Professor Jon Caris, Director of the Smith College Spatial Analysis Lab, presented to a group of local Peninsula Bay Area alums and their guests us at Channing House in Palo Alto, educating us on his work in drones, the history of drone usage at Smith College and throughout the world, and developing a drone code of ethics at Smith.

We invited all Bay Area alums to join us for this virtual faculty speaker event: Using AI to Learn the Laws of Nature presented by Smith College Professor Luca Capogna, Professor of Mathematics & Statistics; Department Chair of Mathematics & Statistics.

This year’s special guest was Brent Durbin, associate professor of Government, who came to share his research on how the 21st-century big data revolution is affecting politics and social change.

The Smith College Club of the Peninsula was so fortunate to welcome Professor of Economics, Mahnaz Mahdavi, as our spring faculty speaker.