Smith in the News
This page features selected news items about Smith College people and programs.
August 2022
8/17/2022
Prof. Jay Garfield: How (and why) to lose yourself - Ten Percent Happier
8/17/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Massachusetts’ new reproductive rights and gender-affirming law - WHMP “Afternoon Buzz”
8/15/2022
8/9/2022
8/9/2022
8/9/2022
Rachel Gorman Cooper ’23: We fought so hard for equality. Now we must fight again. - The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
8/9/2022
8/9/2022
Geothermal heating and cooling: Renewable energy’s hidden gem - Yale Climate Connections
8/2/2022
8/2/2022
8/2/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Pregnancy as punishment - Daily Hampshire Gazette
8/2/2022
July 2022
7/27/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: The Feminism and Legal Theory Project - Ms. Magazine Online
7/25/2022
Prof. David Howlett: On a new photo of Mormon founder Joseph Smith - Religion News Service
7/20/2022
7/20/2022
7/20/2022
7/20/2022
7/20/2022
7/20/2022
7/20/2022
7/20/2022
7/20/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Crisis-pregnancy centers have been orbiting campuses for years. What are they? - Chronicle of Higher Education
7/20/2022
7/20/2022
Women's colleges respond to overturning Roe v. Wade - Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
7/20/2022
7/12/2022
Prof. Lucie Schmidt: First-gen economists in academia - Washington Post
7/4/2022
Prof. Lauren Duncan: Where are all the gun violence protestors? - Connecticut Public Radio
7/4/2022
7/4/2022
Profs. Carrie Baker, Loretta Ross: Advocates point to existing support network around abortion - MassLive/Springfield Republican
7/4/2022
7/4/2022
Where there's laundry, there’s art - American Coin-Op
7/4/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Conference realignment makes another seismic shift - Associated Press
7/4/2022
7/4/2022
President Kathleen McCartney and women’s college presidents: On the abortion ruling - The New York Times
June 2022
6/28/2022
Prof. Loretta Ross: America before and after ‘Roe’ - The New York Times
6/27/2022
At SCMA: Maya Lin ‘Mappings’ - World Architects
6/27/2022
6/27/2022
6/27/2022
An unsurprising step back: Reactions to Roe v. Wade - Daily Hampshire Gazette
6/27/2022
Prof. Kathleen McCartney: On Roe v. Wade - National Observer
6/27/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: On Supreme Court decision regarding Roe v. Wade - MassLive/Springfield Republican
6/21/2022
6/21/2022
6/21/2022
Prof. Ruth Ozeki ’80 wins Women’s prize for fiction - The Guardian
6/21/2022
Michelle Moulton ’23, Phoebe Kolbert ’23: Sharing abortion stories - Ms. Magazine Online
6/21/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: What does the Heard-Depp trial mean for #MeToo? - Showcase (TRT World)
6/21/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: FDA abortion pill policy may preempt state restrictions - Ms. Magazine Online
6/21/2022
6/21/2022
Justice Kavanaugh’s classmates rally for ’Roe’ - New Haven Independent
6/21/2022
At reunion, Kavanaugh’s Yale classmates protest his position on abortion - New Haven Register
6/21/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Enforcing criminal abortion bans after Roe - Ms. Magazine Online
6/21/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: This is how abortion pills work - Now This News
6/21/2022
6/21/2022
6/21/2022
6/21/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Abortion on our own terms - Ms. Magazine Online
6/21/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: On the Braves’ new park - Atlanta Business Chronicle
6/21/2022
6/21/2022
Aria Martinelli ’24, Kate Keelan ’24, Laura Fay ’25: Northampton and the 1950 census - Daily Hampshire Gazette
6/21/2022
Prof. Loretta Ross: Is the future still female? - The New York Times
6/21/2022
On Juneteenth weekend, Prof. Loretta Ross and other Black activists march for abortion rights - Weekend Edition Sunday
6/21/2022
Smith professor Ruth Ozeki wins prestigious literary prize in Great Britain - Daily Hampshire Gazette
6/17/2022
Gloria Steinem ’56: ‘I feel proud, and I feel angry as hell’ - The New York Times
6/14/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Proposed federal law prohibits nonconsensual condom removal - Ms. Magazine Online
6/14/2022
Prof. Claire Leavitt: California‘s trailer for November’s blockbuster - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
6/14/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Investing in fun - WalletHub
6/6/2022
Meihui Chen ’23: Are we making the economy greener by adding more green jobs? - Critical Mass Bulletin
6/3/2022
6/1/2022
May 2022
5/31/2022
5/31/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: New laws may soon require some public universities to offer abortion pills - Chronicle of Higher Education
5/25/2022
Ellen Weldon ’76 failed penmanship as a child. Now she’s a successful calligrapher. - The New York Times
5/25/2022
Schools are working to improve their carbon footprint - Environmental Leader
5/25/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: On the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp trial - Intercambio (Ecos del Combeima—Colombia)
5/25/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: What the leaked Alito decision could mean for women’s health - The Public Morality Radio Show
5/25/2022
Campus landscapes: So much more than marketing - Inside Higher Ed
5/25/2022
5/24/2022
5/24/2022
Wendy Schmidt ‘77: Philanthropy can seed agroecology - Inside Philanthropy
5/23/2022
5/23/2022
5/23/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Oklahoma passes extreme vigilante abortion ban - Ms. Magazine Online
5/23/2022
5/17/2022
VP Floyd Cheung: On equity and inclusion - GoodCourse
5/17/2022
Prof. Pamela Petro: To Wales, with love - Daily Hampshire Gazette
5/17/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Lack of abortion services on Cape Cod - Cape Cod Times
5/17/2022
5/17/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: On the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp trial - BBC News/Mundo
5/17/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: On crisis pregnancy centers - WHMP -- "Afternoon Buzz"
5/13/2022
Prof. Lauren Duncan: Protesting at justices’ homes - Voice of America
5/13/2022
Anna Peel ’22: Climate change is a human rights issue - Middletown Press
5/12/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Pregnant? Need help? They have an agenda - The New York Times
5/11/2022
5/11/2022
5/11/2022
Smith College to become carbon neutral - WWLP - Channel 22
5/11/2022
5/9/2022
5/9/2022
5/9/2022
Massachusetts lawmakers want to improve access to medication abortion at public colleges - MassLive/Springfield Republican
5/9/2022
5/6/2022
5/6/2022
5/6/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Abortion Pills FAQs: Get the facts about medical abortions - Ms. Magazine Online
5/6/2022
5/6/2022
5/6/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Reacting to possible changes to Roe v. Wade - Afternoon Buzz
5/6/2022
Area abortion-rights supporters decry high court's draft ruling on Roe - Daily Hampshire Gazette
5/6/2022
5/6/2022
Smith College to break ground on environmental energy project - Environmental Leader
5/6/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Hana‘s story: Tricked and traumatized by a fake abortion clinic - Ms. Magazine Online
5/6/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: What would Alito‘s draft opinion mean for women‘s rights? - Ms. Magazine Online
5/6/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Thousands of Massachusetts college students live in ‘abortion deserts’ - Boston University News Service
5/6/2022
Gloria Steinem ’56: On the consequences of Roe v. Wade - NPR "All Things Considered"
5/4/2022
Smith plans big cut in emissions with $200M overhaul of heating, cooling systems - Daily Hampshire Gazette
5/4/2022
5/4/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Will hosting the World Cup bring investment to Qatar? - Investment Monitor
5/3/2022
April 2022
4/29/2022
4/29/2022
4/29/2022
Mona Sinha ’88: Leveraging financial power to build equity - NPR: Our Body Politic
4/27/2022
Hannah Beck ’23: Helping America rebuild - Ms. Magazine Online
4/24/2022
4/24/2022
Prof. Greg White: Climate change and forced migration - The Sweaty Penguin
4/19/2022
4/19/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Kentucky becomes first state to ban in-clinic abortions - Ms. Magazine Online
4/18/2022
4/18/2022
Ramona Flores ‘22: Google Jigsaw introduces new tool to protect high-risk online users - Ms. Magazine Online
4/18/2022
4/18/2022
Lauren Wolfe ‘05: Truth in influencer advertising - Washington Post
4/18/2022
Where Jerry Zaks MFA ‘69 goes to escape the ‘pure pleasure’ of the theater - The New York Times
4/18/2022
4/18/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Texas woman‘s arrest foreshadows post-Roe future - Ms. Magazine Online
4/18/2022
4/18/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Self-managed abortion pill ads launch in NYC subway stations - Ms. Magazine Online
4/18/2022
Reginald Dwayne Betts brings theatrical adaptation of his poetry to Smith - Daily Hampshire Gazette
4/13/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: The Penguins’ best playoff matchup - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
4/13/2022
4/13/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: What San Diego can learn from the Buffalo stadium deal - San Diego Union-Tribune
4/13/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: The great, not great things about Opening Day - Cincinnati Enquirer
4/13/2022
Smith students collecting books through April - Greenfield Reminder
4/12/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: The threat of pregnancy crisis centers in a post-Roe U.S. - Ms. Magazine Online
4/12/2022
Prof. Benjamin Baumer: Teaching statistics with baseball - Tech & Learning
4/11/2022
4/11/2022
Prof. Marguerite Itamar Harrison: On the death of novelist Lygia Fagundes Telles - The New York Times
4/11/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Buffalo Billions - Vox Podcast
4/11/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Cavs owner Dan Gilbert among bidders for England‘s Chelsea Football Club - Ideastream Public Media
4/11/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: On the sale of the Cincinnati Reds - Cincinnati Enquirer
4/11/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Woman arrested for abortion in Texas - Ms. Magazine Online
4/11/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Food sales are covering MLB‘s player salaries - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
4/6/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Should universities embrace NFTs? - Times Higher Education
4/6/2022
4/5/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: A survivor's story - Ms. Magazine Online
4/5/2022
4/5/2022
Prof. Alex Barron: Urgent takeaways from the new UN climate report - National Geographic
4/4/2022
4/1/2022
A new role at Prairie View for Smith President Emerita Ruth Simmons - The Texas Tribune
March 2022
3/31/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Illinois telemedicine abortion provider aims to break stigma - Public News Service
3/31/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Throwing a challenge flag on the Bills deal - New York Daily News
3/31/2022
3/30/2022
3/30/2022
Rachel Sturges ’02: Imagining the wind - Earth Island Journal
3/30/2022
3/29/2022
3/28/2022
3/28/2022
Colors of spring on display at Smith’s Lyman Plant House and Conservatory - Springfield Republican
3/28/2022
Kylin Gao ’25: Who cares? A response to India’s Covid-19 orphan crisis - Modern Diplomacy
3/24/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: #MeToo‘s influence is paying off in Congress - Daily Hampshire Gazette
3/24/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: New lawsuits filed to challenge Texas‘ abortion ban - Ms. Magazine Online
3/24/2022
3/24/2022
3/24/2022
3/24/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Studies refute hype around new stadium in Chattanooga - Chattanooga Times Free Press
3/23/2022
3/23/2022
3/23/2022
3/23/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Dr. April Lockley answers questions about abortion pills - Ms. Magazine Online
3/23/2022
Prof. Floyd Cheung: Five techniques for better class discussions - Faculty Focus
3/18/2022
A weekend in Northampton: Visit SCMA - The Weekender
3/18/2022
3/18/2022
Prof. Loretta Ross: On expressing unpopular views - Washington Post Magazine
3/16/2022
Kara Jackson ’23: National Youth Poet Laureate - PBS NewsHour—Brief But Spectacular
3/14/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Texas Supreme Court ends challenge to state’s abortion ban - Ms. Magazine Online
3/11/2022
Amy Bloom MSW ’78: Writer reflects on her husband’s suicide - Fresh Air with Terry Gross
3/11/2022
Prof. Kate Soper: ‘Songful Sublimity’—A review of ‘The Understanding of All Things’ - The New York Times
3/10/2022
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ’02: Six Pakistani women transcending borders with their work - The Express Tribue
3/10/2022
Juliet Schulman-Hall ’22: The confining nature of climate change on incarcerated people - Ms. Magazine Online
3/9/2022
3/9/2022
3/9/2022
3/9/2022
3/4/2022
Prof. Sergey Glebov: On the Russian invasion of Ukraine - Daily Hampshire Gazette
3/4/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Minor league baseball, hockey teams seeking Covid-19 relief - Spectrum Bay News 9
3/4/2022
3/4/2022
Prof. Sabina Knight: China’s Minority Fiction - World Literature Today
3/3/2022
An update on Yale‘s efforts to increase diversity in investments - Yale Daily News
3/2/2022
Smith president stepping down in 2023 - WWLP - Channel 22
3/2/2022
Smith College president Kathleen McCartney announces plan to step down - MassLive/Springfield Republican
3/2/2022
Smith President Kathleen McCartney is stepping down in 2023 - Daily Hampshire Gazette
3/2/2022
Smith President Kathleen McCartney will step down in 2023 - Associated Press
3/2/2022
What Luma Mufleh ’97 has planned for her Smith commencement address - Daily Hampshire Gazette
3/2/2022
3/2/2022
3/2/2022
3/2/2022
Tallulah Costa ’25 and Prof. Carrie Baker: Speaking out - Daily Hampshire Gazette
3/2/2022
3/2/2022
3/2/2022
3/2/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Pyeongchang still awaits its Olympic payoff - The New York Times
February 2022
2/23/2022
2/23/2022
Prof. Annaliese Beery: The romantic temptation of the monogamous prairie vole - Scientific American: 60-Second Science
2/23/2022
2/23/2022
2/23/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: How New York bankrolls horse racing with billions - Albany Times-Union
2/23/2022
2/23/2022
2/23/2022
President Kathleen McCartney: Five steps new presidents should take - Inside Higher Ed
2/21/2022
Nora Cothren ’12: Boosting inclusion in youth hockey - Philadelphia Inquirer
2/21/2022
Kylin Gao ’25: Beijing, Beijing - L.A. Progressive
2/17/2022
Wendy Sherman ’71 leads Biden administration’s strategic dialogue with Russia - NPR Morning Edition
2/17/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: The ERA is ratified. Now what? - Ms. Magazine Online
2/17/2022
Prof. David Howlett: What happens when Mormon women are called to ordained ministry? - The Christian Century
2/16/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: SoFi Stadium went up, and then everything changed - Sports Illustrated
2/16/2022
2/16/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: On Cincinnati’s Super Bowl - Cincinnati Business Courier
2/16/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: For China, hosting the Olympics is worth every billion - The New York Times
2/16/2022
2/16/2022
2/16/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Pregnancy and childbirth endanger women’s lives and health - Ms. Magazine Online
2/14/2022
Smith's new ‘no-loan’ program offers enhanced support for students - Chronicle of Higher Education
2/14/2022
Elim Chan ‘09: On her BSO debut, and her ‘thunderbolt moment’ at Smith - WCRB Classical Music with Laura Carlo
2/14/2022
2/9/2022
More bean burgers, less beef - Inside Higher Ed
2/9/2022
2/9/2022
2/9/2022
2/9/2022
2/9/2022
2/9/2022
2/9/2022
2/7/2022
2/7/2022
2/7/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: Beijing Olympics will not bring windfall - Marketplace Morning Report
2/7/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: On Olympic ideals and authoritarian rule - Associated Press
2/7/2022
Meeting students’ extra needs - Inside Higher Ed
2/3/2022
Making a college degree more affordable - Business West
2/3/2022
Prof. Joel Kaminsky: The value of jokes in Jewish-Christian dialogue - Christian Century
2/2/2022
2/2/2022
Prof. Kate Queeney: Forging a partnership between Amherst College and Amherst schools - Daily Hampshire Gazette
2/2/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: The ERA is now the law! - Ms. Online
2/2/2022
2/2/2022
2/2/2022
January 2022
1/28/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Medication abortion for university students - Academic Minute
1/27/2022
1/27/2022
1/27/2022
Ten Museum Must-See‘s: Maya Lin at SCMA - Boston Globe
1/27/2022
Prof. Steven Heydemann: ‘Zombie diplomacy‘ - Brookings
1/26/2022
1/26/2022
1/26/2022
Prof. Loretta Ross: Before Roe - The New York Times
1/26/2022
1/26/2022
1/26/2022
1/26/2022
Prof. Ruth Ozeki ’80: Listen to the voices only you hear - New York Times: Ezra Klein Podcast
1/18/2022
Profiling Hanya Yanagihara ’95 - The New Yorker
1/18/2022
President Kathleen McCartney: Here's what could happen if we canceled all student loan debt - Marketwatch: Best New Ideas in Money
1/18/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: On medical abortions at UMass - Boston.com
1/18/2022
1/18/2022
Marissa Hochstetter fights for survivors’ rights - People Magazine
1/18/2022
1/14/2022
1/13/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: On telemedicine abortion - Ms. Online
1/10/2022
Prof. Tom Litwin: Changing car culture for a livable planet - Daily Hampshire Gazette
1/10/2022
Prof. Loretta J. Ross: Is there room for redemption in our cancel culture? - PBS: Amanpour & Co.
1/10/2022
1/10/2022
Hana Yanagihara ’95: An audience of one - New Yorker
1/7/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: On new ownership for Real Salt Lake - Salt Lake Tribune
1/7/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: On student athletes and the Supreme Court - WHMP -- The Bill Newman Show
1/7/2022
1/7/2022
Prof. Mary Harrington: Why gray winter days may make it harder to work out - Daily Hampshire Gazette
1/6/2022
Susan Sorrells ’68: The queen of the desert - The New Yorker
1/5/2022
1/5/2022
1/5/2022
Prof. Andrew Zimbalist: MLB's lockout partially stems from the fact that the league is a monopoly - NPR "All Things Considered"
1/5/2022
1/5/2022
1/5/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: The anti-abortion movement's digital strategies to track pregnant women - WMC News and Features
1/5/2022
Prof. Carrie Baker: Telemedicine means better access to early, safe abortions - Provincetown Independent
1/5/2022
1/5/2022
1/5/2022
1/5/2022
1/2/2022
1/2/2022
Leela de Paula ‘23: Smith's $500K donation solidifies its relationship with city - Daily Hampshire Gazette