Read about the 17-foot bronze sculpture at the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tennessee, that was recently named for Senda Berenson—a physical education teacher at Smith who adapted the game for women back in 1892.

Takondwa Priscilla Semphere ’18 was recently awarded the 2023 Knight-Hennessy Scholarship from Stanford University, where she is pursuing a master’s degree in learning design and technology.

Alison Overseth ’80, chair of the Smith College Board of Trustees and chief executive officer of PASE, will be honored with the 2023 Frederick Douglass Award at the New York Urban League Gala in June.

On May 5, President Kathleen McCartney announced the release of the Smith 2035 Vision Statement, which “outlines a desired future state of the college so that [our] community can imagine what success might look like.”

Smith recently hosted acclaimed poet Hanif Abdurraqib. The event, sponsored by the Poetry Center, was attended by over 250 students from Northampton, Amherst, Easthampton, and Granby high schools.

Ivy Day festivities begin at 9:15 a.m. EDT on Saturday, May 20. You can watch the webcast here. Commencement begins at 10 a.m. EDT on Sunday, May 21, and will be livestreamed via Facebook and webcast online.

Check out this review of The Long March Home co-authored by Tosca Lee ’92. Inspired by true events, the book is set in the Philippines during World War II and tells the story of three friends from Alabama who vow to make it back home together.

On May 26, the Smith Alum Book Club will begin reading The Mountains Sing, the debut novel from celebrated Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai. Readers will also have a chance to meet Quế Mai at a virtual event this summer.

Thelma Golden ’87 was selected to be a member of the International Jury of the Biennale Architettura 2023, which will be held May 20 through November 26. The title and theme of the international architecture exhibition is The Laboratory of the Future.

In this article, Ellie Rusling ’90, CEO and co-founder of MicroEra Power, talks about the technology being developed by her company to address climate change by reducing building carbon emissions. “There is no Planet B,” says Rusling.

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