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  • July 2018:  Time to Explore:  Summer Research at Smith
  • April 2018:  Students explore natural properties of the Mill River on a recent walking tour with Professor of Engineering Andrew Guswa
  • December 2017:  A New Kind of Mapping:  Professor Introduces Students to GIS
  • December 2017: Starting Early:  Student Research Leads to Success
  • December 2017: Witness to Extinction:  With the world losing species at an alarming rate, author Mary Ellen Hannibal ’81 wants to inspire citizen scientist to record their observations of flora and fauna-before they’re gone forever.
  • November 2017:  Leading the Sciences:  Erin O’Shea ’88, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a Smith honorary degree recipient, will discuss “Timekeeping with a Three-Protein Circadian Clock” on Monday, November 27, 2017
  • November 2017:  Calculus Training Groups Help Students Persist in STEM
  • November 2017:  Alumna Aspires to be Among First Settlers on Mars
  • October 2017:  A Built-It-Herself Race Car Takes on The Track – A Smith student will test her 1999 Miata in this weekend’s Grassroots Motorsports Challenge
  • October 2017:  A Milestone Moment 
  • October 2017:  Suzan Edwards, L. Clarke Seelye Professor of Astronomy, talks to the BBC about stargazing on Mauna Kea in Hawaii
  • September 2017: A More Sustainable Smith
  • September 2017:  MassMutual data scientist help community make better decisions through modern analytics
  • September 2017:  Visualize This:  R. Jordan Crouser ’08 Shows Students How Data Analytics and Visualization can Apply to Any Discipline
  • August 2017:  The Big Eclipse
  • August 2017:  Build and Compete:  Gracie Hackenberg ’18 Leads a Smith Race Car Team
  • August 2017:  Seeing the Art in Science:  Anja Nordstrom ’18’s Zebrafish Portfolio
  • August 2017:  SmithScape:  New App Helps Users Find Study Spaces on Campus
  • July 2017:  Watching the ‘Astronomical Super Bowl’
  • June 2017:  New York Times:  On Campus, Failure Is on the Syllabus
  • June 2017:  Lisa Evans ’82 of Easthampton wins $34K on ‘Jeopardy”
  • June 2017:  Boston Globe:  Smith Professor Captures Rare Pictures of Ultra-bright Galaxies
  • June 2017:  Mary Ellen Hannibal ’81:  Can Citizen Scientists Save Us?
  • June 2017:  Summer Construction Projects at Smith
  • May 2017:  Collaborating on a Cure
  • May 2017:  The Nature of Inquiry:  Student Research at Smith
  • May 2017:  Using Drones in Wildlife Conservation
  • May 2017:  No Jargon Spoken Here:  Communicating About Science
  • April 2017:  Smith Teams Succeed at Five College DataFest
  • April 2017:  ‘Weathering Heights’: Arts Afield Launches at MacLeish Field Station
  • April 2017:  Morgan Schwartz ’18 Earns Goldwater Scholarship
  • April 2017:  ‘Change-Your-Life’ Teaching:  Three Faculty Members Awarded Sherred Prize
  • March 2017:  New Plan Supports Climate Action in All Aspects of Campus Life
  • March 2017:  Astronomy Professor James Lowenthan organized and moderated a panel on what geoengineering to reduce the impact of climate change could mean for astronomers.
  • March 2017:  ‘Fields of Flowers’:  Four Reasons to Visit the Spring Bulb Show
  • February 2017:  Gov. Charlie Baker announces $39M for life sciences education at colleges, high schools
  • February 2017:  Research Engineer Victoria Schein ’16 Drives Innovation at Ford
  • January 2017:  Fun With Drones:  Studens Learn Basics of Remote-Controlled Flight
  • January 2017:  Chemist Elizabeth Nolan ’01 Researches New Ways to Treat Infectious Diseases
  • January 2017:  Greenwich Time:  Smith Senior is bringing math to Connecticut middle school students.
  • January 2017:  Engineer Lydia Bussiere:  Focused on Contributing to a Better, Healthier World
  • December 2016:  ‘Thinking Differently’:  Real-World Research in Intro Chemistry Labs
  • November 2016:  Creative Teamwork:  Smithies Design ‘Parkets’ for Downtown Northampton
  • November 2016: President McCartney on what Smith and women’s colleges are doing to address the STEM gender gap
  • November 2016:  Suzan Edwards explores the starms forming deep within molecular clouds in the galaxy
  • November 2016:  New in ‘Insight’:  Exploring the Female Perspective on Mammalian Reproduction
  • November 2016:  The Incredible True Story of Paradise Pond
  • November 2016:  Seven Smithies earn awards at the Hack Holyoke computer programming competition.nsfgrfpimage-e1414608581353
  • October 2016:  Student’s ‘Shut the Sash’ Campaign Aims to Save Energy, Boost Safety in Smith Labs
  • October 2016: Hello Hydorgen Fuel Cells, Goodbye Batteries
  • September 2016:  Summer in the Lab
  • August 2016:  Trees that Teach:  Taz Mueller ’18 Creates Digital Portal About Campus Trees
  • August 2016:  Group Dynamics:  Alumna Brings 10 Smithies to NASA Center for Praxis Internships
  • July 2016: Prof. Kate Queeney – Someone Who Combats Sexual Harrassment: Citizen, Not “Vigilante”
  • July 2016: “Inclusive Excellence”: STEM Learning Successes
  • July 2016: People News. Congrats to all grads who are Fulbright Fellows!
  • June 2016: People News. Five faculty elected to Sigma Xi.
  • June 2016: For 17 years, Smith students have participated in the Coral Reef Ed-Ventures environmental education program in Belize. Read their posts from the field.
  • June 2016: Natural Flow’: Students Test New Plan for Moving Sediment Out of Paradise Pond
  • June 2016: 1st gen: Stories of begin the first in the family to finish college
  • June 2016: Shooting Laser Beams on Mars: Nina Lanza ’01, Astronomy major and staff scientist at Los Alamos Labs
  • May 2016: When the Perfect is the Enemy of the Good
  • May 2016: Prof. Williams Awarded Prestigious NSF CAREER Award for Research on Atomic Beryllium
  • May 2016: Student and Faculty Member’s Study of Rare Frog Behavior Is Cover of National Journal
  • May 2016: Nation’s Chief Technology Officer Will Give Commencement Address
  • May 2016: Smithies Teach Science to High School Students
  • April 2016: People News
  • April 2016: Smith Engineering Students Explore the Lego Serious Play Method
  • April 2016: Smith Helps Produce New Guide For Tackling Invasive Plants
  • April 2016: A True Story, As Told by Ancient Rocks
  • March 2016: Sharing STEM Skills: Students Create Club for Girls Who Code
  • March 2016: A Mysterious Approach to Teaching Engineering
  • March 2016: Psychology of Political Activism: Smith’s MOOC Launches This Week
  • Hold the Date!: Evelynn Hammonds visit to Smith April 14th
  • February 2016: Students in Interterm Class Propose Targets for New MS Drugs
  • January 2016: Zebrafish: The Rising Stars of Research at Smith
  • January 2016: A Visual History of Plants: Plant Evolution Mural Installed in the Plant House
  • December 2015: Williams Lab Plays Part in Fighting Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • November 2015: People News: Bechtel Environmental Classroom featured in 2015 Sustainable Campus Index; Benita Jackson, Psychology, awarded a grant for “Health Psychology for the 21st Century” project
  • November 2015: Mysterious Workings of the Teenage Mind: Neuroscientist Frances Jensen ’78 explains the impulsive, perplexing and powerful adolescent brain
  • November 2015: Research on AEMES Program presented at AAC&U Crossing Boundaries: Transforming STEM Education Meeting, Seattle
  • November 2015: Fall Chrysanthemum Show Features Student Ikebana Display
  • November 2015: Sharing a Passion for STEM: Smithies Lead ‘Geek Is Glam’ Workshops
  • October 2015: New Window Film Prevents Bird Collisions At McConnell Hall
  • September 2015: What We Did This Summer: Smithies Lead in Scientific Research
  • August 2015: Clues in Chromosomes: Deborah Driscoll ‘ 77 Works the Front Lines of Genetics Research
  • August 2015: I Call Myself a Scientist: Science Major Alumnae Share Experiences
  • August 2015: Stories from the MacLeish Field Station
  • July 2015: 15 Years of Engineering at Smith
  • July 2015: The Marshmallow Test
  • July 2015: Smith Participates in First White House Council on Women and Girls in STEM Education
  • June 2015: Research on AEMES Program Presented at HHMI Studio Workshop
  • June 2015: Assessment of Smith College SURF Program Discussed at CUR Conference
  • May 2015: Two Goldwater Scholars in 2015
  • May 2015: Six NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Awards for Smithies in 2015
  • November 2014: Humphreys Prize Winner Ruth Haas Reflects on Mentoring Women in Mathematics
  • November 2014: Lights, Camera, Science! Sara Pruss Shares Insights on National Geographic TV
  • November 2014: $100,000 Hearst Foundation Grant for AEMES Programs
  • November 2014: The Joy of Science: A Memorial Symposium Honors Physics Professor Piotr Decowski
  • October 2014: Smith Salutes Piotr Decowski, Late Physics Professor’s Genius for Teaching (pdf)
  • October 2014: “Why Aren’t More Women in Science?” She Is a Scientist Lecture by Kathy Aidala (Video Link)
  • October 2014: Four Faculty Members Awarded NSF and NIH Grants
  • October 2014: Code Word: Girls, Nonprofit founder creates program to launch girls of color into lucrative, world-transforming tech careers
  • October 2014: ‘She Is a Scientist’ Series Asks Why Women Are Still Scarce in STEM
  • September 2014: Beery’s Research Highlights Male Bias in Animal Studies
  • May 2014: Five Smithies Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

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