Watch these highlights as the Smith Pioneers advance to the Division III Final Four for the first time in program history, with a 63–46 victory over Trinity College in the NCAA Division III Tournament Quarterfinals. Up next: Smith will battle Transylvania in the NCAA Semifinals on Saturday, March 18, in Hartford, Connecticut, at 7:30 p.m.
Smith recently donated $250,000 to Cooley Dickinson in Northampton to support the $19.76 million expansion and renovation of the hospital’s emergency department. Work is scheduled to begin this spring.
Read about a longitudinal study started in 2003 that followed 700 engineering students across four schools—MIT, UMass, Olin College, and Smith—to address why so many women who study engineering leave the field.
Cheryl Coward ’91 received the 2023 WBCA Mel Greenberg Media Award from the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association. Coward is founder and editor-in-chief of the basketball website Hoopfeed.com.
Elisabeth Armstrong, Smith professor of the study of women & gender, writes this article about decolonization and International Women’s Day—a day devoted to celebrating the global achievements of women.
Flutist and tenor saxophonist Carol Sudhalter ’64—the first graduate of Smith to become a jazz musician—will celebrate turning 80 by leading a quintet of octogenarians at Flushing Town Hall in Queens, New York, on March 24.
Read about the late Bernadette Carey Smith ’61, a journalist in the 1960s who was one of the first Black reporters for The New York Times and TheWashington Post. She was later president of her own advertising and public relations firm in Chicago.
The woman known as the “mother of women’s basketball” was Senda Berenson, the director of physical education at Smith in the 1890s. Berenson refereed the first official game of women’s basketball in 1893 and her papers are housed in the Smith College Archives.
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