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School September 16, 2024

Smith SSW Commencement 2024: Daring and Radical Imagination

Beautiful threads linked many of the words of wisdom shared by SSW Commencement 2024 speak…

2024 M.S.W. graduates laugh at the conclusion of the 2024 commencement ceremony.

Alumni September 06, 2024

Turning Pages, Changing Lives: The Magic of Bibliotherapy

In 2020, Emely Rumble, M.S.W. ’10, LCSW, was settled in a career she loved as a sc…

Portrait of Emely Rumble

Alumni September 04, 2024

East Coast Sunrise to West Coast Sunset: Decolonizing Mental Health

JD Fuller, M.S.W. ‘99, LCSW, doesn’t sleep much. She wakes up early to commute t…

Portrait of JD Fuller

Alumni August 20, 2024

Smith SSW Creating Connections and Community

The Smith College School for Social Work Office of Alumni Engagement has partnered with ar…

Creating Connections and Community Smith College School for Social Work

School August 05, 2024

Celebrating Commencement 2024

Smith College School for Social Work will confer 120 master’s degrees and 10 doctoral de…

Paradise Pond at Smith College surrounded by lush greenery.

M.S.W. June 28, 2024

M.S.W. Students Challenge Controversial Therapy in NASW-MA Publication

Since last fall, Kyleigh Murchison and Maya Silvia, both M.S.W. ’24, have been mee…

Cartoon rendering of notebook papers, a keyboard and mouse on top of a circular table.

Ph.D. June 26, 2024

M.S.W. and Ph.D. Students Co-Present Indigenous Practices in Psilocybin Use in Oaxaca

When Jose Hernandez, M.S.W. ’16 and current Ph.D. candidate isn’t at his day job, a co…

Jose Hernandez leans on a table smiling

School May 03, 2024

Alexa Owen, M.S.W. '24: Mindful Reflections on Practicum

A current SSW student shares their perspective from the year between second and third summer.

Alexa Owens, M.S.W. '24 smiles from the screened-porch of a log cabin.

M.S.W. April 12, 2024

Sex in the Dark: To illuminate a tricky subject, wellness interns turn off the lights

Smith students giggled as they hurried through the rain and into the packed Graham Auditor…

M.S.W. student Sarah Chrystler led a campus glow-in-the-dark Q&A session around sex education.

Letters from the Dean February 26, 2024

An Update from the Dean: Our Continued Work

My dear community,The days are finally starting to lengthen, bringing glimmers of much-nee…

Dean Marianne Yoshioka smiles at the camera wearing a pink top and a dark grey blazer.