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Kwame Anthony Appiah to Speak on Campus |
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| Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of philosophy and law at New York University, will kick off the 2020 Presidential Colloquium series with a talk on identity on Tuesday, February 4, at 5 p.m., at the Campus Center Carroll Room. Appiah writes “The Ethicist” column for The New York Times Magazine. |
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Smith Business Leaders on Tap for Power Up |
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Alumna to Chair Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
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Menstrual Tracking Apps as Corporate Data Collectors |
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| Anu Aiyengar ’91 is just one of the speakers on tap for Power Up: A Summit for Smith College Women in Business, April 23–24 in New York City. In this SAQ profile, she encourages women to be better at promoting their accomplishments. “Once you speak up, people pay attention,” she says. Register for Power Up today. |
Phoebe Haddon ’72, chancellor of Rutgers University–Camden, has been named chair of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The nine-member board oversees the bank’s direction, performance and formulation of the Fed’s monetary policy. Haddon will lead for a two-year term. |
In her column for the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Carrie Baker, professor of the study of women and gender, writes about the ways menstrual apps are monetizing women’s personal data. Baker contends this data is being used by anti-abortion health officials, including to track the menstrual cycles of migrant girls in government custody. |
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| Wendy Kline ’92: ‘Doctored Image Silences Women’s Voices’ |
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| After The National Archives admitted that it altered a photograph of the 2017 Women’s March, Wendy Kline ’92, a history professor at Purdue University, called the action galling. “Doctoring a commemorative photograph buys right into the notion that it’s okay to silence women’s voices and actions,” Kline said. “It is literally erasing something that was accurately captured on camera. That’s an attempt to erase a powerful message.” |
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| ‘Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem’ |
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| “Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem,” on display at the Smith College Museum of Art through April 12, features close to a century of works by notable artists of African descent, including Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Maren Hassinger, Norman Lewis, Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Lorna Simpson, James VanDerZee and Kehinde Wiley. |
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| Climate Change is a Leaky Boat and Overflowing Bathtub |
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| What does a leaky boat have to do with climate change? Physics professor Nathanael Fortune uses the analogy to bring home his point about the danger of rising carbon dioxide levels. “When it comes to climate, we are all in the same boat,” he says, “and if we seek to avoid a tipping point, then we have to patch the holes.” |
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