Valerie King Saunders ’90 is featured in the Forbes.com article, “Why Women’s Colleges Are Still Relevant.” She notes, “Women’s colleges tend to attract a very competitive and driven student base, and that's the group you are surrounding yourself with during these critical years.”

In a Baltimore Sun article Phoebe Haddon ’72, recently appointed dean of the University of Maryland Law School and one of the few black women in the nation to lead a law school, says women bring new dimensions to thinking about the law because they ask different questions.

Wrangler Nora Hawkins ’04 can trace her family history back six generations in northeastern Oregon, and is a fourth-generation outfitter. She is featured in an article about the rugged Wallow Mountain country.

Read an interview with Julienne La Fleur ’90, whose book, Lessons from Oz, takes the story of The Wizard of Oz and parlays it into lessons on how to live life.

Marjorie Senechal, Louise Wolff Kahn Professor Emerita in the math department, is writing a book about Dorothy Wrinch, who taught in the physics department at Smith from 1942 until the 1960s. Professor Senechal is interested in first-person and anecdotal recollections. Contact her at senechal@smith.edu.