Smithies spend summer teaching in Belize

Ed-ventures graduation ceremony. Photo courtesy of The San Pedro Sun (www.sanpedrosun.com).

This summer, six Smithies traveled to Belize for the Coral Reef Ed-ventures program. The program, which began in 2000, teaches local children about the ecological importance of the Belize Barrier Reef.

The program is sponsored by Smith College’s Environmental Science & Policy Program [...]

Marine conservation in Madagascar

On Thursday, April 12, Merrill Baker ’03 will present a lecture—Fluid Relations: Marine Conservation and Gendered Resources Use in Madagascar— as part of the Environmental Science and Policy program’s “Lunchbag” series.

Merrill was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to work in Madagascar in 2003.  She is now a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley [...]