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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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7 May 2025Newest Members Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
Students join the nation’s oldest honors society celebrating excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. 
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2 May 2025Scholarship Day of Donors 2025
In its third year, Scholarship Day of Donors garnered donations from 525 HWS community members, contributing over $270,000.
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2 May 2025Professors Burns and Cummings to be Honored with Distinguished Faculty Awards
Former faculty recognized for their inspiration and dedication.
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1 May 2025HWS Earns National Recognition for Workplace Excellence
In a Newsweek poll, Hobart and William Smith has been honored for an organizational culture of leadership, integrity, compensation, belonging and work-life balance.
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1 May 2025Rickey Foundation Bolsters Support for Science Scholarship
In conjunction with Further Together: The Campaign for Our Third Century, the Brenda and Dave Rickey Foundation adds $100,000 to scholarship fund for chemistry majors.
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1 May 2025From the Office of the President: Remembering Professor Mary Gerhart
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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.

Gibbs' Commencement Speech Highlighted in NY Times

Former TIME Editor in Chief, presidential historian and Harvard professor Nancy Gibbs' L.H.D. ’25 HWS Commencement address is highlighted in an article by the New York Times analyzing the themes of this year's graduation speeches.

Jacobsen Featured in FL Times on Tariffs

Professor of Economics and former HWS President Joyce Jacobsen speaks in the Finger Lakes Times on the impact of Walmart raising its prices from tariffs enacted under President Donald Trump.

Doctoral Candidate Tanquary '17 Receives Graduate Student Teaching Award

Nicole Tanquary ’17, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at Dietrich College, studies rhetorics, political discourse and public accountability.