Grécourt Gate

In reviewing the top news stories of the decade, the Washington Post included reflections from Prof. Steven Heydemann about the Arab Spring. “There had been self-immolations in Tunisia before," Heydemann noted. "For whatever reason, [this] act seemed to be a tipping point.”

For years, journalist Noelle Crombie ’92 has chronicled the devastating—and often disregarded—stories of victims of sexual assault. In an award-winning newspaper series, Crombie revealed how the brutal rape of one forgotten survivor could have stopped a serial killer in his tracks—if only the victim had been believed.

Sibyl Brown ’14 became passionate about food justice while a student at Smith and founded the Smith chapter of the National Food Recovery Network, which continues today. As an alumna, she continues to work for food equity and wants to clarify some misconceptions about who exactly is going hungry in America.

“Poetry first found me in song,” national youth poet laureate Kara Jackson ’23 told Bustle. “I learned to love language on a B-side, in the fine print of my father’s vinyls. Music was my first motivation to write.”

Digital stories exploring the theme of “home” by students from Rwanda to India to the U.S., are featured in the latest issue of the Smith-based journal.

A Lazarus Center course on “Getting Unstuck” helps students focus on what the Christian Science Monitor says is “a gaping hole in modern college education – a lack of attention to those big life questions about what matters.”