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Senior Dance Concert a Range of Choreography Styles
Six senior dance majors will present choreographed works in a variety of movement vocabularies, from neo-classical ballets en pointe to contact duets and everything in between during the annual Senior Dance Concert.
- Smith Arts
- April 4, 2012
The Power of the Printed Page Endures
In a landscape teeming with laptops, iPads, iPods, Kindles and Nooks, where does something as seemingly old-fashioned as the ink-and-paper book fit in? Does it have a viable future?
- Research & Inquiry
- April 1, 2012
The Smith Fund: Strong Support for 100 Years
The Smith Fund celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. That means that for a century, since 1911, this essential fund of resources has provided vital support for the academic, cross-curricular and cultural programs and opportunities that pave the way for Smith women to become leaders and innovators.
- Supporting Smith
- March 30, 2012
Q&A: Daniel Horowitz, Author of “Consuming Pleasures”
Daniel Horowitz’s latest book on the culture of consumption traces a shift among American intellectuals, away from a condemnation of all things popular culture toward a critical appreciation of its “rich inventiveness.”
- Research & Inquiry
- March 29, 2012
Interim Director at the Helm at AASC
Mary Ann Hill joined Smith this month as the interim executive director of the Alumnae Association, following 11 years in the position of assistant vice president for public affairs at Wellesley College.
- News of Note
- March 28, 2012
Irish Poet Eavan Boland and High School Prize Winners to Read at Smith
Smith College will present a reading by award-winning Irish poet Eavan Boland at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, in Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall.
- Events
- March 15, 2012
Smith College to Serve as Chief Academic Planning Partner for New Women’s University in Asia
Smith College will serve as the primary U.S. academic planning partner for the establishment of an academically rigorous undergraduate liberal arts women’s university in Malaysia.
- News of Note
- March 15, 2012
Arriving From Asia, Belonging at Smith
An Interview with AMS students Yuanyuan Liu, of Yantai, China, and Kyoko Kitada, of Kyoto, Japan
- Campus Life
- March 9, 2012
France, Malta, America—a Tour of Educational Experiences
An Interview with AMS student Chloé Pulice, of the University of Paris
- Campus Life
- March 9, 2012
Once Again, Smith Donors Stepping Up
With less than a quarter of a year remaining in this year’s effort, the Smith College United Way campaign is again poised to set an example of strong giving in the community.
- News of Note
- March 8, 2012
Crew Team to Row for Western Mass Food Bank
Smith crew team members will defy the cold for a good cause on Friday, March 9, as they strengthen their skills on rowing machines outside throughout the day to raise money for a local charity.
- Athletics
- March 6, 2012
Smith Board Approves Faculty Promotions
At its March meeting, the Smith College Board of Trustees approved tenure and promotion recommendations for eighteen faculty members.
- News of Note
- March 6, 2012
One Year Later, Smith Remembers Fukushima
One year after a devastating off-shore earthquake and resultant tsunami struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant on the east coast of Japan, on March 11, 2011, scientists and researchers are still learning about the full impact of the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986.
- Events
- March 1, 2012
“Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley” on View at Smith Through May
“Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley,” an exhibition on view at Smith College through the end of May, celebrates the variety of color, design and technique of a special type of decorated paper—paste paper—produced as artwork on its own and for use in collages and book bindings.
- Smith Arts
- February 29, 2012
Poet Patrick Donnelly to Read at Smith College
Smith College will present a book launch and poetry reading by Patrick Donnelly at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13, in Stoddard Hall Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
- Events
- February 28, 2012
SSW Prof Gains New Perspective Through Disaster
On the heels of publishing his latest book, Psychosocial Capacity Building in Response to Disasters, Josh Miller experienced his own life-threatening crisis while riding a motorcycle in Thailand.
- Research & Inquiry
- February 28, 2012
A Story of Two Smith “Society Girls” in the Wild West
Nearly a hundred years ago, when two Smith graduates—“society girls,” as they would be called then—arrived at their destination, the wild, mountainous landscape of a largely unsettled Colorado, the experience was far outside their realm of reference.
- Events
- February 27, 2012
Investment Guru Burton Malkiel: Timeless, and Timely, Lessons
Burton Malkiel, author of the highly regarded and widely read investment tome A Random Walk Down Wall Street, will share investment lessons with a gathering at Smith College.
- Events
- February 27, 2012
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