When making decisions about the future, “think back to this moment, right here, on the cusp of graduation,” Levine advised.

I entered Smith in 1949, uncertain and unsure. I graduated in 1953, confident and more aware of who I was. During those in-between years, I struggled mightily for several reasons.

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 ...

Martha Ackelsberg joined the Smith faculty in 1972, was appointed Five College 40th Anniversary Professor in 2006, and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor in 2007. She retired at the end of 2014. At Smith, ...

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 ...

Did you ever have trouble deciding on a major? What, ultimately, helped you decide? When I originally came to Smith, I knew that I wanted to be a STEM major, but I had no idea where that would lead me ...

Naomi Miller teaches in the department of English as well as the Study of Women & Gender. Her teaching interests include Shakespeare, early modern women authors, lyric poetry of all periods and ...

The annual Draper Competition for Collegiate Women Entrepreneurs is designed to hone the skills that undergraduate women need to advance from idea to venture creation. Through multiple rounds of ...

In 2024, I spent the summer working on climate change communications for the Office of Protected Resources in National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries. With guidance from my ...

As a microscopist and cell biologist, Judith Wopereis is interested in the use of microscopical techniques to visualize and characterize small biological structures. Her main focus is the study of ...

Pamela Petro is an author, artist and educator living in Northampton. She has written three place­-based creative nonfiction books as well as articles and essays for many publications, including The ...

Describe your major in five words or less. I think the combination of studying government and sociology at Smith is really studying American institutional policy and how it impacts the public. (I know ...