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| Northampton Center for the Arts presents ‘Our Town’ |
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DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE 11/28/2012 |
| Smith alumna Toby Bercovici ’06 is directing the community production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Our Town,” which will be the last program performed at the Northampton Center for the Arts.
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| The one to watch, just to the left of the star |
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NEW YORK TIMES 11/14/2012 |
| The most memorable scene stealer in this fall’s new series “The Neighbors” is Smith alumna Toks Olagundoye ’97. Olagundoye “stands out for being charmingly game for just about anything. She’s showed off a flair for accents, pratfalls and mimicry, at times simultaneously.”
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| Benson Taylor to give inaugural Baine Lecture |
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UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI NEWS 11/20/2012 |
| Smith alumna Melanie Benson Taylor ’98, associate professor of native American studies at Dartmouth College, helped inaugurate a new scholarly field known as the “Native South.” Her 2012 book “Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause,” holds the distinction of being the first full-length study of native Southern literature.
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| STCC and Smith awarded $3 million grant to promote engineering |
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THE REPUBLICAN 11/28/2012 |
| Smith and the Springfield Technical Community College received a five-year $3 million grant to get children interested in engineering. “What we want is for students to learn about engineering through the use of story,” said Glenn Ellis, Smith professor of engineering and one of the project leaders.
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| ‘Portrait of a Novel’ looks at Henry James and the bridge to modernism |
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WASHINGTON POST 11/29/2012 |
In “Portrait of a Novel,” Smith professor Michael Gorra devotes “more than 300 intelligent pages to everything Henry James left unsaid” in the book “Portrait of a Lady.”
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| New help for hoarders |
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NEW YORK TIMES 11/29/2012 |
| Researchers are not sure if hoarding intensifies with age, but the problems it creates certainly do. “The older you get, the more stuff you’ve been able to accumulate,” said Randy Frost, Smith professor and co-author of the book “Stuff.” “And older people are less physically able to deal with it.”
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| NHL deal may be near, but not lasting |
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THE DETROIT NEWS 11/29/2012 |
The problem that hangs over the National Hockey League is mismanagement, according to Andrew Zimbalist, Smith professor and sports economist. “As long as it is mismanaged, a good chunk of teams are going to be losing money.”
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See also: After Barclays move, Forbes' boosts Islanders' valuation |
| NEWSDAY 11/28/2012 |
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| ‘Ideas worth spreading’ coming to L-S |
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SUDBURY TOWN CRIER 11/29/2012 |
Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, a professor emerita of anthropology at Smith and the founder of the Sachamama Center, a non-profit organization in the Peruvian High Amazon that encourages the regeneration of local ecology and culture, is among the speakers at an upcoming TED conference.
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| Why the Smith College Museum of Art is a work of art |
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ARTS JOURNAL 11/29/2012 |
| In this review of the Smith College Museum of Art, the writer notes “the collection is fine — among college museums, it’s really quite good. But I came away with good feelings about it for a different reason: It’s the first museum I know that pushed the idea of art to… bathrooms designed by artists, and I’ve never seen that before.”
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| Colleges that don’t require SAT or ACT: New survey |
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WASHINGTON POST 11/28/2012 |
| Smith is listed among the top national liberal arts colleges that no longer require applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores.
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See also: SAT, ACT no longer required by 800 U.S. schools |
| HUFFINGTON POST 11/28/2012 |
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