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NewsSmith is published three times each year by the Smith College Office of College Relations for alumnae, staff, students, parents and friends. We welcome your comments and suggestions; Jan McCoy Ebbets is NewsSmith's editor.

From the Editor

Dear Reader: You will see NewsSmith twice more—in February and June 2010—before we make the leap to green. Starting in fall 2010, the kinds of stories you have found here—about teaching and learning, intellectual life, and students' experiences—will be featured in a new way on the college's Web site. We will continue to present a vivid portrait of Smith today—while saving paper and reaping environmental benefits. Stay tuned for developments.


		How Smith Students Are Making the Most of Their Education Sophomores Get an Early Start on Connecting the Dots with New Advising Program Choosing a Path When You Know Exactly What You Want—and When You Have No Idea Beyond Junior Year Abroad A Busy Season for Ford Hall Tours Smith Efforts to Get Greener Are Adding Up Meet the New Smithies World-Class Students: Welcome to the Class of 2013 News From Around Campus

		Resilience and Innovation: Smith Responds to Economic Realities Reconciling High Aspirations with Financial Realities Is This a New Age for American Consumers? Smith Prominence in Buddhist Studies Continues to Rise Where To...Next? Congrats, Graduates and Fellowship Recipients! Helping Military Families Cope with Change Have a Spot of Tea and a Bit of History This is About Scholarship The Literary Lights of Artists' Colony Cast Long Shadows to Smith College Web extra News From Around Campus

		If These Walls Could Talk, They'd Speak Volumes A Reading Room Gets a Makeover Remembering the Library Web extra Sylvia and Me Math is Hard—That's Why They Love It Smith Students Scrutinize Paths to Happiness Foot Soldiers for Feminism Tell Their Stories Arty Facts: Three things you might like to know about the Museum of Art... To Dye For: Yarn Color Named for Sophia Smith Things to Do Before You Graduate: Suggestions from NewsSmith's student writers Letters to the Editor News From Around Campus Seen & Heard

		Venturing Into the "Visceral Pleasure of Discovery" When Student and Professor Team Up, a Rich Collaboration Unfolds Smith Research Unlocks Secrets of Renaissance Manuscript Serendipitous Paths Lead from Smith Around the Globe The Psalm 102 Bus: Three Portraits from Zimbabwe Safe and Sound: New Safety Measures In Place for Campus Emergencies Setting a Smith "Gold" Standard Learning on the Job Bare Identities: Team Approach to Mounting An Exhibition Where the Zipcars Are Smith Junior One of New Faces of Engineering on PBS Reality Show Class of 2012 Typifies Academic Achievement, Pluck and Diversity News From Around Campus What They Are Saying: Smith in the News Seen & Heard

		A History of Engagement: Smith Plays an Active Part on the World Stage From Combat Readiness to Combat Stress Despair in War-Torn France Eased After Smith Women Arrived in 1917 Smith Influence Extends Worldwide Smith Sees Surge in Applications Finding Beads in Paradise Pulitzer Winner Margaret Edson ’83 Will Deliver Commencement Address Ms. Smithie Goes to Washington (and New Hampshire) New on the Smith College Bookshelf News From Around Campus

		Immersed in Verse: Poetry Center Anniversary a Cause for Celebration Engineering’s Glenn Ellis Named U.S. Professor of the Year Sylvia Plath’s Women and Poetry What Does Excellent Teaching Look Like? Students Help Adopted Children Connect to Vietnamese Heritage Smith Joins National Pact to Tackle Climate Change First in Sports, Then Careers, These Women Played to Win Darfur Advocate Reeves to Receive Honorary Degree Letter to the Editor Web extra News From Around Campus

		Showing Smith’s Global Reach: Fellowships Exemplify Smith’s Prominence as a “World College” Coaching Her Team to Seek Higher Goals The Power of a Few Good Ideas The Smith Class of 2011: Walking the Walk Mellon Grant Boosts Museum Studies Program Students Join Scholars at International Conferences Smith Launches Center to Promote Quantitative Literacy Reading Assignment Looks at the Birth of the Islamic Republic Honoring Those Who Teach and Inspire at Smith Where the Action Is Christ, Creighton Collaborate to Promote Women’s Education Smith Professors Launch New Study of Women and Money Sports Roundup News From Around Campus

		Wisdom, Compassion, Peace: The Dalai Lama Comes to Smith From New Boilers to Lightbulbs, Smith Lessens Its Environmental Impact Smith Researchers Document How Stereotypes Affect Brain Activity, Performance Teach a Kid to Coach War in Winter: The Photography of Cynthia Elbaum ’89 Steinem to Speak at 2007 Commencement Celebrating the Scholarly Work of Smith Students Botanists Promote Pink Wildflower Power Seen & Heard Commentary: How I Learned to Fear and Admire Young Women News From Around Campus

		High Tech at Your Fingertips Looking for the Latest Technology? There’s Plenty of It Here Face to Face Still Aces Hi-Tech, Sometimes Neilson Library Will Soon Offer the Best Seats Around A Book of Rare Beauty Kahn Scholars Research Marriage and Divorce Smith’s Growing Opportunities in Middle East Studies Ford Hall Takes Shape Smith Launches Junior-Year, Postbaccalaureate Math Programs Focus on Diversity Issues Continues Seen & Heard Hands-On Experience With the Smith Investment Club: Priceless Examining Lives Well Worth Living News From Around Campus

		Pathfinders: A New Generation Takes the First Steps to College The Root of the Problem: Keeping Trees Alive The Smith Gardens: The Perfect Place for a Summer Internship Smith Celebrates the Power of Words in Poetry Museum Hails New Acquisition An Art Detective Story: The Case of the Missing Provenance Sherrerd Awards Honor Four Smith Professors Smart Power Smith Expected to be Ranked at the Top for Fulbrights No Car? Try a Zipcar On the Road With Praxis Assigned Reading: The Quest of One Man Whose Selflessness May Inspire Others News From Around Campus Commentary: Advice to the Class of 2010

		Cover Story: A Trio of Students, A Day in the Life Congresswoman to Speak at Commencement What Does Being a Journalist Mean? Buy Local Facebook: The New Student Preoccupation Four Faculty Honored for Excellent Teaching The Kitchen of Bike Fixin’ Rallying to Volunteer in the Gulf Coast Seated Grace Studying Baby Boomers As They Retire Still Running Readership Survey: The Results Are In News From Around Campus Seen & Heard Commentary: Understanding the Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation

		Why Research Matters at a Liberal Arts College Adas and Their Children Will Soon Have a New Place to Call Home Four Distinguished Alumnae Will Be Honored on Rally Day 2006 Improving the Spaces Where Science Is Taught Sorting Rich History Smith Is Number One in Fulbright Awards Eyeing the Skies With a New Telescope Calling All Houses Into Service More About Woolf: A New Book and on the Web Managing Rising Fuel Prices Shutting Off Monitors, Saving Energy Getting the Inside Scoop on the Museum World Distinguishing the Best Among Smith’s Educators Commentary: Smith’s Museum of Art: A Powerful Place News Briefs

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