As the pandemic wore on, I became fascinated by how people’s attitudes toward it were changing. I wanted to learn more about ...

The study identifies an important paradox about grading at Smith: Students still want to be graded on their performance and rewarded for individual merit. But they also want a classroom feedback ...

(NORTHAMPTON, Mass. – February 2, 2026) Two-time National Book Award Winner Jesmyn Ward, hailed as the standout writer of her generation, will visit Smith College on Wednesday, March 25, to deliver a ...

Poet, teacher and essayist Danusha Laméris is the author of two books of poetry: The Moons of August (Autumn House, 2014) and Bonfire Opera, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), for which she was ...

In her new book, Posthuman Bliss? The Failed Promise of Transhumanism, Susan B. Levin, Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, offers what Bruce Jennings of Vanderbilt ...

Smith College is in the midst of a major energy transformation. After nearly two years of digging, installation of piping, and construction, buildings on the north side of campus are now being heated ...

When Wisconsin Democrat Tammy Baldwin ’84 won her third U.S. Senate race in November, even Fox News wanted to hear from her. Baldwin won by 28,781 votes—almost the exact margin that carried Donald ...

In summer 2022, Smith will begin work on a bold geothermal campus energy project that will lower the college’s carbon emissions by 90 percent, allowing the college to become carbon neutral by 2030.

For a long time, the idea of any human running a mile faster than 4 minutes was thought of as the impossible. But in the months after England’s Roger Bannister finally broke that record in 1954, ...

As part of marking its 150th anniversary, the college announced today a bold new initiative, The Next 150 Pledge, that will make Smith tuition free for undergraduate students from families with annual ...

As a child growing up in a small town northwest of Chicago, Charlotte Feng Ford ’83 loved to collect things: baseball cards, dolls, the usual markers of youth. Then, when she was 12 years old, her ...

We’re going to need more honey for Friday tea. After nearly 40 years as the Pioneers, the college is embracing a bold—and fuzzy—new moniker: the Smith Bears. The new moniker reflects the strength and ...