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Taking the ‘Next Practical Step’

Smith’s career development program is helping students navigate job market uncertainty

Alum News

This Was Not in the Brochure

Phoebe Potts ’92 proves that humor can be an antidote to the emotional highs and lows of adoption.

  • Alum News
  • July 16, 2025

Learn more about how Smith is providing resources and support for Smith's on-campus community related to antisemitism and Islamophobia.

Smith Quarterly

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On the Cover, Spring 2025

Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin ’84’s strategy isn’t flashy, but it works: Meet people where they are, listen to their concerns, and get things done. Learn more about how she wins in a divided America.

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Looking for a timely list of Smith students, faculty, staff, and alums featured in major media outlets? Check out Smith in the News.

Smith Quarterly

Lights, Values, Action

Yasmin Chin Eisenhauer ’94 has turned Amherst Cinema into a hub for community connection.

  • Smith Quarterly
  • October 15, 2024
Smith Quarterly

What Makes a Leader?

Smithies rethink models of what leadership looks like.

  • Smith Quarterly
  • October 15, 2024

People News

Lydia Crafts ’05 Appointed to MaineHealth Lincoln Hospital Board

  • January 22, 2025

Maine House Representative Lydia Crafts ’05 has been appointed to the board of directors of MaineHealth Lincoln Hospital. Crafts, who majored in anthropology at Smith and earned an M.S.W. from the University of Maine, was selected for her “dedication to the issues that are essential to the delivery of quality healthcare in a rural setting like ours,” according to an announcement from the nominating committee.

Nilanjana (Buju) Dasgupta ’92 Authors New Book

  • January 22, 2025

Nilanjana (Buju) Dasgupta ’92, who is a provost professor and the founding director of the Institute of Diversity Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is the author of Change the Wallpaper: Transforming Cultural Patterns to Build More Just Communities (Yale University Press). The book points to research-backed strategies that produce positive change, helping readers recognize how individuals acting together in groups is essential to dismantling the status quo. Dasgupta earned her Smith degree in psychology and a Ph.D. in social psychology from Yale. She will have a conversation about her new book with Smith Professor Carrie Baker on Tuesday, Feb. 18, at 6:30 p.m. at Forbes Library in Northampton.

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Other News & Publications

Smith Quarterly  
The Smith Quarterly was established in 1909 and is published by the Office of College Relations four times a year.

Smith eDigest
The Smith eDigest is sent to all campus e-mail accounts, providing important notices, college news, deadline notifications and other college information.

Notes From Paradise
Distributed weekly by the Office of College Relations, Notes From Paradise is an e-newsletter for alumnae, faculty, staff, students and friends of the college.

Insight
Insight was an online journal chronicling the ideas, intellectual life and creative thinking inherent within the culture of research and the liberal arts at Smith. It was published from 2010 to 2016.

The Sophian
The Sophian is the official, independent student newspaper.

NewsSmith
Published through Spring 2010, NewsSmith was distributed by the Office of College Relations for alumnae, staff, students and friends.

Library Events, Exhibitions & News
Listings of upcoming events at the libraries, current exhibitions, links to online exhibits and to newsletters, including News from the Smith College Libraries, Friends of the Libraries Newsletter and the Sophia Smith Collection’s Imposing Evidence.

Smith College Studies in Social Work
Since 1930, the Smith College Studies in Social Work has published materials of interest to clinical social workers and social work educators.

Smith in the News
A timely list of Smith students, faculty, staff, and alums featured in major media outlets, highlighting everything from political discourse to cutting-edge research.

Meridians
Meridians, a collaborative venture of Smith’s Women’s Studies Program and Wesleyan University, is a new feminist interdisciplinary journal and forum for scholarship and creative work by and about women of color.

Amazonian Literary Review
The Amazonian Literary Review is a journal dedicated to the literary traditions of the countries of the Amazonian Basin.

Botanic Garden News
Published twice each year by the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

Smith Style Guide
Maintained by the Office of College Relations, the Smith Style Guide is a reference for Smith-specific words and phrases.