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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.
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 21^st 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