A government major who’s minoring in East Asian studies, Teo has worked with Democrat Sen. Ed Markey as well as the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. During her most recent internship with the U.S. Supreme Court, Teo says she realized the “value of public service” and was able to employ skills she learned at Smith.

Inspired by the 2021 series of the same name, Netflix’s new reality competition pits 456 individuals against one another in pursuit of a $4.56 million prize. Known simply as player 278 on “The Challenge,” Tolbert is considered one of the show’s most enduring contestants.

As a member of a team featuring great minds from 14 academic institutions around the country, professor and geoscientist Jack Loveless is furthering the efforts of the Cascadia Region Earthquake Center, a newly established research facility studying Pacific Northwest earthquakes.

A native New Englander who’s now living in the Bluegrass State, Ward (aka Jessica Bird Blakemore) shares how she long ago traded a career in hospital administration for that of a bestselling romance novelist. To date, Ward has penned 60-plus books.

A founding partner of the East Coast agency Precision Strategies, Cutter will now facilitate conversations about health care between Equality Health and industry stakeholders. “I couldn't be more excited to join the team,” she said in a press release.

Published in 2022, DeWitt’s The English Understand Wool is being praised by NPR as “both a psychological thriller and a satirical critique of the publishing industry.” In this three-minute program, DeWitt shares what inspired the novella and admits surprise over its big success.

Throughout December, the Smith Fund is challenging the Smith community to raise 3,100 donations in 31 days for scholarship aid. All donations, no matter the size, will go directly toward keeping a Smith education accessible and affordable. Thank you for your support.

Hitchen, the child of veteran Gregory Hitchen, was one of 187 students to be awarded funds by the Coast Guard Foundation in 2023. “These are talented, high-achieving students who are already serving their communities the way their family members do,” the foundation told silive.com.

Showcasing multi-panel photographs, prints, and collages made between the 17th and 21st centuries, this collection boasts nearly 100 pieces from such artists as Maggie Puckett, Dawoud Bey, and others. See the exhibit now through Jan. 7, 2024, at the Smith College Museum of Art.

A new addition to Vassar College’s anthropology department, Sajadian is a researcher-humanitarian who’s spent extensive time overseas aiding refugees in the Middle East, becoming fluent in Arabic in the process. “I’m very happy to be here,” she told the college’s student newspaper.

After studying religion at Smith and later divinity at Union Theological Seminary, Yeo gained notoriety in Wisconsin for helping women—largely through her active involvement in a Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion chapter—access safe abortions during the 1970s.

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