Lectures by new Chaired Professors, sponsored by the President of Smith College. These lectures are free and open to the public.

With rapid advances in artificial intelligence sparking urgent global debates about human labor, technology access, and ...

It allowed me to begin to imagine a career as an academic and doing what I came to specialize in, which is qualitative ...

Following a national search, Smith College has named ej seibert ’08 as its next Vice President for Equity and Inclusion.

The new microscope, which replaces an outdated 2001 model, provides images at the nanoscale: billionths of a meter. In addition, it can produce images with minimal preparation of samples. The ...

What do the New York Knicks City Hall Ceremony, an Alex Warren concert, and Elie Pichanick ’27’s internship have in common? They all took place at Madison Square Garden (MSG) in New York City. During ...

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. At a ceremony held ...

What’s a typical Smith College student like? The answer is simple: There’s no such thing. The incoming class of 2030 represents a highly selective cohort that brings with it an extraordinary range of ...

Labor and technology policy expert Amanda Ballantyne ’02 and global health innovator Yacine Fall ’21 will return to Smith College for the 2026–27 Presidential Colloquia speaker series, where they will ...

The swamp area around the University of Rhode Island (URI) is where Chloe Dyehouse ’28 spent most of her summer as a National Science Foundation intern studying native plants to evaluate the timing of ...

Smith may be far from the coast, but every summer students on campus still SURF. Through the college’s 10-week Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), undergraduates are paired with faculty ...

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 ...