On April 30 at 7 p.m. EST, current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, above, will read at John M. Greene Hall, followed by a conversation with Professor Matt Donovan. A social activist who loves poetry, Dariana Guerrero ’17 plans to attend—and she’s invited along middle schoolers from her hometown of Lawrence, Massachusetts. “Poetry was an avenue that gave me space and a sense of liberation,” says Guerrero, who studied literature at Smith.

Sworn into office on April 1, Mulvaney-Stanak is also the first openly queer person to be elected mayor of the Queen City. According to VTDigger, some of her immediate goals include rebuilding the police department and addressing staffing concerns for frontline workers.

Schneider’s painting of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.—the result of more than 200 hours of work—was unveiled on April 4. “I had one photo and a paragraph about him to work from. I had to call upon my every skill,” the longtime Smith faculty member says of the experience.

Sponsored by the Conway Center, the inaugural event gave prizes to students who presented innovative solutions. One winner was a women-focused boxing equipment project by Abigail Fletcher ’24, Chaira Harder ’25, Sirohi Kumar ’26, Sarah Mian ’26, and Lala Rukh ’25.

Established in 2002 to recognize outstanding teaching, the annual prize will go this year to Jennifer Beichman, Alicia Grubb, and Jina Kim. Each winner will be formally recognized during a ceremony on Oct. 24 at the Julia McWilliams Child ’34 Campus Center.

The first of a four-part nonfiction series, Hakim’s Discovering Life’s Story: Biology’s Beginnings is aimed at younger readers but will intrigue those of any age, writes Rachael Hanley Hagerstrom ’02. Learn more about the book in Smithies Create.

During an episode of North Carolina Public Radio’s Embodied program, Ziehl discusses discovering “gender euphoria” in the movement of pole dancing. They also chronicle this journey on their Medium page, saying they pole danced long before knowing they were “genderqueer in the slightest.”

The Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) at NC State University announced it will provide funding to 22 collaborators, including Crouser, to conduct research on a variety of initiatives. Learn more about the 2024 research and collaborators in this article.

In this article for AARP, Hill celebrates her late mother’s contributions on the homefront during the Second World War. “Since my mother kept her World War II service hidden,  I only recently discovered her contribution through genealogy research,” Hill says.

According to the firm, Radecki brings experience in the health care and higher education sectors to the role. Paul Braden, Norton Rose Fulbright’s U.S. head of public finance, says in a statement that Radecki will be a valuable addition to the team.

Recuber’s The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality offers a look at death and dying online. In reviewing the book, Nature says it’s a valuable work that’s sure to be appreciated by “readers of all stripes.”

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