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“Even though I’m focusing
                                               my philanthropy on
                                               supporting the sciences
                                               at Smith, I’m really
                                               supporting the institution
                                               as it exists today: a strong
                                               liberal arts institution, a
                                               strong science institution
 WE’RE                                         and a single-sex

                                               institution. Those three
                                               things matter to me.”
 EXPANDING   38 PERCENT OF SMITH               –SUSAN MAY MOLINEAUX ’75



         STUDENTS MAJOR
   OUR REACH   IN THE NATURAL                   During the 2015–16 academic
         SCIENCES. NATIONALLY,

         WOMEN ACCOUNT FOR
 THROUGH  ONLY 19 PERCENT OF                   MORE THAN
                                                year alone, Smith received
         DEGREES CONFERRED

         IN THOSE SAME
   SCHOLARLY  DISCIPLINES.                     $7 MILLION
                                               TO SUPPORT

                                               FACULTY RESEARCH
     WORK.  In 2015-16, Smith ranked           AND CURRICULAR

        at the top of the Oberlin
        Group’s 86 selective liberal
        arts colleges in terms of              PROGRAMMING
        funding from the National              AND INITIATIVES.
        Science Foundation, the
        National Endowment for the
        Humanities, and the National
        Endowment for the Arts.







        Over the past dozen years,
        Smith has won more Fulbright
        Fellowships than any other

        liberal arts college in the
        country, including 130 winners
        from 2009 to 2016.
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