中心 and initiatives make it possible for you to put your education into practice. Through hands-on learning and real-world projects, you will gain the skills and experience needed to thrive in an ever-changing world.
Explore what it means to express yourself through poetry, be inspired through readings by renowned poets, and craft your own verses at The Boutelle-Day 诗歌的中心.
Blend your cross-disciplinary knowledge and experiences in support of environmental decisions and actions with the Center for the Environment, 生态设计, 和可持续性.
Assess the interconnectedness of people, 地球, and profit when developing your solutions to pressing problems through the Conway Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center.
Unlock your leadership capacities through workshops, 项目, and talks geared toward creating equitable and thoughtful leaders at the Wurtele中心 for Leadership.
在实践中
Blackout Poetry Project
每年, The Boutelle-Day 诗歌的中心 and 设计思考 Initiative invite the Smith community to reimagine an iconic work of literature one page at a time, encouraging artwork and erasure poetry techniques as a means of transforming the work.
我的全球故事 is a collaborative initiative between the Lewis 全球研究 Center and Reflective Practices. 每年一月, international students opt in to an off-campus storytelling retreat, during which they reflect and talk about home, about their paths to college, and their Smith experiences.
Housing In/Justice and Tiny House Dreams
学生 in Evangeline Heiliger’s first year seminar learned from the Wurtele中心 for Leadership how to create effective teamwork dynamics and polished, creative group research presentations. They put theory into practice by forming research groups, establishing norms, setting expectations, and presenting their projects to the class.