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 College for the 2026–27 Presidential Colloquia speaker series, where they will ...

Claire Sullivan ’25 willingly agreed to enter the manosphere. As part of her Smith degree in the study of women and gender, she created a special studies project exploring the origins, philosophies, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Syphilis existed in medieval Europe, and it caused the death of England’s King Edward IV. That’s the surprising argument of Smith College scholar Marylynn Salmon, just published in The Medieval Globe, ...

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 ...

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.

Smith College President Sarah Willie-LeBreton has been named to the second cohort of the Aspen-Kern Presidential Leadership Fellowship, a national initiative dedicated to supporting college presidents ...

Former Smith president Ruth J. Simmons will speak on campus March 4, at 4:30 p.m. in Weinstein Auditorium. Former Smith President Ruth J. Simmons begins her new memoir, Up Home: One Girl’s Journey, ...