s Equality, sister organizations dedicated to the passage and enactment of the Equal Rights Amendment—will give a Presidential Colloquium at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21, in Sage Hall at Smith College. (Please note updated date, time and location.)
- Year on Democracies
- September 7, 2021
Democracies Through the Lens of the Liberal Arts
The Year on Democracies will examine the historical, philosophical and global aspects of what President Kathleen McCartney called "notions of democracy around the world." Presidential colloquia, lectures on the fight for racial justice, as well as art exhibitions on America’s political landscape are among the events planned for the year.
- Year on Democracies
- August 31, 2021
Shaping Change at Smith: Meet the Advocacy for Equity Council
Smith’s new Advocacy for Equity Council hopes to take student activism on campus to a new level. Here’s what four group members had to say about the council’s plans for the fall.
- Campus Life
- August 27, 2021
Author Mohsin Hamid: Your First Reading Assignment
“Exit West” author Mohsin Hamid talks about this year’s Smith Reads selection, Toni Morrison, and his own first-year reading experience.
- Campus Life
- August 27, 2021
Smith Announces Ticket Procedures for Upcoming Nancy Pelosi Colloquium
Smith College today announced ticketing procedures for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Presidential Colloquium at Smith College at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8.
- Year on Democracies
- August 24, 2021
Kelly Coons ’22: Building Autism Awareness
Kelly Coons ’22 discusses her new young adult novel, “All Ways,” which aims to paint a positive and accurate picture of autism.
- Research & Inquiry
- August 19, 2021
What’s on the Menu for Fall Dining?
More hours. More options. More flexibility. More local food. Those are some of the changes coming to Smith’s dining program this fall, as the college adapts to alterations brought on by the pandemic—and to students’ changing needs.
- Campus Life
- August 18, 2021
Retirement Revolution
Many questions people have about retirement have nothing to do with finances. Ida Offenbach Abbott ’69, author of Retirement by Design: A Guided Workbook for Creating a Happy and Purposeful Future—a Wall Street Journal pick for best book on retirement—talks about some of these concerns and how retirement today is very different from what it used to be.
- Alumnae News
- August 11, 2021
The Tokyo Olympics: A Sports Economist's View
What’s it like to watch this year’s Olympics through a sports economist’s lens? We talked with Andrew Zimbalist, one of the nation's leading scholars of the business of sports, about this year's Tokyo Games.
- Research & Inquiry
- August 4, 2021
Colloquia Will Explore Issues of Democracy
Six influential thought leaders will visit Smith during the 2021-22 academic year for a series of Presidential Colloquia exploring ideas related to democracy. The colloquia—a centerpiece of Smith’s Year on Democracies—will be held in person on the Smith College campus, and also streamed to Smith's Facebook page.
- News of Note
- August 3, 2021
August 2021 People News
Teaching honors, Magic Grant awards and nominations for diplomatic service are among the recent accomplishments of Smith students, faculty, staff and alums.
- Research & Inquiry
- July 30, 2021
Meeting the Needs: Students Open Resource Center
The new, student-run Common Goods resource center will provide students with toiletries, bedding and other basic-needs items free of charge, and with no questions asked.
- Campus Life
- July 27, 2021
Haute Chocolate
In Bristol, Vermont, Eliza La Rocca ’07 and husband Erlé LaBounty own and run Farmhouse Chocolates, a tiny ethical chocolate company.
- Smithies Create
- July 16, 2021
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Will Speak at Smith College
Nancy Pelosi—the first woman to serve as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and one of the foremost voices in American democracy today—will deliver a Presidential Colloquium at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8, in John M. Greene Hall at Smith College.
- Year on Democracies
- July 12, 2021
‘Heralding Hope’: Summer at Smith
This summer at Smith is a mix of virtual and in-person activities, including a record number of on-campus student research projects, pre-college and career programs and new humanities and social sciences labs.
- Campus Life
- July 8, 2021
Capturing Smith’s Entrepreneurial Spirit
Six Smith students have recently been awarded Grinspoon Foundation Entrepreneurship Awards for their innovative business ventures.
- Research & Inquiry
- July 8, 2021
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