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 ...

The Brazilian National Library’s Jornal de Poesia ranked Adélia Prado fourth on its “List of Twenty foremost Living Poets.” Prado was born and has lived all her life in the provincial, industrial city ...

(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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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, ...

The 147th Commencement exercises of Smith College have come to a close and will linger for many years in our memories. I want to congratulate our graduates and sincerely thank the hundreds of people ...

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 Sandra Turner Bond ’74 returned to Smith to complete her degree after a year-and-a-half break, she was pleasantly surprised. When she first arrived with the class of 1973 in 1969, less than 1% of ...