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News Archive
‘The Power to Change the Canon’
Naomi Miller, professor of English language and literature and of the study of women and gender, shares insights from her novel on early modern women authors.
- Research & Inquiry
- March 17, 2021
Getting Past ‘No’
‘Rock star’ Smithies open up about the professional rejections that changed their lives
- Campus Life
- March 17, 2021
Advice on the Go
‘Get Your Smith Together’ podcast brings alumnae wisdom—and some solace—to anxious students.
- Campus Life
- March 17, 2021
Girl on a Train
A little-known, recently rediscovered short story by Sylvia Plath ’55, written during her sophomore year at Smith, laid the groundwork for some of her most influential works—and may have foreshadowed the author’s own fate.
- Alumnae News
- March 17, 2021
Uncertainty on Main Street
Stretched financially and emotionally by the pandemic, Smithie small-business owners summon their powers of resilience and vow to pull through, even in the face of limited government support, confusing rules and clumsy regulations.
- Alumnae News
- March 17, 2021
Destination: Neilson
Smith’s beloved library returns as a “work of art” that will transform the pursuit of scholarship.
- New Neilson
- March 17, 2021
Teaching the History of Racist Language
Professor Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor explores the complexities of talking about the N-word without doing harm.
- Research & Inquiry
- March 17, 2021
Smith Will Sponsor Forum on Vaccine
As the COVID-19 vaccine begins to become more available in the Pioneer Valley—and more broadly across the United States—Smith College will offer a free community forum about the vaccine at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 17.
- Events
- March 10, 2021
Marking a Year of Challenge and Change
Students, faculty and staff will have opportunities this month to commemorate their experiences during 2020, a year marked by isolation, uncertainty—and also resilience and hope.
- Campus Life
- March 10, 2021
People News March 2021
The college’s first Sloan Research Fellowship, photography and video awards and career honors are among the recent accomplishments of Smith students, faculty, staff and alums. Read about them in the latest People News column.
- Campus Life
- March 8, 2021
Bryan Stevenson To Offer Presidential Colloquium
Activist and attorney Bryan Stevenson—executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative and the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” award for his work fighting the death penalty—will deliver a Presidential Colloquium on “Just Mercy: The Movement for Justice and Redemption” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 11.
- Events
- March 4, 2021
Grief and Fury
Christa Parravani ’99’s new memoir, Loved and Wanted, is a devastating account of women’s limited access to reproductive health in 21st-century America.
- Smithies Create
- March 2, 2021
Tracks for Our Times
Critics can’t get enough of Boston-based rapper Billy Dean Thomas ’14’s new seven-track EP, For Better or Worse, which continues their exploration of social justice, identity and the political landscape, set to in-your-face beats and infectious rhythms.
- Smithies Create
- March 2, 2021
On Biodiversity: Six Questions for Desiree Narango
The opening lecture for this year’s annual Bulb Show—all online this year—will focus on the connection between plant choice and conservation. Wildlife ecologist Desiree Narango will discuss “The Birds, the Bees, the Flowers and the Trees: Why Native Plants Matter for Wildlife Conservation,” on Thursday, March 4, at 4 p.m.
- Sustainability
- March 1, 2021
‘The Poem I Wish I Had Read’
The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center has launched “The Poem I Wish I Had Read,” a video series that features poets discussing works they wish they had been exposed to as teenagers, in the hopes of connecting local high school students with contemporary poetry.
- Smith Arts
- February 24, 2021
‘Disclosure’: Transgender Representation in Media
Mona Sinha ’88 and Sam Feder—executive producer and director, respectively, of the Netflix documentary “Disclosure”—will discuss their film in a Presidential Colloquium at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 2.
- Events
- February 24, 2021
Creativity Rekindled
A new book from award-winning poets—and spouses—Jessica Jacobs ’02 and Nickole Brown, Write It!: 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire, is a guided journal with fun writing exercises that spark creativity.
- Smithies Create
- February 23, 2021
Soft Touch
If mass-produced grocery store marshmallows are the only ones you’ve ever tasted, Alexx Shuman ’12’s version might just be a revelation.
- Smithies Create
- February 23, 2021
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