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13 May 2025From Novice Breaks to Worlds: HWS Debate’s Remarkable Year
Top-tier tournaments, standout novice performances and a world-class Round Robin define an exceptional season for HWS Debate.
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13 May 2025Lisa Kaenzig to Deliver Keynote Address at Baccalaureate
Hobart and William Smith graduates and their families are invited to attend annual interfaith celebration and opportunity for reflection on the eve of Commencement.
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12 May 2025Nancy Gibbs to Deliver 2025 Commencement Address, Receive Blackwell Award
Former Editor in Chief of TIME magazine, presidential historian and Harvard professor, Nancy Gibbs to offer the 2025 Commencement address on May 18.
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9 May 2025Iasenza to Play Professionally in France
Forward on the three-time national champion Hobart Statesmen hockey team Matthew Iasenza '25 will play with the Dogs de Cholet.
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8 May 2025Quint '21 Named a 2025 Knight-Henessy Scholar
Meg Quint ’21, current medical student at Stanford School of Medicine, earns prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholarship to pursue a master’s at Stanford, advancing groundbreaking work in LGBTQIA+ and gender affirming care, intersex health justice, homeless health access, harm reduction, sexually transmitted infection prevention and plastics and reconstructive related surgical education and research.
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8 May 2025A Legacy of Service: Janeciah Cunningham '25 Joins the U.S. Army
Inspired by her grandmother’s military career, HWS student-athlete will carry forward a family tradition of service.
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7 May 2025HWS Named Top Peace Corps Producer
HWS is once again named to the Peace Corps’ list of top volunteer-producing colleges and universities.
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7 May 2025Breslin '27 Wins Annual Physics Competition
Project by Henry Breslin ’27 examines Planck temperature Derivation and earns top honors in the 24th annual Albert Holland Physics Lecture Competition.
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Phillips '62 Honored in Avenue of Heroes

Dr. Steven J. Phillips '62, a retired lieutenant colonel of the United States Army Reserve who served two tours during the Vietnam War and held a career in medicine, was featured in the Coronado Eagle and Journal's Avenue of Heroes.

Q and A with Gregory '07 in The Daily Record

Peter J. Gregory '07, a partner at Goldberg Segalla, answers questions on real estate law for The Power List in The Daily Record.

McNally '96 Named Bellow Scholar

The Association of American Law Schools’ Committee on Lawyering in the Public Interest has recognized Laura McNally ‘96 for her efforts in uncovering the rampant “tangled title” problem plaguing estate law.

Jacobsen in Yahoo! News on Bill

Professor of Economics and former HWS President Joyce Jacobsen talks in a Yahoo! News article about how President Trump’s recently passed spending bill will impact women with children.

Wattenberg '55, L.H.D. '75 Profiled in the Washington Examiner

The late Ben Wattenberg '55, L.H.D. '75, a speechwriter for President Lyndon Johnson and later a political commentator and author, is remembered in a biography in the Washington Examiner.

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