The earliest representations we have of the crossbow date from 400 BCE, in China. By 209 BCE the Chinese army had 50,000 crossbowmen who fought with mass-produced bronze weapons. These crossbows, ...

I hope that winter break allowed you each a combination of fellowship, rest, and rejuvenation. It’s always struck me as optimistic that we begin our spring semester in the depths of the Northern ...

Euphemia Lofton Haynes was the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, which she received in 1943 from the Catholic University of America. A mathematics major at Smith, she went ...

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The 1098-T is a record of the financial information reported by Smith College to the IRS on a student’s behalf. Depending on your income (or your family’s income, if you are a dependent), whether you ...

Thank you for submitting a little love letter to Smith! We’re glad you’re celebrating Smith's 150th with us. By completing this form, you Grant Smith College permission to use your submission across ...

The symbolic vocabulary of fairy tales is interwoven throughout Sabrina Orah Mark’s book of lyric essays, Happily (Random House, 2023). A story about a loved one’s cancer treatment and its physical ...

Evie Shockley, whose latest collection suddenly we (Wesleyan University Press, 2023) was named a National Book Award finalist, emerged from Nashville’s cultural landscape to become one of America’s ...