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News Archive
Dispatch from Madrid: Feeling Community Through My Window
Teresa Kábana ’92 sends a dispatch from Madrid.
- Campus Life
- June 18, 2020
Echoes of a Pandemic
From canceled classes to campus quarantines, effects of the 1918 Spanish flu ring familiar.
- Campus Life
- June 18, 2020
Virtual Togetherness
Quarantines fall away as Smith friends Zoom into one another’s living rooms.
- Campus Life
- June 18, 2020
All-Hands Crisis Response
Entire campus community takes up an array of challenges presented by a dangerous pandemic.
- Campus Life
- June 18, 2020
A Semester Like No Other
From there, the dominoes began falling rapidly. The spring bulb show abruptly closed on March 9, two days after it opened.
- Campus Life
- June 18, 2020
Racialization of Infectious Disease
As viruses spread, so does discrimination against marginalized groups, says psychologist Sherry Wang ’06.
- Alumnae News
- June 18, 2020
Activist and Author Loretta Ross: Staying Hopeful
Visiting associate professor, author and activist Loretta Ross believes the coronavirus pandemic has provided people more time to reflect on systemic injustices and “think deeply about what is important to them.”
- Research & Inquiry
- June 18, 2020
Quick on the Draw
Studio art major Sophie Willard Van Sistine ’22 finds her niche writing comics.
- Campus Life
- June 17, 2020
Mission to Make Masks
When Sunny Windorski ’20 and other students heard about Crafting for Community, a Jandon Center initiative to create masks for use during the pandemic, they jumped at the chance to get involved.
- Alumnae News
- June 17, 2020
Camille Bacon ’21: Smith’s Cromwell Fellow
Camille Bacon ’21, the recipient of Smith’s first Cromwell Fellowship in black studies, is spending her summer doing research for an honors thesis about how art reflects and shapes attitudes about race, culture and identity.
- Campus Life
- June 15, 2020
People News May 2020
Student athlete awards, career promotions, and an honorary title for service to France are among the recent accomplishments of Smith students, faculty, staff and alums. Read about them in the latest People News column.
- Campus Life
- May 28, 2020
College Bids Farewell to Retiring Faculty
At a faculty meeting held remotely in May, Smith College President Kathleen McCartney announced the retirement of nine faculty members.
- News of Note
- May 22, 2020
Nancy Pelosi: Smith Graduates Have Power to Shape the Future
Addressing the first virtual commencement in Smith College history, Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, praised this year’s graduates for their courage and perseverance, and their potential to become “history makers.”
- News of Note
- May 17, 2020
Chloe Hou ’20: ‘Feeling the Power of Creation’
Chloe Hou ’20 decided to declare an architecture major before she’d taken a single studio course at Smith. “It’s a challenging major,” she acknowledges. “But it allows me to feel the power of creation.”
- Campus Life
- May 14, 2020
Isabelle Hodge ’20: Designing Her Smith Life
For Isabelle Hodge ’20, Smith’s Design Thinking Initiative has offered a place to unleash her seemingly boundless creativity, and gain confidence in her varied skills and talents.
- Campus Life
- May 13, 2020
Yansi Murga ’20: Learning to Be a Leader
During her four years at Smith, Yansi Murga ’20 has sought out opportunities to serve as well as to study, and her explorations have taken her well beyond western Massachusetts.
- Campus Life
- May 13, 2020
Marcela Rodrigues ’20: Creating Change by Sharing Stories
During her three years at Smith, Marcela Rodrigues ’20 has modeled a distinctive style of activism grounded in a deep knowledge of history and an impulse for sharing stories.
- Campus Life
- May 12, 2020
Lights in the Dark
When Michelle Stahl AC ’95 found out that on-campus commencement and reunion celebrations had been canceled because of COVID-19, she wanted to do something special for graduating seniors. The result: a virtual Global Illumination Night on May 16.
- Events
- May 8, 2020
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