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Women Win Honors Around the World and Near Home
Elizabeth Crews AC’09 (pictured, far left)
attributes her Smith education for enabling her to write an award-winning essay
at the Oxford Summer Seminar. A film produced by Victoria Gamburg
’93 (center) about the lives of women in Russia is
up for an Emmy Award. And Janine Olthuis ’08, who is headed
to Canada's Dalhousie University, won a scholarship from the New England Psychological
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On
Monday, Sept. 1, the physics department
will hold its second annual Physics Fest, a celebration
to show the fun side of the field
while imparting practical concepts. Lie across a bed
of nails. Play with laser beams and sound waves. McConnell
Hall foyer, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
In her book, Inventing
the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography,
Daphne Lamothe, assistant professor of Afro-American
studies, explores the ways in which major literary
figures adapted ethnographic
and folkloric experience in their defining narratives
of Black culture.
With the installation
of more than 30 "blue-light" emergency calling units,
people on campus will have more than 70 stations from
which to quickly contact public safety when
needed. The units stand more than 10 feet high and
are topped with iridescent blue lights visible
from across campus.
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Natasha Trethewey
will read from her Pulitzer Prize-winning volume of
poetry Native Guard at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday,
Sept. 2, in Sweeney Concert Hall. Tretheway's volume,
which explores the complex memory of the history of
the American South, was the summer reading assignment
for incoming students.
The recorded
voices of dozens of women who have contributed in myriad
ways to advancing women's issues and equality during
the latter half of the 20th century are featured in "Voice
of Feminism," an electronic compendium of their
perspectives in the Sophia Smith Collection.
The project is ongoing.
The Smith College
Campus Center is featured in a recently published monograph, Surface/Subsurface,
by the New York firm Weiss/Manfredi. The Campus Center
is an example of the company's approach to architecture
that considers structures' surroundings.
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Campus
Center in New Monograph
