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Winter 2002 // Volume 16, Number 2 // Northampton, Massachusetts
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Citing a
need to strengthen African universities while transforming the
field of African studies in the United States, the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Smith College a five-year,
$1 million grant to support a Five College residency program
for African scholars in the early stages of their academic careers.
Through the program as many as five junior faculty members each
year from universities across the African continent will take
up residency at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges,
as well as the University of Massachusetts. The residencies,
which will last from four to nine months, are expected to begin
in spring 2003. ............................ At its October 2001 meeting, the Smith board of trustees welcomed four new members: the Rev. William Gipson, university chaplain and special adviser to the president of the University of Pennsylvania; Susan Porth '70, executive vice president and chief financial officer of United Behavioral Health, San Francisco; Phoebe A. Wood '75, executive vice president and chief financial officer, Brown-Forman Corporation, Louisville, Kentucky; and Ammara Yaqub '01, former president of Smith's Student Government Association and now an analyst at Merrill Lynch Investment Banking, New York City. ............................ Smith was named in September to the 2001 annual list of small colleges and universities with the largest number of Peace Corps volunteers. Smith had 17 Peace Corps volunteers serving overseas as of January 2001, ranking sixth among the institutions with fewer than five thousand undergraduate students. ............................ After the fall issue of NewsSmith had gone to press, C-Span notified the college that ongoing coverage of issues related to September 11 would preempt its American Writers series. The segment focusing on the life and times of Betty Friedan '42, which was originally slated to be broadcast live from Smith on December 3, is now tentatively rescheduled to air on June 23, 2002. ............................ With the help of a $68,000 grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a prestigious national foundation dedicated to improving the lives of disadvantaged children and families in the United States, the Smith College School for Social Work and Casey Family Services have embarked on an innovative partnership. (Casey Family Services is the direct service arm of the Annie E. Casey Foundation.) As announced in November 2001, the joint project is expected to both improve the delivery of services to children and families and influence the future direction of social work practice and scholarship. ............................ Smith College and Women in Technology International (WITI) joined forces in October to establish the WITI Invent Center at Smith/ Five Colleges. This resource is designed to enable students, faculty, alumnae and community members to realize their greatest potential through technology. Located in newly renovated facilities in Tilly Hall, the Invent Center is the first of what WITI hopes will be a network of college- and university-based centers to advance women's participation in the technological economy. ............................ The college expects to break ground in March 2002 for its new campus center. Construction on the $15 million, three-story building, which will face Elm Street in the space now occupied by a parking lot near John M. Greene Hall, will be completed in 2003. |
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