An expert on American political institutions, Leavitt notes that the U.S. has a “long history of effective government ...

That sentiment is the goal of the Smith College Meal Club, a new monthly dining experience for Smith’s faculty and staff. For ...

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 ...

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 | 7:30-9 p.m. There are lots of tunes named after Maggie, but what about Emmett's Hedgehog, and Dever the Dancer? ...

“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 ...

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

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 ...

A book about hidden patterns of human behavior, a pre-Civil War novel set in Virginia, a cautionary tale about a hike in the White Mountains gone wrong: Here’s what some faculty and staff members ...

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 ...

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 ...