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Saving Lives in Italy for More than Seven Centuries

The Misericordia di Firenze, an association dedicated to the aid and transportation of the ill, is the oldest active confraternity of its kind in Italy and the world.

  • Campus Life
  • February 23, 2012

Rally Day 2012 Award Winners

Among its other celebrations and festivities, Rally Day provides an annual opportunity to honor Smith community members with several different awards.

  • Events
  • February 23, 2012

Actress, Comedian Jane Lynch Smith’s 2012 Commencement Speaker

 Jane Lynch, the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress of film, television and theater will be the speaker at Smith College’s 134th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 20.

  • Events
  • February 23, 2012
Jane Lynch in the crowd at Commencement

Smith to Dedicate Rochelle Braff Lazarus Center for Career Development

On March 2, Smith College will dedicate the Center for Career Development in honor of Smith alumna Rochelle “Shelly” Braff Lazarus, chairman of Ogilvy & Mather, and former chair of the Smith College Board of Trustees.

  • News of Note
  • February 23, 2012
Shelly Lazarus in the audience at the dedication

ArtsFest: Eleven Days of Performing Arts

The second annual SmithArtsFest, beginning Thursday, March 1, is a festival of festivals in which remarkable connections abound.

  • Smith Arts
  • February 21, 2012

Play Examines the Long Life of an Act of Violence

Nial killed 12-year-old Hilary 14 years ago and he’s paid for his crime. He’s finding success: a great career and a beautiful new wife, but his family is shattered by the shame.

  • Smith Arts
  • February 16, 2012
Six actors on stage around a dinner table

Spring Bulb Show Opens March 3

A spectacular array of blossoming crocuses, hyacinths, narcissi, irises, lilies and tulips will provide an early glimpse of spring at Smith College’s Lyman Conservatory from Saturday, March 3, through Sunday, March 18.

  • Events
  • February 15, 2012

Smith Medalists, Then and Now

Each year as we welcome a select group of distinguished Smith alumnae back to campus to be venerated and honored with the Smith College Medal, it’s easy to forget: they were once undergraduates here.

  • Events
  • February 14, 2012

New, Old Traditions at Rally Day 2012

Rally Day is among the grandest and oldest of traditions at Smith College. The annual celebration began the first year the college opened, in February 1876.

  • Events
  • February 14, 2012

Summer Programs Not Only About Science Anymore

For 20 years, Smith’s perennially popular Summer Science and Engineering Program (SSEP) has hosted about 100 high school girls each summer for intense 2-week sessions on robotics, mechanical engineering, chemistry and other science-related topics.

  • Research & Inquiry
  • February 14, 2012

Poets Dilruba Ahmed and Richard Jarrette to Read at Smith

Smith College will present a reading by poets Dilruba Ahmed and Richard Jarrette at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 28, in Stoddard Hall Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.

  • Events
  • February 13, 2012

They Float Through the Air with the Greatest of Ease

There once was a day, perhaps not so long past, when every kid at some point entertained a dream of running away and joining the circus. 

  • Campus Life
  • February 13, 2012

A World in One Place

On my first day at work, everyone was showing off their national pride by wearing traditional clothing to work. It was the day to wear your country’s traditional dress. However, the place where I work is not a typical office.

  • Research & Inquiry
  • February 7, 2012

Waking the Dragon in Switzerland

I am in a tiny, family-owned Asian fast-food joint in Carouge, 20 minutes from Geneva’s city center, having tracked down a personal contact of my boss.

  • Research & Inquiry
  • February 7, 2012

Exhibition Captures Sights, Sounds of Debussy’s Paris

Visitors to Smith College Museum of Art can explore the “soundscape” of Paris during the lifetime of the French composer Claude Debussy and discover the affinities between Debussy’s music and artistic developments that revolutionized the world of painting in his time.

  • Smith Arts
  • February 3, 2012

Smith Art on Display at MoMA

Currently on view at New York’s Museum of Modern Art are two Diego Rivera frescos owned by Smith, as part of the exhibition Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art.

  • Smith Arts
  • February 2, 2012

Admission Invites All to Celebrate Record Year

For the fourth straight year, more women have applied to enter Smith College than ever before.

  • News of Note
  • February 1, 2012

Smith Alumnae Rank High Among Peace Corps Volunteers

With 18 Smith women serving this year in Peace Corps jobs abroad, the college ranks 15th among small-size schools nationwide in producing volunteers for the government agency.

  • Alumnae News
  • February 1, 2012

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