Smith may be far from the coast, but every summer students on campus still SURF. Through the college’s 10-week Summer ...

When a few students told her the topic of her workshops was so good that it could have been a TED Talk, Maer submitted an ...

Adrianne R. Todman ’91 is returning to the Smith College Board of Trustees after being elected to a new four-year term. She ...

If you live in Suffolk, Norfolk, or Middlesex Counties, your admission counselor is: If you live in Hampshire, Hampden, Berkshire, or Franklin Counties, your admission counselor is: If you live in ...

Please join us in reading Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot, our 2026 Smith Reads selection. This award-winning collection of two novellas imagines a hopeful future of a world recovering from ecological ...

Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf: A Choreo-Poem, with its spectrum of revelatory voices exploring a black woman’s experience, changed the face of ...

Jorge Vásquez’s research lies in the area of applied microeconomic theory, where he leverages theoretical tools as well as insights from behavioral economics, industrial organization, and law and ...

Jennifer Baumgardner is the Lucille Geier Lakes writer-in-residence at Smith College (2024-2027), a position endowed by Congresswoman Jane Harman (Smith, ’66). Originally from the Midwest (raised in ...

Winner of both the Pulitzer and the National Book Award for his Selected Poems, and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, Galway Kinnell has been a major figure in American poetry for over four ...

Gerald Stern is an American master. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1925, Stern himself had no mentors. He grew up in a home without books, a child of immigrant parents, and studied philosophy ...

Many of the women Plath met at college became her friends for life. This letter to her college roommate, Marcia Brown, was written a week before her death. Plath and Ted Hughes had separated the ...

Smith College allows a variety of styles in its photography, but the photos need a certain feel—warm, authentic and natural. This is best achieved by photographing students as they are in the places ...