Stay Connected to Smith
The Office of Alumnae Relations and Development welcomes you to “Stay Connected to Smith,” where you can explore the vibrant tapestry of Smith’s academic, cultural, and social initiatives. Here, you’ll find a wealth of engaging content, from thought-provoking lectures to insightful articles and impactful student projects, all to keep you connected, informed, and inspired.
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- E. Ahmet Tonak, a research affiliate in environmental science and policy, is the co-author of In the Tracks of Marx’s Capital: Debates in Marxian Political Economy and Lessons for 21st Century Capitalism published by Palgrave Macmillan, a new critical rereading of Karl Marx’s most important work on economics.
- Malcom Keating, associate professor of philosophy, is the author of Reason in an Uncertain World: Nyãya Philosophers on Argumentation and Living Well published by Oxford University Press.
- Maren Buck, associate professor of chemistry, is the recipient of the prestigious Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation for her research, “New Strategies for the Preparation of Chemically-Fueled Hydrogel Actuators.”
- Carrie Baker, Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Chair of American Studies and Professor of the Study of Women and Gender, is the author of “Misogynist Manifesto,” a three-part series of articles about Project 25 published in Ms. magazine.
- In the exhibit Fatal Flora: Poisonous Revenge Narratives, Susan Montomgery, who teaches drawing at Smith, asks how in the hands of knowledgeable women, the natural world can be transformed from medicinal to murderous in a pinch, dash or splash of ingredients. Fatal Flora is on view through January 2025.
- This fall, the New York Historical Society presents Real clothes, real lives: 200 years of what women wore, the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection.
- Check out Smith Executive Education to enroll in women’s leadership programs.
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- Sip, sip, hooray! First introduced during the inauguration of President Sarah Willie-LeBreton, Smith’s two custom tea blends are available for sale.
- Check out the winners of the Global Encounters Photo Contest.
- Download a beautiful Smith photo for your Zoom background.
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- A celebrated casting director, Juliet Taylor ’67 will receive an honorary Academy Award at the 2024 Governors Awards. Academy President Janet Yang says Taylor’s “profound love of cinema and indelible contribution to our art form” make her worthy of the award.
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England announced Nicole Clegg ’92 as CEO & President.
- For one of his Drawn to MoMA comics, illustrator Patrick Keck paid tribute to animator-artist Sally Cruikshank ’71. According to a statement, he was especially inspired by a still from one of Cruikshank’s films, which he found in the Museum of Modern Art’s archives.
- ‘Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me!’, NPR’s weekly quiz program, recently put singer-songwriter Kara Jackson ’23 in the hot seat, asking her questions about fun parties—in the spirit of her official debut single being called “No Fun/Party.”
- Designed to strengthen research surrounding policy-related issues affecting Gulf Coast communities, the Gulf Research Program named Anastasia Konefal ’17 as a 2024 Science Policy Fellow. Konefal will be working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration RESTORE Science Program.
- Thelma Golden ’87, director and chief curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Tigress Osborn ’96, fat rights advocate and chair of the board of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, and are among TIME Magazine’s most influential people of 2024.
