Smith in the News
This page features selected news items about Smith College people and programs.
September 2020
9/16/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: The falsehood of a rosy future -- Olympics 2020 - Nikkei Newspaper
9/16/2020
9/16/2020
9/16/2020
9/16/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: What Broadway can learn from sports - The New York Times
9/15/2020
Start of college this year is unforgettable, bittersweet - MassLive/Springfield Republican
9/10/2020
9/9/2020
9/9/2020
Prof. Loretta Ross: Can you be too rich to be canceled? - Town & Country
9/8/2020
9/8/2020
9/8/2020
9/8/2020
9/7/2020
Prof. Anderea Moore: Interpreting Beethoven - MSN New Zealand
9/2/2020
Prof. Michael Gorra: The Jim Crow South in Faulkner's fiction - New York Review of Books
9/2/2020
Prof. Carrie Baker: The difference women voters make - Ms. Online
9/2/2020
9/2/2020
9/2/2020
9/2/2020
9/2/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: NBA boycott comes at critical time - Boston Herald
9/2/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Are athletes paid too much? - The Athletic
9/2/2020
9/2/2020
Prof. Howard Gold: On the race between Richie Neal and Alex Morse - Jewish Insider
9/2/2020
Feeding the Revolution: Gaiana Joseph ’17 - The New York Times Style Magazine
August 2020
8/31/2020
Kimberly Drew ’12: What Should a Museum Look Like? - Vanity Fair
8/28/2020
8/25/2020
Review: Prof. Michael Gorra's ‘The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War’ - The New York Times
8/24/2020
8/19/2020
8/19/2020
8/19/2020
8/18/2020
Prof. Jordan Taylor: How early U.S. newspapers brokered slavery - Journalist's Resource
8/18/2020
8/18/2020
8/18/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: The bill has come due for college sports - Washington Post
8/18/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Can the Olympics survive 2020? - Business Casual
8/18/2020
8/18/2020
8/18/2020
8/18/2020
Prof. Michael Gorra: What to Do About William Faulkner - The Atlantic
8/18/2020
8/18/2020
8/17/2020
Prof. Andrea Hairston's new book injects hope into a precarious world - New England Public Media
8/17/2020
8/17/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: How will college sports survive without football? - Boise State Public Radio
8/17/2020
Prof. Loretta Ross: Speaking out against the call-out culture - New England Public Media
8/17/2020
8/12/2020
8/12/2020
8/12/2020
August wave of campus opening reversals - Inside Higher Ed
8/5/2020
Prof. Steven Heydemann: Trump's Syria sanctions cannot solve the problem - The New York Times
8/5/2020
Prof. Carrie Baker: Maternal health during the pandemic - Daily Hampshire Gazette
8/5/2020
8/5/2020
8/4/2020
8/4/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Rethinking the Tokyo Olympics - Nikkei Newspaper
July 2020
7/31/2020
7/30/2020
President Kathleen McCartney: Please wear a mask - Daily Hampshire Gazette
7/27/2020
Prof. Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor: On Andrew Jackson - The New York Times
7/27/2020
Dr. Angela Rasmussen ’00: On the first coronavirus vaccine - The New York Times
7/24/2020
7/24/2020
Professor Loretta Ross: On the cancellation of John Muir - East Bay Times
7/24/2020
Colleges prepare for students’ fall return to campus - MassLive/Springfield Republican
7/22/2020
7/22/2020
7/22/2020
7/22/2020
7/22/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: What's in a name change? - The Athletic
7/22/2020
7/22/2020
7/22/2020
7/22/2020
7/22/2020
7/22/2020
7/22/2020
Prof. Mehammed Amadeus Mack: Let's talk about sex, habibi - The Revealer
7/22/2020
Jane Curtis ‘39: Still fighting for justice at 102 - Christian Science Monitor
7/19/2020
College professors condemn ICE policy for international students - New England Public Media
7/9/2020
Colleges react to ICE guidance on international students - Daily Hampshire Gazette
7/8/2020
Smith team wins ventilator challenge - Medical Design and Outsourcing
7/8/2020
7/8/2020
7/8/2020
7/8/2020
7/8/2020
7/8/2020
Aliyah Logan '24: Thoughts on Protests - Gothamist
7/7/2020
June 2020
6/29/2020
6/29/2020
6/28/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Baseball's uncertainty complicates a deal - Philadelphia Inquirer
6/24/2020
Isabel Fields ’21: College life during the pandemic - Teen Vogue
6/24/2020
6/24/2020
6/23/2020
6/23/2020
6/22/2020
6/22/2020
6/22/2020
Mary Bull ’58: My father, my parish priest - Los Angeles Times
6/22/2020
6/22/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Modern Olympics? - BBC Radio
6/22/2020
Colleges acknowledge Juneteenth - Inside Higher Ed
6/22/2020
Prof. Courtney Lannert: Bizarre quantum matter in space - Scientific American
6/18/2020
President Kathleen McCartney: When students return to campus - The New York Times
6/17/2020
6/16/2020
6/16/2020
6/16/2020
6/16/2020
6/15/2020
6/15/2020
Coach George Lombard: Honoring his mother, Rosamond ‘Posy’ Lombard ‘65 - Los Angeles Daily News
6/15/2020
6/15/2020
Tammy Baldwin '84: On Joe Biden's VP list? - The New York Times
6/15/2020
Prof. Annaliese Beery: Female research subjects are still an afterthought - Inside Higher Ed
6/11/2020
Prof. John M. Connolly: ’Black Lives Matter’ slogan is profoundly American - Daily Hampshire Gazette
6/10/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: What fan-less games mean for the NFL - Dallas Morning News
6/10/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: MLB negotiations unique because of COVID-19 - Los Angeles Times
6/10/2020
6/10/2020
6/10/2020
6/10/2020
6/10/2020
6/10/2020
Prof. Lauren Duncan: The elements of anger - Medium: Elemental
6/10/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Is the window losing on baseball this year? - Sports Business Daily
6/10/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: California and the MLB - NBC Sports
6/10/2020
6/8/2020
6/4/2020
Lessons for the class of 2020—from the class of 2008 - Quartz at Work
6/3/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: A critical week in baseball - Philadelphia Inquirer
6/3/2020
6/3/2020
6/3/2020
6/3/2020
6/3/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Players disappointed by MLB's sliding-scale salary plan - Philadelphia Inquirer
6/1/2020
Checking in with Carolina Dellepiane '20 - Daily Hampshire Gazette
6/1/2020
6/1/2020
Noted: Class of 2020 - Wall Street Journal
May 2020
5/28/2020
Sofia Engelman ‘19: Dancers find footing in pandemic - Daily Hampshire Gazette
5/28/2020
5/28/2020
Smith grads support internships during pandemic - MassLive/Springfield Republican
5/28/2020
5/26/2020
5/26/2020
5/26/2020
Visiting Writer Susan Faludi: ‘Believe all women’ is a right-wing trap - The New York Times
5/26/2020
5/26/2020
5/26/2020
5/26/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Minnesota Gophers post-pandemic - Twin Cities Pioneer Press
5/19/2020
Pelosi to Smith grads: ’Know your purpose’ - WHDH Boston
5/19/2020
Pelosi address Smith's virtual commencement - WBZ Boston
5/19/2020
Pelosi speaks at Smith commencement - WWLP - Channel 22
5/19/2020
Pelosi addresses Smith grads - Western Mass News
5/19/2020
‘Know your power,’ Pelosi urges grads - Daily Hampshire Gazette
5/19/2020
Pelosi urges grads to make progress for America - MassLive/Springfield Republican
5/19/2020
Pelosi tells grads: Know your purpose, power - Boston.com
5/19/2020
Pelosi: ’Know your purpose; know your power - Associated Press
5/19/2020
5/18/2020
5/18/2020
5/18/2020
5/18/2020
5/18/2020
5/13/2020
5/13/2020
5/13/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Pandemic could change landscape for minor leagues - Associated Press
5/13/2020
5/12/2020
Prof. Daniel K. Gardner: The planet can't afford a coronavirus feud - The New Republic
5/12/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Sports grapple with fan-free future - Agence France-Presse
5/12/2020
5/11/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: How bad will the financial hit to baseball be? - Washington Post
5/11/2020
Prof. Loretta Ross: How approval of the birth control pill changed lives - National Public Radio
5/8/2020
Trudi Cloyd '07: Being a COVID survivor keeps this doctor strong - Harper's Bazaar
5/8/2020
Smith archives document COVID-19 experience - Daily Hampshire Gazette
5/8/2020
5/5/2020
5/5/2020
Cady Chaplin '12: Healing in the ICU during COVID-19 - The New Yorker
5/4/2020
Claire Lane '20: The great COVID experiment - Daily Hampshire Gazette
5/1/2020
5/1/2020
5/1/2020
Prof. Jefferson Hunter: Timely thoughts on the common toad - Daily Hampshire Gazette
5/1/2020
Prof. Jen Malkowski: Analyzing a classic Buffy episode: ‘The Body‘ - Buffering the Vampire Slayer
5/1/2020
President Kathleen McCartney: The purpose of the endowment - The New York Times
April 2020
4/30/2020
4/27/2020
4/27/2020
4/27/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: On the return of sports teams to New York - Agence France-Presse
4/24/2020
How schools are grading during the coronavirus - Teen Vogue
4/24/2020
How botanic gardens are growing without visitors - Atlas Obscura
4/23/2020
Katie Fleischer ’21: The darker side of environmentalism - Ms. Magazine Online
4/23/2020
Who is Betty Friedan? - Harper's Bazaar
4/23/2020
Prof. Paula Giddings: Remembering Cheryl Wall - Art Daily
4/23/2020
Prof. Carrie Baker: The long fight for the ERA, Part 2 - Ms. Magazine Online
4/23/2020
Prof. Carrie Baker: Ensuring safe abortion during the pandemic - Daily Hampshire Gazette
4/22/2020
4/22/2020
4/22/2020
The great experiment: College in the time of COVID-19 - Daily Hampshire Gazette
4/21/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Reduced hotel revenues mean reduced stadium funding - The Business Journals
4/21/2020
4/21/2020
4/21/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Sports after the pandemic - NBC Sports: Football in America
4/21/2020
4/21/2020
4/21/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Pandemic will create long-lasting issues for sports teams - SportsBusiness Daily
4/17/2020
Anita Waxman AC '01: Does musical theater still have an economy? - The Berkshire Edge
4/17/2020
Isabel Fields ’21: The secondary gender wage gap - Ms. Magazine Blog
4/17/2020
Prof. Carrie Baker: The long fight for the ERA, Part 1 - Ms. Magazine Blog
4/17/2020
Prof. Carrie Baker: The stories behind 12 reproductive rights cases - Ms. Magazine Blog
4/15/2020
Smith plans virtual commencement - Daily Hampshire Gazette
4/13/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: How the pandemic will affect Ohio State's bottom line - Columbus Dispatch
4/13/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Major League Baseball after the pandemic - Boston Sports Journal
4/13/2020
Prof. Jen Malkowski: An army of fact checkers to battle fake news - Teen Kids News
4/11/2020
Prof. Carrie Baker: Self-managed abortion -- is it legally safe? - Ms. Magazine Blog
4/9/2020
Wendy Schmidt '77: The wonders of the deep sea - USA Today
4/9/2020
Seven types of COVID-19 relief for college students - NerdWallet
4/8/2020
Prof. Anna Mwaba: Addressing a pandemic on a continental level - Africa is a Country
4/8/2020
4/8/2020
Prof. Martha Ackelsberg: What is the federal stockpile for? - The New York Times
4/8/2020
4/6/2020
Supporting first responders - Daily Hampshire Gazette
4/1/2020
Lillian Carrasquillo ’05 tells her data science story - Silicon Angle
4/1/2020
Sarah Biskowitz ’21 is home from JYA in Paris and optimistic - Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
4/1/2020
4/1/2020
March 2020
3/30/2020
3/30/2020
3/30/2020
3/27/2020
Prof. Carrie Baker: Why we need telemedicine abortion - Ms. Magazine Blog
3/25/2020
Prof. Randy Frost: What would Freud make of the toilet paper panic? - The New Yorker
3/25/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Sports, leagues planning ‘on the fly‘ during crisis - Associated Press
3/25/2020
3/25/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: New leadership for U.S. Soccer and the USWNT lawsuit - Sports Illustrated
3/25/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Delaying the 2020 Olympics - Marketplace
3/24/2020
Prof. Steve Waksman: Why music matters right now - The New York Times
3/24/2020
3/23/2020
3/23/2020
Smith models change in the ‘asterisk semester’ - Inside Higher Ed
3/23/2020
Prof. Carrie Baker: Our students don't melt under fire - Daily Hampshire Gazette
3/23/2020
Oliver Haug ’20: An ending that's a promise - Daily Hampshire Gazette
3/19/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: How pandemic will affect MLS, crew - Columbus Dispatch
3/19/2020
3/19/2020
Barbara Washburn ’35: The “accidental mountaineer” who mapped the Grand Canyon - National Geographic
3/19/2020
3/19/2020
Prof Zimbalist: Cities affected by events canceled due to COVID-19 - The Seattle Times
3/19/2020
3/19/2020
Prof. Jordan Taylor: Political fissures may worsen COVID-19 outbreak - Washington Post
3/18/2020
Colleges in forefront of virus containment - The New York Times
3/18/2020
Margaret Farrar Petherbridge 1919: The true parent of the crossword - The New York Times
3/17/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: A season without sports - Houston Chronicle
3/17/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Answering questions about suspended NBA season - Yahoo! Lifestyle
3/17/2020
3/17/2020
3/17/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Amid pandemic, Olympics Twitter puts on a happy face - Reuters/The New York Times
3/17/2020
3/17/2020
3/13/2020
Italy Interrupted: Sadie Wiese '21 - Daily Hampshire Gazette
3/12/2020
3/10/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Will the Olympics happen? - Japan Times
3/10/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Coronavirus and the Olympics - NPR Weekend Edition Saturday
3/10/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: To pay or not to pay? - StarTalk Radio
3/10/2020
Vice President Audrey Smith: COVID-19 is changing admission - Inside Higher Ed
3/10/2020
3/10/2020
Prof. Virginia Hayssen: A female perspective in science - The Conversation
3/10/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Hidden athletic fees - NBC News
3/10/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Tentacles of Olympic cancellation would be worldwide - Associated Press
3/4/2020
3/3/2020
3/2/2020
Simran Sethi ’92: How to be good - The New York Times
3/2/2020
Matt Donovan: Poetry Center director gets the words just right - Daily Hampshire Gazette
February 2020
2/27/2020
2/27/2020
Prof. Carrie Baker: Is it too late to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment? - Daily Hampshire Gazette
2/26/2020
2/26/2020
2/26/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Is the Astros cheating scandal good for baseball? - The New York Times
2/26/2020
Prof. Brent Durbin: Will Richard Grenell eliminate dissent? - Washington Post
2/25/2020
Prof. Carrie Baker: The complicated history of women's suffrage - WGBY "Connecting Point"
2/25/2020
Jane Lakes Harman ’66: The nation’s top spy job is about to be destroyed - The New York Times
2/18/2020
Kimberly Probolus ’11: Men need to listen - The New York Times
2/18/2020
2/18/2020
Prof. Barbara Brehm: When is the best time to work out? - Yahoo Lifestyle Singapore
2/14/2020
2/13/2020
Mimi Bull '58: My father, the parish priest - New York Times
2/11/2020
Prof. Michael Gorra: On Susan Sontag - New York Review of Books
2/11/2020
Provost Michael Thurston: Community college transfer: Everyone benefits - Inside Higher Ed
2/11/2020
Prof. Nancy Whitter: Unlikely allies - Washington Post
2/10/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Football attendance falls as student culture shifts - Hartford Courrant
2/5/2020
2/4/2020
2/4/2020
Prof. Randy Frost: Hoarding stems from a sense of responsibility - Radio New Zealand
January 2020
1/29/2020
1/27/2020
Yoo Eun Kim '16: What's in a name? - San Francisco Chronicle
1/22/2020
Sylvia Plath ’55 letters among top books of 2010s - London Times
1/22/2020
1/21/2020
1/21/2020
Evie Tochterman ’00 cares for koalas in bushfire aftermath - Sidney Morning Herald
1/21/2020
Pres. Kathleen McCartney: Prioritizing and thriving - Thrive Global
1/17/2020
Prof. Carrie Baker: ‘Bombshell’ satisfying and hard to watch - Ms. Magazine
1/17/2020
1/10/2020
Prof. Andrea Moore: The best way to hear Beethoven anew - Miami Herald
1/7/2020
Prof. Marc Lendler: On impeachment - WGBY's Connecting Point
1/2/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: On the boom in building sports stadiums - Bloomberg News
1/2/2020
1/2/2020
1/2/2020
1/2/2020
Review: “Battling Bella,” by Leandra Ruth Zarnow ‘01 - New York Times
1/2/2020
1/2/2020
Prof. Carrie Baker: What women won in 2019 - Ms. Magazine
1/2/2020
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Predictions for the new year - The Athletic
1/2/2020
1/2/2020