Smith College’s Wurtele Center for Leadership will now be known as the Wurtele Center for Collaborative Leadership, a subtle ...

As student and alum, Sarah Netsky ’17 has long appreciated the campus’s natural beauty ...

“Are you there?” asks Robert Hass, in the opening poem of The Apple Trees at Olema. “It’s summer. Are you smeared with the juice of cherries?” A poet known for his perceptive renderings of the natural ...

Richard Wilbur is the only living American poet to have won the Pulitzer Prize twice. The second Poet Laureate of the United States and recipient of countless honors and awards, including the ...

Sarah Manguso’s poems are quixotic exercises of question and aphorism, performed in a voice that Carl Phillips has called “startling, disturbing, and original.” Like the deer tracks that dash through ...

The meaning of IS Day: “International students miss home throughout the year, and this is one of the few times that we get to reminisce about home cooking—and students, faculty, and staff get to taste ...

Samantha Torquato’s research currently focuses on elucidating the molecular biology of parasites that infect endangered wildlife. The laboratory studies parasitic nematodes from land mammals (such as ...

We want to do our best to support women as undergraduates, to support liberal arts education, and to support access to higher ...

“I’ll put up a slide with a picture of the Earth spinning and just say, ‘I acknowledge the moment,’” Katz says. “On my syllabus, I invite students to let me know when there are things going on in ...

It’s a phrase usually meant to spark excitement and optimism about the road ahead, but for graduates entering today’s ...

It was my first time applying for the Guggenheim Fellowship, a mid-career award for practitioners in every field of knowledge ...

My grandmother was the first woman to teach a mixed-gender Sunday school class. At first, when the boys realized what was going on, they walked out, but they eventually made their way back, and then ...