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Events at Smith

Walk With the Indian Doctress: Restorative Approaches to Interpreting Native American Medicine
November 4, 2022
In her multi-modal career as a performer, ethnographer, historian, and museum consultant, Dr. Margaret M. Bruchac (Abenaki)has long been committed to critical analyses of colonial histories and recoveries of Indigenous histories. In this talk, Bruchac will discuss her research on Native medicine. At the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Bruchac is an Associate Professor of Anthropology, Coordinator of Native American and Indigenous Studies, and Associate Faculty in the Penn Cultural Heritage Center. She also directs “The Wampum Trail,” a restorative research project designed to reconnect wampum belts in museum collections with their related Indigenous communities. Free and open to the public.
Campus Center Carroll Room, Smith College
7:30 pm

Geothermal Project Tour
November 7, 2022
Have you been wondering what that construction going on outside is? Have you ever been inside a Smith building in the summer and wondered when we'll install AC? Have you ever wanted to know what the college is doing to combat climate change? Come find out the answers to these questions and more on one of our student-run Geothermal Project Tours! Rain date is 11/8 at the same time. Open to all in the Smith community.
Meet at the Elm St entrance to the Campus Center
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm

Blue Foods: Challenges and Opportunities in the Local and Global Seafood Marketplace
November 7, 2022
Presentation by Kyle Foley, Sustainable Seafood Senior Program Manager at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. Open to all in the Smith community, this is part of the ENX 100 lecture series.
Neilson Browsing Room
3:05 pm to 4:20 pm

Smith in Hamburg Info Session
November 8, 2022
Come learn about the exciting opportunities offered by the Smith in Hamburg program! Study in one of Europe's most sustainable cities at Universität Hamburg and the Smith Center with a new option that requires little German-language proficiency for the fall semester. In this session you will hear from program directors and faculty about life on the Smith in Hamburg program.
Dewey Common Room
12:15 pm

How I Became a Labor Organizer
November 8, 2022
Come meet alums Andrea Schmid ('17) and Gabriella della Croce ('11) who do organizing around immigrants and workers' rights in your backyard. They will share stories & insights from their movement works in this valley, and answers questions over snacks and drinks. Sponsored by the Program for the Study of Women and Gender.
Dewey Common Room
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm

NOAA Summer Internship Presentations
November 9, 2022
Hear from three Smithies who spent their summer interning with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and find out how you might intern with NOAA in summer 2023! Today's presentations include Marit Chauvin '23: Climate and Anthropogenic Impacts on Critical Reserve Habitats: The Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Sentinel Site Program; Helen Glover '24: Engaging opportunity to develop communications focused on conserving threatened and endangered marine species; and Rebeca Castro '24 Understanding Sea Level Rise Impacts to Wetlands at the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve. Lunch provided.
CEEDS
12:15 pm to 1:10 pm

ES&P Study Abroad Info Session
November 9, 2022
Students interested in studying abroad with a program that has an environmental focus should plan to attend this information session. Students will learn about the different types of programs available and ES&P majors who studied abroad last year will share their stories. Angelo Pisano, Study Abroad Coordinator, will also be there to answer questions about all of the programs available that have an environmental focus. Snacks provided.
CEEDS
4:15 pm

NOAA Summer Internship Presentations
November 10, 2022
Hear from three Smithies who spent their summer interning with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and find out how you might intern with NOAA in summer 2023! Today's presentations include Lia Jacobs '24: Unique opportunity to advance equity and environmental justice in the Southeast; Izzy Viselli '23J: Threatened and Endangered Species Tracking; and Lorelei Ing '24: Estimating performance of early life-stages of marine fishes under variable environments to inform understanding of wild and captive populations. Lunch provided.
CEEDS
12:15 pm to 1:10 pm

Events Off Campus

More than the sum of their parts? Interactions of invasive species other environmental change
November 9, 2022
International concern about the consequences of human-induced global environmental changes has prompted a renewed focus on reducing ecological effects of biological invasions, climate change, and nutrient pollution. Professor Jenica Allen, Department of Environmental Conservation, UMass Amherst (and Smith alum!) will discuss her research to assess the relative magnitude of invasion plus another environmental change on native organisms relative to invasion or environmental change effects alone. More information and a link to the talk is below:
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Virtual webinar
4:00 pm

Events at Smith

Clothing Swap!!
November 12, 2022
The Eco Reps are hosting a clothing swap! Drop clothing in your house free bin or the OSE office (CC 106) before Wednesday Nov. 9th to donate. On the day of, come browse for clothes--all is free!
CC Carroll Room
10:00 am to 6:00 pm

The Learning Garden
November 12, 2022
Join our plant-loving community! Come help us kick off the Learning Garden, which is a student-led space hosted by the Botanic Garden and is located between Northrop and Lamont. We're focused on learning about and growing plants! Come decorate our sign at the Design Thinking Initiative. RSVP at the link below
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Design Thinking Initiative
11:00 am to 12:00 pm

Wind Energy Lunch Learn In
November 14, 2022
Renewable and sustainable energy is key to combating climate change, but information on how it works and legislation surrounding it is often highly technical and hard to understand. Designed by a student for students to give us the tools we need to support environmentally conscious energy change. Lunch provided.
CEEDS
12:15 pm to 1:10 pm

ES&P Honors info session
November 14, 2022
Join Honors Director Andrew Berke to learn more about how to begin thinking about taking a deeper dive into an ES&P-related topic thorough research. It’s never too soon to start thinking about this process! Newly declared major? We want you there, too! We'll have tea and tasty treats for everyone.
CEEDS
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Geothermal Project Tour
November 17, 2022
Have you been wondering what that construction going on outside is? Have you ever been inside a Smith building in the summer and wondered when we'll install AC? Have you ever wanted to know what the college is doing to combat climate change? Come find out the answers to these questions and more on one of our student-run Geothermal Project Tours! Rain date is 11/18 at the same time. Open to all in the Smith community.
Meet at the Elm St entrance to the Campus Center
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm

For faculty: CEEDS Curricular Enhancement Grant Open House
November 17, 2022
Have an idea for a new class or a modification of an existing class that touches on an environmental or sustainability theme? We invite you to come for a drink and some tasty food and learn more about how the Center for the Environment can support you in developing and carrying out your ideas with a curricular enhancement grant. All Smith faculty welcome.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
4:30 pm

Events at Smith

Public Seating Design Charette
November 18, 2022
November 19, 2022
Join Emma Merchant in a discussion and brainstorm session about public seating on Smith campus. Last year she noticed a lack of seating options on campus, and as a chronically ill student with mobility issues, this makes it really hard for her to enjoy and move around campus. She is hoping to address this issue through a special studies on designing public seating on Smith Campus with a feminist/disability justice/codesign focus! She would like to gather feedback and ideas from students, staff, faculty, and disabled individuals before moving towards her design, production, and campus-wide feedback process. Pizza lunch provided for everyone to share as we brainstorm together! If you can’t attend either session for any reason but have ideas or just want to chat please email her at emerchant @smith.edu! RSVP at the link below:
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Capen Annex
12:15 pm to 1:15 pm