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 ...

Friday, May 16, 2025 | 4:30-5:30 p.m. The Smith College Department of Music presents a special Chamber Music recital featuring graduating ...

Abby Allen ’19 grew up in Minnesota, where her family belonged to a conservative Jewish congregation and she attended Jewish ...

Sarah Peskin ’71 credits Smith with inspiring her mission to preserve Frances Perkins’s historic home I often tell people ...

Held has since expanded her own culinary empire by serving as CEO of RecipeKick, an online platform that provides live cooking classes and other resources for home chefs, and writing her first ...

“What began as a lifeline has evolved into a thriving, supportive community for all of us,” says Mykhailova. “It goes to show ...

After nearly 40 years as the Pioneers, the college is embracing a bold—and fuzzy—new moniker: the Smith Bears. The new ...

In this image of Izamal’s great pyramid, Kinich Kak Mo, the colossal head of a Maya figure looms high above the expedition’s naturalist, Dr. Samuel Cabot, Jr., and an unnamed Maya attendant.

The Egyptians were among the first to use cosmetics and perfumes. As early as 10,000 BCE, both men and women used scented oils and ointments to clean and soften the skin (and to mask body odor), and ...

Heron, the great inventor of Alexandria, described in detail what is thought to be the first working steam engine. He called it an aeolipile, or "wind ball". His design was a sealed caldron of water ...

We enhance and broaden the liberal arts curriculum with a commitment to research, scholarship and professional development, while preparing a diverse student body to be innovative and responsible ...

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing—class time ...