“It was just the vibe,” Cothren says of what unexpectedly drew her to the college. When a member of the club hockey team ...

It’s the perfect way to connect the Smith community in a unique way and provide an invaluable resource for the future.” The ...

We want to do our best to support women as undergraduates, to support liberal arts education, and to support access to higher ...

It’s a phrase usually meant to spark excitement and optimism about the road ahead, but for graduates entering today’s ...

“I’ll put up a slide with a picture of the Earth spinning and just say, ‘I acknowledge the moment,’” Katz says. “On my ...

It was my first time applying for the Guggenheim Fellowship, a mid-career award for practitioners in every field of knowledge ...

The Smith community comes together for events throughout the year. From the first Rally Day in 1876, to Julia Child Day and the Sherrerd Teaching Prizes, begun in 2004, the college's annual events ...

Bentley's Miscellany was a general interest magazine, issued monthly from January 1837 until 1868. Charles Dickens was its first editor, and in the "Prologue" at the start of volume 1, he outlines the ...

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing—class time ...

My grandmother was the first woman to teach a mixed-gender Sunday school class. At first, when the boys realized what was ...

Described as being “run by squirrels, for squirrels” with the goal of “a better future where all species have seats,” the ESA ...

Is it fair to hold women athletes to men’s standards? For a long time, the idea of any human running a mile faster than 4 ...