AC Manning ’25, a recent graduate of Smith College, will be part of the first cohort of the Lafayette Fellowship, a new ...

The Fellowships & Postgraduate Scholarships Program supports Smith students and recent alums who want to apply for national and international fellowships and scholarships. Our approach revolves around ...

Born on the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean, Robyn Quinnett began playing violin at eight years old. She has won several competitions including the National Mariam Hayes and Ruth Kern ...

Dr. Anna Baeth (she/her) is a critical feminist scholar and a cultural studies practitioner of sport. Her research centers on the gendering of sport spaces, the eternally moving body, and social ...

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 ...

There’s no doubt about it: The 2026 World Cup is a numbers game—48 teams, 104 matches, 16 host cities (including Foxborough’s Gillette Stadium, which has undergone a temporary rebrand to Boston ...

We’re going to need more honey for Friday tea. After nearly 40 years as the Pioneers, the college is embracing a bold—and fuzzy—new moniker: the Smith Bears. The new moniker reflects the strength and ...

When Wisconsin Democrat Tammy Baldwin ’84 won her third U.S. Senate race in November, even Fox News wanted to hear from her. Baldwin won by 28,781 votes—almost the exact margin that carried Donald ...

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 ...

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 ...