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 ...

The Clark Science Center at Smith is composed of six buildings that house 14 STEM departments and programs, as well as shared facilities that support students and faculty studying and working in STEM.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...