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 ...

Here, Farrington shares the lessons she learned at Smith, why women’s colleges remain relevant, and her reaction to receiving ...

The college now sends 250 to 300 tons a year to the Vanguard facility, at a cost of $90 per ton. The switch has reduced both ...

In 1969, Nancy Weiss Malkiel ’65 became the first woman to join the faculty of Princeton University’s history department. She ...

For Nyamumbo, Kahawa (Swahili for “coffee”) 1893 is an opportunity for her to give back—not only to her home village and ...

In addition to holding the Janet Wright Ketcham 1953 Chair in Middle East Studies, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government, Steven Heydemann is a nonresident senior fellow in the ...

Carol Zaleski earned her B.A. from Wesleyan University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in the study of religion from Harvard University. She has been teaching philosophy of religion, world religions and ...

Jessica Moyer grew up in Old Town, Maine. She studied classics at Kenyon College, taught English at Qinghai Normal University in northwestern China, and got her master's and doctorate in Chinese ...

Sara Newland is a scholar of local politics in China and Taiwan, and seeks to understand the behavior of local officials as domestic public servants and as actors in international relations. Her ...

Katherine M. Kinnaird is a computational researcher working at the intersection of machine learning, mathematics and cultural analytics. The central driving force behind her work is the building and ...

Hans Rudolf Vaget is professor emeritus of German studies and comparative literature at Smith, where he taught from 1967 to 2004. He received his academic training at the universities of Munich and ...

Getting to study in England was life-changing for Vicki Johnson ’87—and now her daughter, Sula Johnson ’26, is getting the ...