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Seeing Safety in Community

Chief Jimi Nealy is on a mission to bolster connections between the campus safety department and students, faculty, and staff

News of Note

People News, May 2025

Read about the latest accomplishments of Smith students, faculty, staff, and alums.

  • News of Note
  • May 30, 2025
A photo of the Botanic Gardens in the summertime

Learn more about how Smith is providing resources and support for Smith's on-campus community related to antisemitism and Islamophobia.

Smith Quarterly

Check out the landing page for the Smith Quarterly, containing current and past issues.

On the Cover, Spring 2025

Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin ’84’s strategy isn’t flashy, but it works: Meet people where they are, listen to their concerns, and get things done. Learn more about how she wins in a divided America.

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Alum News

Dark Web

The Nine, Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg ’87’s sophomore novel, explores the complex relations...

  • Alum News
  • September 10, 2019
Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
Alum News

Good to the Last Drop

Kahawa 1893's founder and CEO Margaret Nyamumbo ’11 grew up on a coffee farm in Kenya and started th...

  • Alum News
  • September 10, 2019
Margaret Nyamumbo
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Literary Underground

Erin Morgenstern ’00 fans have been waiting eight years for the New York Times bestselling author of...

  • Alum News
  • September 10, 2019
Erin Morgenstern
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The Flavor of Fall

Best known for her sweet cider, Carol Berkley Hillman ’49, owner of New Salem Preserves in Franklin ...

  • Alum News
  • September 10, 2019
Truck with apples in the back

Fear

This yearlong Kahn project aims to address the power of fear—to destroy and subvert, but also to cre...

  • September 1, 2019

TranslationS

Translation at its best both bridges and recognizes difference. At a time of intensive globalization...

  • September 1, 2019

Other News & Publications

Smith Quarterly  
The Smith Quarterly was established in 1909 and is published by the Office of College Relations four times a year.

Smith eDigest
The Smith eDigest is sent to all campus e-mail accounts, providing important notices, college news, deadline notifications and other college information.

Notes From Paradise
Distributed weekly by the Office of College Relations, Notes From Paradise is an e-newsletter for alumnae, faculty, staff, students and friends of the college.

Insight
Insight was an online journal chronicling the ideas, intellectual life and creative thinking inherent within the culture of research and the liberal arts at Smith. It was published from 2010 to 2016.

The Sophian
The Sophian is the official, independent student newspaper.

NewsSmith
Published through Spring 2010, NewsSmith was distributed by the Office of College Relations for alumnae, staff, students and friends.

Library Events, Exhibitions & News
Listings of upcoming events at the libraries, current exhibitions, links to online exhibits and to newsletters, including News from the Smith College Libraries, Friends of the Libraries Newsletter and the Sophia Smith Collection’s Imposing Evidence.

Smith College Studies in Social Work
Since 1930, the Smith College Studies in Social Work has published materials of interest to clinical social workers and social work educators.

Meridians
Meridians, a collaborative venture of Smith’s Women’s Studies Program and Wesleyan University, is a new feminist interdisciplinary journal and forum for scholarship and creative work by and about women of color.

Amazonian Literary Review
The Amazonian Literary Review is a journal dedicated to the literary traditions of the countries of the Amazonian Basin.

Botanic Garden News
Published twice each year by the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

Smith Style Guide
Maintained by the Office of College Relations, the Smith Style Guide is a reference for Smith-specific words and phrases.