Paradise Pond The Botanic Garden The Clark Science Center Sage

Paradise Pond

Created before the founding of the

College, the pond has been a xture

in the lives of Smith students for over

100 years. The pond is surround-

ed by trails for walking and running

that lend themselves to scenic views

year-round. In the winter months, the

pond freezes and is used for skang.

In warmer weather, Students borrow

boats from the Boathouse and can

elect to take outdoor skill classes on

kayaking, canoeing, and sculling. The

boathouse also houses the Smith

Outdoor Program, which plans a vari-

ety of day and overnight recreaonal

trips year-round which are open to all

Smith students.

The Botanic Garden

The Bortanic Garden of Smith Col-

lege fosters engironmental and social

jusce through teaching, and learn-

ing about plants, people and place.

The Lyman Conservatory contains a

public exhibion gallery, classrooms,

and laboratories, as well as work and

greenhouse space for student use.

Architecturally, it is a cluster of twelve

dierent environmentally controlled

greenhouses which contain over

2,500 species of plants illustrang the

vegetaon of dierent climates. The

botanic garden has secons to illus-

trate plant classicaons and habitat.

As you pass through the gardens you

will nd labeled plant specimens from

all over the world. In fact, every plant

on campus is labeled.

The Clark Science

Center

McConnell Hall, Sabin-Reed, Burton

and Bass Hall comprise the Science

Center. The center of scienc study

on campus, the Clark Science Center

fosters collaborave, cross-disciplinary

research and integraon into the lib-

eral arts curriculum. This mulbuilding

complex of classrooms and laborato-

ries houses faculty oces, telescopes

and a rooop observatory, the spaal

analysis lab, a machine shop, and the

Young Science Library, one of the

largest college science libraries in the

United States. The centralizaon of

departments creates a focus for sci-

enc energy on campus. More than

one-third of students major in sciences,

engineering, or mathemacs.

Sage Hall

Sage contains classrooms, oces and

20 pracce rooms, as well as an elec-

tronic music studio. It is also home to

Sweeney Concert Hall, a performance

space that seats more than 600 and is

used for faculty and student recitals,

lectures and concerts. Earle Recital

Hall, located on the lower level of Sage,

is a smaller classroom theater which

seats up to 120 and is ideally suited for

inmate performance occasions.

The Athlec

Complex

Ainsworth Gym, Sco Gym and Indoor

Track and Tennis Facility. Within these

three buildings are two gymnasia, a

rowing team room, a small scheduled

weight room, and the Olin Fitness

Center with over 100 state-of-the-art

weight and cardiovascular machines.

Students have access to a six-lane, 25

yard pool, ve all-wood squash courts,

a 24-foot climbing wall, dance stu-

dios, four doubles tennis courts, and

a 200-meter six-lane track. Over the

Lamont Bridge, across the Mill River

are 25 acres of playing elds, includ-

ing a lighted eld for evening games,

soball elds, 12 lighted outdoor cush-

ion-coated tennis courts, a 5,000-me-

ter cross-country trail and an eight-lane

400-meter track.

Schacht Center for

Health and Wellness

Home to Smith College Health Services

which provides accessible, quality

medical care, mental health care and

inclusive wellness educaon to Smith’s

diverse student populaon.

Mendenhall Center

for the Performing Arts

Mendenhall contains the Werner

Josten Library, a performing arts li-

brary that houses extensive music,

theater and dance collecons, includ-

ing a wide assortment of scripts and

musical scores and more than 52,000

recordings. Also inside the center are

the Berenson Dance studio and the

theater’s bell tower, with eight bells

that are rung on special occasions. The

theater building consists of rehearsal

rooms and the main theater, Theater

14, which seats 460, and the smaller

Hallie Flanagan studio theater which

permits experimentaon through the

use of movable seats.

Ford Hall

Home to the Picker Engineering Pro-

gram, computer science, chemistry,

biochemistry, and molecular biology

departments, Ford is a compelling, vis-

ible statement of Smith’s public iden-

ty as a women’s college with strong

programs in science and engineering.

Ford Hall is named in honor of the lead

donor to the project, the Ford Motor

Company Fund. With its emphasis on

sustainability and energy eciency

through numerous design, construcon

and operaonal iniaves, this LEED

Gold cered building is at the fore-

front of energy-ecient architecture.

Neilson Library

The intellectual heart of the campus,

Neilson Library advances and cele-

brates learning. A “learning hub” for

campus, Neilson oers classrooms,

quiet study and reading rooms as well

as expanded space for collaboraon,

socializing and high-tech work. It fea-

tures a Digital Media Hub with

mulmedia equipment and studio

space for recording digital content;

GIS and gaming labs; and a large,

mulfunconal Learning Commons

where students can work with research

librarians, instruconal technologists

and wring and quantave learning

specialists.

Seelye Hall

Seelye, one of the historic academic

buildings on campus, houses class-

rooms, faculty oces, and a computer

resource center. Humanies and Social

Science majors call this building home.

College Hall

The main administraon building, it is

home to the oces of the President,

Student Financial Services, the Reg-

istrar, Disability Services, Dean of the

College, Vice President for Campus Life,

and the Class Deans.

Brown Fine Arts

Center

Home to the art deparment, the Center

includes Hillyer Hall, Hillyer Art Library,

and the renown Museum of Art. It

contains technologically state-of-the-

art studios and classroom spaces to

teach art history, architecture, and a

vast array of studio art media including

computer graphics, painng, photogra-

phy, book arts, sculpture and all man-

ner of printmaking.

The Smith College Museum of Art

houses a spectacular collecon of

objects and painngs from nearly every

period of art history. The collecon’s

parcular strength is in the 19th and

20th century European and American

Art. Original works of Copely, Degas,

Picasso, Monet, Rodin and many other

masters are featured. The Smith mu-

seum is oen ranked among the top

college and university art museums in

the country.

Haield Hall

This building houses many of the

college’s foreign language department

oces and classrooms. Smith students

can take courses in a wide range of

languages including Arabic, Chinese,

French, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Jap-

anese, Korean, Lan, Portuguese,

Spanish, as well as a variety of other

language courses taught within the

Five College Consorum.

Wright Hall

Home to the humanies and social

sciences departments, this building

houses faculty oces and a conference

lounge. Wright also contains a 400-

seat lecture hall that hosts lms and

guest speakers. On the main oor, the

Boutelle-Day Poetry Center sponsors

readings by renowned naonal and

internaonal poets and a library includ-

ing books from many poets who have

given readings at Smith. Wright Hall

houses the Center for Environment,

Ecological Design and Sustainability,

the Jandon Center for Community En-

gagement, and the Lewis Global Stud-

ies Center.

John M. Greene Hall

This is the largest auditorium on cam-

pus. It seats over 2,000 and hosts

college assemblies, concerts and guest

speakers. Recent guests have included

Roxanne Gay, Tan France, Laverne Cox,

and Tarana Burke. The bus stop in front

of JMG is where students catch the

Five College Bus to Amherst, Hamp-

shire and Mount Holyoke Colleges and

UMass Amherst. Students can take

classes, parcipate in organizaons,

aend events and socialize on any of

the campuses.

Campus Center

This facility is a major hub for student

life on campus. It includes a recepon

area, the college bookstore, the post

oce, numerous lounges, a game

room, a TV room, a performance

space, a community art gallery, meet-

ing rooms, student organizaon oces,

the radio staon (WOZQ), a resource

room free to all students, and an ex-

tended-hours café and coee bar. You

will also locate the Oce of Student

Engagement and the Student Govern-

ment Associaon (SGA) here.

The Lazarus Center

for Career Development

Located in Drew Hall, this center is an

invaluable resource for life and work

planning. Here, students and alumnae

can parcipate in workshops, seminars

and panel discussions, as well as gain

help with wring résumés, networking,

and nding internships and summer

employment. Inside is an extensive ca-

reer resource library. The Center is also

the home base for Praxis: The Liberal

Arts at Work, a unique program provid-

ing guaranteed internship funding for

every Smith student.

The Helen Hills Hills

Chapel

The Chapel is the home of the Center

for Religious & Spiritual Life, a hub of

diverse cultural and religious learning

and expression, spiritual development,

and community engagement. The

Chapel sponsors over a dozen student

religious organizaons, and weekly

events range from Buddhist meditaon

to Shabbat dinner.

The Quadrangle

The Quadrangle is the most concentrat-

ed area of student housing on campus.

Smith’s 41 houses range in size and

style. Depending on which house you

are assigned, you may have between

10 and 100 housemates. Each house is

student-governed and has a sense of

community at its core. In most houses,

students from all four classes are rep-

resented. Each house on campus also

has a living room, a study room, a full

kitchen or kitchenee, and a laundry

room.

The President’s

House

The ocial residence of every Smith

College president since 1920, this

house is the venue for a variety

of events hosted by the president

throughout the year. Students are

invited for tea and Mountain Day kicks

o here!

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