Stay Connected to Smith

• In September of 1875, Smith opened its doors to 14 students and six faculty members. Ever since then, we’ve been pushing the world forward in profound ways. Throughout 2025, we’ll celebrate 150 years of Smith as a college of and for the world.
• Meet Sarah Willie-LeBreton, Smith’s 12th president.
• For the first time in more than 25 years, the Smith Quarterly has undergone a complete redesign.
• A new building, Kathleen McCartney Hall, will house the Lazarus Center for Career Development and the Wurtele Center for Leadership.
• The Smith 2035 Vision Statement forms a framework for pondering how the college’s future will unfold in relation to trends and challenges, known and unknown, in society, culture and higher education.

• Smith’s innovative geothermal campus energy project will help the college achieve carbon neutrality by 2030.
• Floyd Cheung, professor and vice president for equity and inclusion, reflects on implementing Toward Racial Justice at Smith College—a strategic plan developed to advance antiracism work and make Smith truly inclusive.
• Learn more about how Smith replaced loans with grants in financial aid awards.
• Learn about the college’s Here for Every Voice scholarship aid fundraising initiative, and hear from students  about how aid has transformed their lives. 

Explore your alum website. Bookmark the site, then check back often to watch webinars, learn about upcoming events, see what fellow Smithies are up to and much more.

• View this workshop on using LinkedIn and the Alumnae Directory, now called The Network, for your job and internship search.
• Our virtual Alum Book Club offers a wonderful way to connect with Smith alums, explore important topics, and broaden your network.
• Access the Smith College library online and continue the joy of learning.
• Check in with your local club to see what programs are offered in your regional community.
• Travel with Smith to the Galápagos Islands, Peru, and Antarctica.
• Celebrate the centennial of the Smith College Paris Study Abroad Program in June 2025.

Sign up for one of Smith’s webinars and check out the Smith College Alumnae YouTube Channel for one of our previously recorded webinars, including:

• Eunice Hunton Carter, Class of 1921: The Black Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster
• Ruth Ozeki ’80: On Writing
• Explore Julia Child ’34’s former home in the south of France
• Band of Sisters: The Smithies Who Brought the Grécourt Gates to Smith

• For a group of students, January was the perfect time for a woodworking master class.
• Smith is the first women’s college to have a poetry press! While interning at Perugia Press, Adrie Rose AC ’22 realized that there wasn’t a single women’s college with its own poetry press. In an article for the Smith Quarterly, she shares how she rectified that by helping to establish Nine Syllables Press at Smith.
• At Dawes House, Cook’s Assistant Julian Martineau prepares delicious, nutritious meals for Smith’s gluten-free dining hall. He’s a beloved staffer for his commitment to keeping food-sensitive Smithies safe—so much so that he received an Elizabeth B. Wyandt Gavel Award in 2023.
• Meet the 2025 Smith Medalists: Nancy Weiss Malkiel ’65, historian; Deborah Farrington ’72, venture capitalist and entrepreneur; Iris González ’11, engineer; and Margaret Nyamumbo ’11, entrepreneur.

• Three campus houses have been named for women who had an impact at Smith—and beyond.
• Younes Rahmoun: Here, Now is the first North American exhibition devoted to the art of Younes Rahmoun, one of Morocco’s leading contemporary artists. It is on view at the Smith College Museum of Art through July 13, 2025. Admission to the museum is free, thanks to three generous Smith alums.
• Smith will receive new and improved technology as part of a $555,232 state Workforce Development Capital Grant that seeks to prepare more students for careers in the life sciences and other STEM fields. Read more in the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
• Get to know our Alumnae Relations and Development staff members.

• Audrey Banie ’27 won the Best Pitch prize in the 2024 Elevator Pitch Contest sponsored by Smith’s Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center for her enterprise, “Grow.”
• Smith basketball player Hannah Martin ’27 was named NEWMAC Offensive Athlete of the Week after leading the Pioneers to a non-conference win in December over Trinity College. Martin was also named to the NEWBA Weekly Honor Roll First Team.
• An op-ed by government major Emma Roberts ’26, The focus on Susan Collins shows a double standard, was recently published in the Bangor Daily News.
• Liliane Braun-Arnold ’26, author of The Last Bookstore on Earth, is interviewed by Kirkus Reviews in How To Publish a YA Novel While You’re in College.
• Hear from students in the latest issue of The Sophian.