Smith College has been named a Top Performer in the 2026 Sustainable Campus Index (SCI), ranking among the top five ...

What’s a typical Smith College student like? The answer is simple: There’s no such thing. The incoming class of 2030 ...

Labor and technology policy expert Amanda Ballantyne ’02 and global health innovator Yacine Fall ’21 will return to Smith ...

There’s no doubt about it: The 2026 World Cup is a numbers game—48 teams, 104 matches, 16 host cities (including Foxborough’s Gillette Stadium, which has undergone a temporary rebrand to Boston ...

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 ...

In late 2016, I began investigating a little-known killer named John Arthur Ackroyd, who, decades earlier, had stalked a stretch of U.S. 20 through Oregon. My editor wanted to know if a handful of ...

Just when a comprehensive volume of Sylvia Plath ’55's work was published, more work was discovered. These discoveries led to the latest publication, the variorum edition of The Poems of Sylvia Plath, ...

When Christine McCarthy ’77 was 9 years old, she had to write a report on her hero. Her choice: Amelia Earhart. “I idolized her because she did adventurous things men did and broke barriers,” McCarthy ...

Members of the Smith College class of 2027—who began receiving their acceptance letters last week—already have one notable distinction to their credit: They were chosen from the largest and most ...

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, ...

McCartney praised the retiring faculty for their teaching, and shared her hope that their next chapter would offer “opportunities for passion, risk, adventure and generativity.” The faculty members ...