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Smith Team Departs for Summer on the Reef
As the Smith College Coral Reef Ed-Ventures Program enters its 13th year, students gear up for another fun and educational summer running youth camps in San Pedro on Ambergris Caye, Belize.
- Research & Inquiry
- June 5, 2012
Elizabeth Mugar Eveillard Named Chair of Smith College Board of Trustees
The Smith College Board of Trustees recently elected longtime investment banker Elizabeth Mugar Eveillard, a member of the Class of 1969, as the next chair of the board. She will serve a three-year term beginning July 1.
- News of Note
- May 29, 2012
Smith Recognized for Excellence in Undergraduate Science Education
Smith College is among a handful of the nation’s small colleges and universities this year to receive the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Capstone Award.
- Research & Inquiry
- May 24, 2012
Helen Gurley Brown Magic Grant Awarded to Recent Graduate
Smith College awarded a $23,000 grant to new alumna Cassandra Holden to enable her to create a public artwork with students in a local alternative education program for pregnant and parenting teens who have dropped out of high school.
- News of Note
- May 18, 2012
Smith Sophomore to Bike 4,000 Miles for Cancer
Her grandfather is an avid cyclist, bike commuting to work every day as he nears age 80. Her father is a lifelong cyclist, too, and she grew up watching him ride the MS 150, a one-day, 150-mile ride to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
- Campus Life
- May 10, 2012
Students Help Restore Luster to Hartford Jewel
Keney Park isn’t what it used to be. But Smith students and faculty are working to restore the one-time jewel of Hartford’s nationally renowned parks system.
- Research & Inquiry
- May 7, 2012
Love for the Environment is in the Blood
Emily Olmsted ’14 may not be a direct descendant of Frederick Law Olmsted, but she carries at least a trace of his lineage, and her family has always considered the “father of landscape architecture” an honored member.
- Sustainability
- May 2, 2012
In Memory of Lory Wallfisch
A concert in memoriam to the late Lory Wallfisch, Iva Dee Hiatt Chair in music and professor emerita at Smith, will take place on Saturday, May 5, at 8 p.m. in Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall.
- Smith Arts
- April 26, 2012
Ada Monologues: A Mother’s Story
Before the sunrise, before the birds start chirping, before people go to work, before children go to school, my mother woke up. She went through the six floors of the building we lived in to collect industrial-sized garbage bags.
- Campus Life
- April 24, 2012
Ada Monologues: The Jacket
This Smith College jacket is my favorite article of clothing. The story of my life is woven into this fabric…my hopes, my dreams, my failures, my triumphs, laughter, love, heart ache, disappointment and joy, all woven into this jacket that I’m wearing.
- Campus Life
- April 24, 2012
Ada Monologues: Mr. Mac’s Love Attack
I cut the perfect line with my paintbrush between the white ceiling and the wall that’s becoming red from white. My experience tells me that going slower gives me a crisper line and I can make it look straight even when the wall itself is not.
- Campus Life
- April 24, 2012
Presidential Seminar Goes Straight to the Source
In most seminars students read salient scholarship on the topic at hand and discuss what they’ve read.
- Research & Inquiry
- April 18, 2012
Three Faculty Members Honored for Their Teaching
Three faculty members were named recently as winners of the Kathleen Compton Sherrerd ’54 and John J. F. Sherrerd Prizes for Distinguished Teaching.
- Research & Inquiry
- April 17, 2012
Smith Stories Project Begins Today
One of the great challenges of a diverse institution is finding ways of ensuring that all voices are heard and taken seriously.
- News of Note
- April 10, 2012
Smith Stories Project, Other Activities Invite Dialogue
The Smith community is invited to participate in several upcoming and ongoing events intended to inspire dialogue on campus following recent incidents challenging the college’s commitment to welcoming diversity and celebrating difference.
- News of Note
- April 10, 2012
Remembering Isabel Brown Wilson ’53
Just after they graduated in 1953, Jane Chace Carroll and Isabel Brown Wilson decided they wanted to see the world. “We were young and looking for a new adventure,” Carroll recalled.
- News of Note
- April 9, 2012
Poetry Center Founder Annie Boutelle to Read From New Collection
Annie Boutelle, founder of the Poetry Center at Smith College, will read from her latest collection at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24, in Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
- Events
- April 5, 2012
Ada Monologues
Ask an Ada Comstock Scholar what she did before coming to Smith, and you’re likely to get some amazing answers.
- Campus Life
- April 4, 2012
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