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Smith has more than 46,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate degree recipients in
all 50 states and more than 100 countries.
Smith alumna Hoon Eng Khoo '73, provost and acting vice-chancellor of the Asian University for Women, a new regional institution in Bangladesh dedicated to educating and molding young women leaders, contends that her scholarship to attend Smith College changed her life. Read more...
A series of programs on global issues with President Carol T. Christ and prominent faculty and alumnae. Read more...
After studying French for most of her time at Smith, and taking Italian studies her senior year, Laura Itzkowitz ’09 headed to Rome, where she discovered a cultural resource that combined her interests. The French Academy in Rome, housed in the grand Villa Medici (pictured), has become a regular stop for Itzkowitz as she further cultivates her studies of both cultures. Read more...
Smith alumna Audubon Dougherty '02, a filmmaker and digital activist interested in the role of media in international development, offers an account of rural Peru's transition to the Internet. More...
With songs sung in Farsi and Pashto, and a vocal style borrowing lavishly from Indian traditions, a new album, titled chup, of original music by Haniya Aslam ’02 and Zeb Bangash (Mount Holyoke ’02) reflects the sounds of the group's Pakistan homeland. Yet, with pop and jazz backbeats often arranged in rock group orchestration, chup also draws heavily from Western music influences. Zeb and Haniya have attracted a wave of public attention in Pakistan and beyond for their debut. Read more...
Valerie Love ’02 teamed with MacKenzie Hamilton, a member of the incoming class of 2013, this month as volunteers with Global Youth Connect, a delegation of young people from a range of backgrounds who travel to the globe's trouble spots to take and urge action on human rights issues. This week, Love and Hamilton will conclude their month-long assignment in Rwanda, a country scarred by a devastating wave of genocidal violence in 1994. Love wrote about the experience for the GrecourtGate.
Recognizing
Smith's leadership in global education, the class of 1978 has challenged classmates
to endow a scholarship fund for exceptional young women from developing countries.
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An online journal featuring
social and cultural commentary about the United States by non-U.S. based Americanists,
Chatter seeks contributions and insights from alumnae of the American Studies
Diploma Program, who are ideally positioned to reflect on American culture and politics
from their dual perspective of international students having studied in the U.S.
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