Fourteen new tenure-track professors will begin teaching at Smith this fall in disciplines ranging from economics to Jewish studies to biological sciences—among other subjects.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During World War II, the campus transformed itself into U.S.S. Northampton, the official training ground for the country’s first women naval officers. The WAVES moved into student houses, did ...

Just when a comprehensive volume of Sylvia Plath ’55's work was published, more work was discovered. These discoveries led to the latest publication, the variorum edition of The Poems of Sylvia Plath, ...

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 ...

Smith College President Sarah Willie-LeBreton has been named to the second cohort of the Aspen-Kern Presidential Leadership Fellowship, a national initiative dedicated to supporting college presidents ...