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After 50 years of fighting for justice, Loretta J. Ross—associate professor of the study of women and gender at Smith—has accomplished a lot. In this Washington Post article, she talks about what led her to activism, the fall of Roe v. Wade and the work she has left to do.

In her report Centering Equity in Climate Resilience Planning and Action, published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), Clara Fang ’05 outlines best practices for addressing equity when building climate resilience—the ability to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to hazardous events related to climate.

Donna Hayward ’91, MAT ’93, was recently named the 2023 National Principal of the Year. In this interview with Education Week, she shares a few lessons that helped propel her, and her school, to success. Hayward is the principal of Haddam-Killingworth High School in Connecticut.

Anna McNeary ’12, artist and adjunct instructor at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, is profiled in this GoLocalProv article. Of why she uses text in her work, she explains, “I often use language as a visual motif that can represent ambivalent, vulnerable, or overpowering emotional experience.”

Kathleen Marshall ’85, a 2009 Smith medalist and three-time Tony Award winner, is directing Obsessed, a new musical about American songwriter Diane Warren. Marshall will also direct and choreograph a musical about the life and career of the late Frank Sinatra.

Read about the late Ng'endo Mwangi ’61—the first African woman to attend Smith. She went on to attend the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and then returned home to Kenya to become the country’s first woman physician. The Mwangi Cultural Center at Smith was named in her honor.

The Patty Friedmann Writing Competition was recently established by One Book One New Orleans in honor of fiction writer Patty Friedmann ’68, perhaps best known for her prize-winning novel Secondhand Smoke. The annual competition will celebrate the work of emerging artists.

This episode of the podcast The Slave Is Gone is a rebroadcast of Smith’s recent presidential colloquium in which Smith President Kathleen McCartney, poet Jericho Brown (co-host of the podcast) and Alena Smith (creator of the AppleTV+ show Dickinson) discuss the life of poet Emily Dickinson.

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Selected items from the news media featuring Smith College people and programs

Prof. Michael Gorra reviews Cormac McCarthy’s latest two novels

Prof. Loretta Ross Named to List of Most Influential Black Americans

Lyman Plant House one of season’s destinations

Piper Corey ’25 and other students respond to Dobbs decision

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