As her time at Smith comes to an end, President Kathleen McCartney expresses her profound thanks to the Smith community for making the past decade so meaningful and memorable. “I am grateful to the Smith community—students, staff, faculty, and alums—for supporting me at every turn,” McCartney says.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin ’84 is featured in this NPR story about the bill that she and Sen. Patty Murray introduced called the Reproductive Health Care Training Act, which helps fund abortion care training for medical students.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ’02 is directing a new video series for Gucci CHIME that features Annie Lennox, Mona Sinha ’88, Serena Williams, and others discussing what equality means to them.

In this interview, Durreen Shahnaz ’89, founder of Impact Investment Exchange and author of The Defiant Optimist, talks about her childhood, being a woman of color on Wall Street, and how to create an inclusive financial market.

NASA will award Smith and six other women’s institutions over $5 million to fund development of programs that encourage women to study and work in the largely-male fields of science, technology, engineering, and math.

Enjoy this fun video of alums, family, and friends sharing their thoughts and their favorite Smith College memories in the Neilson Learning Commons’ memory booth during this year’s two Reunion weekends.

In this interview with Desirée Lalbeharie ’90, M.E.D. ’91—who came to Smith on a full scholarship during apartheid in the 1980s—she shares her story about growing up in South Africa, what it was like to come to Smith, and why she stayed in the area.

Read this article about Kate Dilligan ’95, a cancer survivor and founder and chief executive of Cooler Heads—an 11-employee startup that provides a transportable scalp-cooling system to help prevent hair loss during cancer treatment.

Infinera CFO Nancy Erba ’88 talks about the value of networking for women in the workplace. A connection led to a job at Infinera, Erba says. “I think this happens a lot with men, and I am here to show people that it can happen with women too.”

Kelsey Conrad, a lecturer in exercise and sport studies at Smith, is a co-first author on a new study of the role a particular metabolite plays in the development of an aneurysm in the part of the aorta that runs through the abdomen.

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