Smith College Professor Michael Thurston uncovers how one influential critic helped shape the early American literary landscape As difficult as it might be to believe today, there wasn’t much support ...

Ungulates (2 toes): A hoofed mammal, including deer, moose, horse. Rodents (5 rear toes/4 front): Gnawing animals, including squirrels, rats, mice, porcupines and beavers. Stunted conifers: A ...

Garnett, a government major, doesn’t shy away from difficult conversations. In high school, she successfully took on the ...

At the conclusion of the semester, Hyde and her students collaborated with the librarians at the Hillyer Art Library to adapt the students’ stories into zines. Students were inspired by everything ...

If you don’t know how to use media, media will use you. The Department of Film and Media Studies helps students become thoughtful viewers and skillful producers of moving image media—a cultural force ...

Smithie Snapshots is a profile series highlighting members of the Smith community from all over the world, including entering new students. Smithies support each other in uncountable ways. From ...

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 ...

Sometimes the best ideas come together at the very last minute. That was the case for Smith College students Mary Clare Michael ’26 and Diane Okong’o ’27, two of the five winners of the Jill Ker ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Martha Tolles ’43 has a fundamental approach to writing: “Start off with reality and then make it up from there.” It has served her well over the decades. The famed children’s author of the Katie ...