Happy Mountain Day!

Today is Mountain Day! Classes and academic appointments scheduled before 7 p.m. are canceled. Evening classes, films, lectures, and other events will be held as planned. Go play, Smithies!

The bells are ringing—today is Mountain Day!

About the Tradition

Show Your Smith Spirit

Want everyone you see today to know it’s Mountain Day? Students, faculty, and staff: head over to Chapin lawn this morning from 8 to 10 a.m. to snag a free 2025 Mountain Day T-shirt commemorating 150 years of Smith magic. Don’t forget to enjoy some apple cider and donuts while you’re there!

Reasons to Celebrate Smith

Her beef bourguignon is still on the menu.

During her time at Smith, culinary icon Julia McWilliams Child ’34 played basketball (she was 6 feet, 2 inches tall), served on the student council, joined the Dramatics Association, and chaired the refreshment committee for her senior prom. In 1948, she moved to Paris with her husband—and the rest is history. Her PBS show, The French Chef, made her a star, and her influence continues at Smith, where the campus center is named for her and where Julia Child Day is celebrated each November with recipes from her cookbooks. Bon appétit!

Smith, in the Moment

Stay current with all things Smith. Learn about upcoming events and peruse the news on Smith Today.

News of Note

Boosting Research and Discovery

Pres. Willie-LeBreton joins a new initiative aimed at strengthening Massachusetts’ research economy.

  • News of Note
  • September 29, 2025
News of Note

Smith Welcomes New Faculty

A dozen new professors will begin teaching at Smith this year in a range of academic disciplines.

  • News of Note
  • September 24, 2025
Distant shot of the Lanning Fountain

A Culture of Curiosity

Maneeta Bhandari ’27

Engineering major; Film & Media Studies minor

“I have been a very STEM focused my whole life. With courses like first-year seminars at Smith, I have gotten an opportunity to study the liberal arts from a closer distance.”

About the Open Curriculum

Kristin Hughes

Director of Athletics

“It’s a disservice to women athletes to expect anything but the best for themselves. We talk about winning. We talk about why it’s important. We talk about why they need to own what they’re good at.”

Explore Athletics at Smith

Ginetta E.B. Candelario ’90

Professor of Sociology and of Latin American & Latino/a Studies

“Because of what I learned and now teach at Smith, I am more committed than ever to Sophia Smith’s vision of ‘reforming the evils of society’ through our work ‘as teachers, as writers, as mothers, as members of society.’”

How She Found Smith

J. Courtney Sullivan ’03

Novelist

“I am so thankful that my 18-year-old self unwittingly chose an education that has lived on inside me and continues to teach me things a quarter century after the fact.”

See How Smith Shaped Her