For Nyamumbo, Kahawa (Swahili for “coffee”) 1893 is an opportunity for her to give back—not only to her home village and ...

Getting to study in England was life-changing for Vicki Johnson ’87—and now her daughter, Sula Johnson ’26, is getting the ...

The Egyptians were among the first to use cosmetics and perfumes. As early as 10,000 BCE, both men and women used scented oils and ointments to clean and soften the skin (and to mask body odor), and ...

I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what ...

Just a few years out of college, Iris González ’11 wrote a book about her journey as a first-generation student in STEM. The ...

The Smith community comes together for events throughout the year. From the first Rally Day in 1876, to Julia Child Day and the Sherrerd Teaching Prizes, begun in 2004, the college's annual events ...

While frescoes did not reach their height of popularity until the High Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the art was practiced long before. The first frescoes were ...

College historians aren’t sure when this special residential custom began, but some pianos in the campus “fleet” are close to ...

The Smith eDigest is sent to all campus e-mail accounts on Tuesday and Thursday each week during the academic year, and on Tuesday during the summer, providing important notices, college news, links ...

When Valentina Geri, lecturer in Italian studies, assigned Jhumpa Lahiri’s memoir, In Other Words, to the students enrolled ...

Used in classical Athens, the Chelys-Lyra is a lyre consisting of a tortoise-shell sound compartment with skin stretched over the opening. Two bars with a crossbar attached extend from the shell and ...