Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs)—a catch-all term for head trauma, including concussions—are notoriously tricky to diagnose. X ...

But there are ways we can take inspiration from nature.” For Lama, that inspiration comes from studying the “climate ...

Matt Donovan is the author of two collections of poetry—Vellum (Mariner, 2007) and Rapture & the Big Bam (Tupelo Press , 2017)—as well as the nonfiction collection of lyric essays A Cloud of Unusual ...

Blair Bentley is an integrative biologist focusing on the impacts of climate change on wildlife populations, with a focus on marine systems. His research intersects the disciplines of ecophysiology, ...

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 ...

As a first-year Smith student, Tigress Osborn ’96 attended a Cromwell Day workshop on fat acceptance. “I wasn’t that fat, but I had a strong identity as a fat girl,” she says. “I was being told all ...

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 ...

During World War II, the campus transformed itself into U.S.S. Northampton, the official training ground for the country’s first women naval officers. The WAVES moved into student houses, did ...

Among democratic countries around the world, the United States is an outlier when it comes to guaranteeing rights for individuals based on sex or gender. This means that in America, women do not have ...

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 ...

Part two of “Women’s Clothes and the Stories They Tell” looks at the laborious undertaking of preparing the collection for its museum debut. The process of curating the Smith College Historic Clothing ...

Four distinguished leaders in the arts, academia, health and wellness, social justice, and innovation will be awarded honorary degrees at Smith’s 147th Commencement on Sunday, May 18. In a tradition ...