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News Archive
Yamiche Alcindor Is Cromwell Day Speaker
Yamiche Alcindor—an award-winning journalist who serves as the White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour—will deliver the keynote address at Smith’s virtual celebration of Cromwell Day on Tuesday, Nov. 10.
- Events
- October 26, 2020
People News October 2020
Music scholar awards, groundbreaking scientific research and global peace honors are among the recent accomplishments of Smith students, faculty, staff and alums. Read about them in the latest People News column.
- Campus Life
- October 22, 2020
Smith Votes: ‘Engaging Students in Democracy’
Emily Paule ’22 and other members of Smith Votes, a nonpartisan student-led effort, are using the “power of personal connections” to boost participation in the election.
- Campus Life
- October 19, 2020
Tracy K. Smith Will Read at Poetry Center Naming
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith will read from her work at the dedication of the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center.
- Smith Arts
- October 16, 2020
Smith Will Celebrate Teaching Award Winners
Three faculty members chosen for this year’s Sherrerd teaching awards share their thoughts about the rewards and challenges of teaching at Smith. The campus community is invited to celebrate the honorees at a virtual ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 15, at 5:30 p.m.
- Research & Inquiry
- October 7, 2020
Smith Receives $50 Million for Financial Aid, Careers
Smith College has received a $50 million gift to its endowment to transform and support financial aid and career development programs. The gift—from an alumna who wishes to remain anonymous—is the largest gift from an individual donor in Smith’s history.
- News of Note
- October 7, 2020
Building Virtual Community at Smith
From virtual scavenger hunts, to remote studio tours to a new Campus Life Connections program offering one-on-one support to students, the Smith community is finding myriad ways to come together while physically distant this fall.
- Campus Life
- October 2, 2020
Neuroscientist Pens (Really Fun!) STEM-Adventure Books for Children
Neuroscientist Theanne Griffith ’08 is the author of The Magnificent Makers, a series of children’s books that feature Black and people of color characters having the ultimate in STEM adventures, while learning life lessons along the way.
- Alumnae News
- September 30, 2020
Pet Project
Zoom Room Dog Training CEO Mark Van Wye, M.F.A. ’01, offers five tips for safely socializing your new puppy during a pandemic.
- Smithies Create
- September 29, 2020
New England Flavor
Amy Traverso ’93 returns for her fourth season as co-host of the public television documentary series Weekends with Yankee.
- Smithies Create
- September 29, 2020
Low Vision, High Art
How a genetic disorder that causes progressive vision loss affects the abstract acrylic paintings of visual artist Erika York ’12.
- Smithies Create
- September 29, 2020
Good Trouble
A new book from Melanie Hastings Light ’80 traces social change from Brown v. Board of Education to Black Lives Matter and #MeToo.
- Smithies Create
- September 28, 2020
Best Friends Forever
Key to the popular novels of J. Courtney Sullivan ’03 are intimate portraits of the interwoven lives of women—and the drama that ensues. Her fifth novel is a case in point.
- Alumnae News
- September 28, 2020
Sophie Friend ’24: Delving into Design
In high school, Sophie Friend ’24 not only took all of the available classes in architecture, she also co-taught an architecture class in her senior year. Friend brings her passion for the discipline to Smith, where she is already delving into design and art history.
- Campus Life
- September 28, 2020
‘A Role Model in the Pursuit of Justice and Equality’
Phoebe Haddon ’72, chancellor emerita of Rutgers University-Camden, reflects on one of the greatest highlights of her career in education and law—receiving the 2019 Association of American Law Schools Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Alumnae News
- September 28, 2020
Girl Power
Henry Sleeper, a popular music professor at Smith, founded a summer camp for girls that promoted leadership and was a haven for budding feminists.
- Campus Life
- September 25, 2020
‘She Was My North Star’
Susan Mussey Huffman ’61 celebrates Ellen Spencer Mussey, her great-grandmother and a pioneering champion for the rights of women and children.
- Alumnae News
- September 25, 2020
Because They Persisted
Victoria Foster Van Voorhis ’90 and Susan Colodny ’85 created Voices for Suffrage, a learning tool that uses primary sources to present the history of suffrage.
- Alumnae News
- September 25, 2020
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