Insight

Under an innovative initiative called Achieving Excellence in Mathematics, Engineering and Sciences (AEMES), Smith reaches out to students who have expressed interest in those fields to increase their chances of success. AEMES scholars are selected as first years and remain in the program for the first two years of their college experience. During those years, the scholars conduct research with a faculty advisor and participate in a peer mentoring program. Here's what two members of the research team have to say about the lab work they are doing with Laura Katz, Elsie Damon Simonds Professor of Biological Sciences.

In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that struck down in Springfield, Massachusetts in June 2011 and affected an estimated 40 percent of the population, a class of Smith engineering students this fall used this extreme of nature as a springboard for their study of engineering mechanics.

Using solar panels to generate electrical power at the site of a soon-to-close landfill is a good way to capture new revenue.

Smith Summer Research Fellows (SURF) help build new trails at the MacLeish research field station.

The Changing Forest: As an invasive pest spreads among hemlocks and the trees begin to die out, Smith researchers look at what that will mean to the water cycles in hemlock and deciduous forests of New England.

The Changing Forest: As an invasive pest spreads among hemlocks and the trees begin to die out, Smith researchers are looking at what that will mean to the soil composition of the forest floor and the water cycles in hemlock and deciduous forests of New England.