A retired admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, Levine is only the sixth female, and the first openly ...

Barresi, who is professor of biological sciences and chair of the Smith College neuroscience program, is creating artworks ...

The Birds, Cujo, Jaws. Horror has never been short on terrifying animals. The earthworms in Shira Siegal ’25’s short film in ...

Peyton Higgins ’18 rejoined the Smith community as a visiting assistant professor in 2025. As a teaching focused faculty member for general and organic chemistry, their goal is to teach chemistry as a ...

Learn more about how Smith is providing resources and support for Smith's on-campus community related to antisemitism and Islamophobia. For this special issue—celebrating Smith’s 150th anniversary—we ...

The Derr lab pursues the biophysical, biochemical, and cell biological mechanisms of the cytoskeletal molecular motors dynein and kinesin. The group studies these molecular machines in two ways: 1) at ...

On Saturday, November 1, Smith College will celebrate its 150th anniversary with a series of events across campus. Please note that while some events are open to the entire Smith community and the ...

Carrie N. Baker teaches courses on gender, law and public policy; feminist social movements; and feminist public writing. Baker is affiliated with the American Studies Program, the public policy minor ...

The Jandon Center engages faculty, students and community partners on social-change projects that tackle community-driven goals. Through experiential learning and scholarship, students build essential ...

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 ...

As a first-year Smith student, Tigress Osborn ’96 attended a Cromwell Day workshop on fat acceptance. “I wasn’t that fat, but I had a strong identity as a fat girl,” she says. “I was being told all ...

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 ...