I have had a fulfilling career teaching English and creative writing to college and high school students. After Smith, I ...

The Smith community comes together for events throughout the year. From the first Rally Day in 1876, to Julia Child Day and the Sherrerd Teaching Prizes, begun in 2004, the college's annual events ...

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | 7:30-9 p.m. The Smith College Gamelan Ensemble presents an evening of music from Java, Indonesia under the direc ...

From lectures to workshops, there's always something going on related to sustainability. Here’s a list of events from across campus that touch on the economic, social, or environmental components of ...

What does it mean to be a woman in contemporary South Korea? How do structural inequalities shape women’s lives from childhood to adulthood? And why did a single novel ignite nationwide debates on ...

Used in classical Athens, the Chelys-Lyra is a lyre consisting of a tortoise-shell sound compartment with skin stretched over the opening. Two bars with a crossbar attached extend from the shell and ...

Introduced in 2024, the Smith Office for the Arts (SOFA) presents Smith Arts Day, a daylong celebration of the artistic and creative community at Smith College that brings the arts together—across ...

For centuries people have used cosmetics to enhance or decorate the human figure for aesthetic or religious purposes. The earliest archaeological evidence of the use of cosmetics can be traced back to ...

Before she graduated in May, Trinity Peacock-Broyles took a personal interest in Smith history and spent a few afternoons in the College Archives sifting through century-old student handbooks and ...

The catapult was an ancient siege machine that could hurl heavy objects or shoot arrows with great force and for considerable distances. Some catapults could throw stones weighing as much as 350 ...

For 150 years, Smith has stood as a beacon for knowledge, equality, and progress—while at the same time upholding unique traditions that have come to define the Smith experience. A college rich in ...

The Department of Biological Sciences treats the life sciences in all their breadth and diversity, including the study of molecules, cells, whole organisms, ecosystems, plants, animals and ...