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Theater Department’s “Habitat” About Teens, Rebellion, Home

It’s one of the most important works written this decade, according to Ellen W. Kaplan, who directs the Smith production of Habitat, by Canadian playwright Judith Thompson.

  • Smith Arts
  • September 5, 2012
Two performers in Habitat on stage

Center for Work and Life Renamed for Notable Alumna

A $5 million gift to the Smith College Center for Work and Life provides vital support for the center’s mission and programming, aimed toward helping students think purposefully about their own definitions of a rewarding life.

  • Supporting Smith
  • August 20, 2012

Alumnae Singers to Tour Russia, Baltics

Last year, they sang “Salutamu!” Next year, “Dobredyen.”

  • Smith Arts
  • August 17, 2012
Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood in St Petersburg Russia

Alone on the Sandy Shores, Again

Every summer, professor Michael Thurston locks the door to his academic office in Western Massachusetts and sets off for the salty air and sandy shores of Cape Cod. For his quest, beach towels and coolers are not essential but good walking shoes are.

  • Research & Inquiry
  • August 15, 2012
A beach at sunset with a dilapidated fence in the foreground

Look Who’s Coming To Smith College This Fall

As a Massachusetts resident, Katherine S. Estes represents the state with the largest number of students in the Smith College Class of 2016.

  • News of Note
  • August 15, 2012

American Studies Diploma Program Marks 50 Years

More than 50 graduates of Smith’s “foreign legion”—that is, international students who came to Smith for the American Studies Diploma Program—recently returned to campus to celebrate the program’s 50th anniversary.

  • Events
  • August 9, 2012

What Can We Learn from Penn State?

I was once a guest in a college classroom, appearing with a man who had spent years in prison and treatment for his sexual aggression.

  • News of Note
  • August 2, 2012

School for Social Work Honors Two Alumnae with Annual Award

The Smith School for Social Work recently presented the annual Day-Garrett Award to alumnae Suzin Bartley MSW’85, and Edward Eismann, PhD’67.

  • News of Note
  • July 31, 2012

Smith College Remembers Sally Ride

The Picker Engineering Program at Smith College remembers Sally Ride, first American woman in space, inspiring role model, and advocate for girls and women in science and engineering.

  • Campus Life
  • July 25, 2012
Sally Ride

Class of 2010 Revives Campus Sundial

A project with a 130-year history culminated last week in the installation of a new sundial in the Morris House courtyard near Green Street, replacing the original sundial given by the Class of 1883 on its 40th reunion.

  • Campus Life
  • July 24, 2012
Bronze sundial on a granite pedestal

Dewey House: Built, 1825, Rebuilt, 2012

With its creaking, uneven floors, patched siding and faded exterior, Dewey House—the current central-campus home of philosophy department offices—has not been recognizable for a long time as the “grand old house” it once was.

  • Campus Life
  • July 23, 2012
Boxes of new windows stacked up and awaiting installation

Construction on Campus: Sage Hall

For several weeks, a construction crew had a great view of the Valley from atop the dome of Sage Hall.

  • News of Note
  • July 18, 2012
Construction crews and scaffolding on the Sage Hall dome

People News, 2011-12

Donna Riley, associate professor of engineering, recently received the Sterling Olmsted Award, the highest award given by the Liberal Education/Engineering and Society Division of the American Society of Engineering Education.

  • News of Note
  • July 11, 2012

Take a Couple Hours Off for Employees Picnic

It’s the perfect excuse to get out of the office or leave your job behind for a couple hours in the middle of the week.

  • Events
  • June 27, 2012

New Interim Police Chief Appointed

Mount Holyoke College Vice President for Finance and Administration Ben Hammond announced this week that deputy police chief Ray LaBarre will serve as interim chief of police for Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Hampshire colleges.

  • News of Note
  • June 25, 2012

Smith Launches Global Financial Institutions Interdisplinary Course Program

Amid a global financial crisis that generates new headlines daily, the Smith College faculty approved the launch of a new interdisciplinary concentration on Global Financial Institutions.

  • Research & Inquiry
  • June 21, 2012

Mideast to America: Ten Iraqi Women to Visit Smith for STEM Program

Ten female Iraqi undergraduates from the College of Science for Women at the University of Baghdad will gain exposure to science and engineering education and equipment not readily available to women in their home country when they spend the month of July at Smith.

  • News of Note
  • June 13, 2012

“The Cat Lover Speaks” Exhibition at Smith

”The Cat Lover Speaks” is a fun and fact-filled exhibition of books and prints featuring felines from the collections of the Mortimer Rare Book Room at Smith College. 

  • Smith Arts
  • June 6, 2012

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