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Each year, Smith offers some of its finest incoming first-year students one of the best perks possible: a paid research position with a Smith professor—an unique opportunity not offered to undergraduates at most liberal arts colleges.
 Through the Student Research in Departments Program (STRIDE), high-achieving students during their first two years are teamed up with Smith faculty as paid research assistants in a wide variety of research areas, from the ecology of coral reefs to the study of plays written under political censorship. In the past two years, the program has matched 96 students with professors representing more than 30 academic areas.
One of the program’s most valuable aspects is the experience students have of real, extended academic learning. STRIDE students and faculty often present results of their joint research at academic conferences or are listed as joint authors when their findings are published in
academic journals. The collaborating professors frequently become exceptional mentors who can encourage and advise students, often for many years after the students leave Smith.
By providing significant financial support, the college attracts outstanding students who want to do meaningful work. STRIDE frees them to concentrate, over an extended period of time, on projects that are valuable to society and themselves.
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Changing
the Face
of Science &
Engineering
Expanding Student-Faculty
Research
Securing & Retaining
Talented Faculty
Extending Learning
Beyond the Classroom
Attracting
the Best Students
The Annual Fund
Endowment
for Scholarships
Ada Comstock
Scholars Program
Corporate &
Foundation Support
STRIDE
Smith as a
Global
College
Preserving
Smith's
Great Collections
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