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 ...

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 ...

Nnamdi Pole earned his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999 and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San ...

Alta Rodriguez is senior counsel in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, leading transformational projects and initiatives in support of equity, and ...

Describe your major for someone who has never heard of your field before. You know when you go to the beach, and poke a jellyfish with a stick or throw seaweed at your sister? It’s that but with a ...

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 ...

What brought you to Smith? I started at Smith in 2014 in the Department of Exercise & Sports Studies (ESS), where I worked closely with graduate students pursuing careers in collegiate coaching. I ...

Ella Longpre is the author of How to Keep You Alive (CCM 2017), named by Dennis Cooper as one of the best books of 2017, and to which Lidia Yuknavitch responded, "I've never read a book like this in ...

What brought you to Smith? Smith holds a special place in my heart, as my spouse and best friend are both Smithies, classes of 2010 and 2014, respectively. Hearing, and seeing, how Smith impacted ...

Amy Ellis Nutt is a journalist, author, and teacher. She received the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing in 2011 and is currently working on her fourth book. Amy was a Smith College Medal recipient in ...

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 ...

Peris is focused on changing the world for women, particularly women of color. “I am a self that is always becoming,” says the Nairobi native, the first in her family to go to college, and the very ...