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26 October 2022Expect the Unexpected
HWS Theatre will open the 2022-23 season on Nov. 3 with Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) by Greg Allen.
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26 October 2022Christie and Carville Talk Politics
During the Bicentennial weekend’s Stern Family Forum, two political veterans shared their insights on the 2022 midterms, the issues animating voters, and strategies for effective campaigns, governance and political cooperation.
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26 October 2022Gearan Launches Voices of Democracy Podcast
The inaugural episode features former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and political commentator and strategist James Carville LL.D. ’13, P’17.
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26 October 2022Making the Student Experience the Best it Can Be
In 2020, David Wilson P’24 and Lisa Lexa P’24 watched as their daughter Frances Wilson ’24 missed the final months of her senior year in high school and the celebrations it entailed. Prom, graduation, sports banquets — all canceled. They wondered with trepidation what Frances’ first year of college would look like.
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24 October 2022Announcing the Alger Adams '32 Intercultural Center
Thanks to Chair of the Board of Trustees Craig Stine ’81, P’17 and his wife, Kathy, the Colleges’ new Intercultural Center will bear the name of the Rev. Dr. Alger L. Adams ’32, the first Black man to graduate from Hobart College.
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20 October 2022Unvarnished America
Described as “one of the most original choreographers on the downtown dance scene,” (Village Voice) Bessie Award winning NYC choreographer Jane Comfort has been creating innovative work that bridges movement and text, dance and theatre, and the personal and the political since 1978. Comfort’s choreography addresses contemporary and social issues with compassion and wit.
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20 October 2022Behind the Curtain View
In advance of the HWS Theatre Department's production of the neo-futurist play Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind by Greg Allen (running Nov. 3, 4, 5), New York Neo-Futurist founding member and current co-Artistic Director Rob Neill will present a talk titled “Storytelling, Neo-Futurism, and Devised Theater” on Friday, Oct. 21 from 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. in the Gearan Center Room 228.
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19 October 2022Creating One Final Mandala
The Venerable Tenzin Yignyen will create his final sand mandala for Hobart and William Smith as part of Hobart College’s Bicentennial Celebration.
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18 October 2022Celebrating the Military Service of HWS Alums
Hobart and William Smith have a long connection to the United States Armed Forces, dating back to the founding of Hobart College in 1822 with early trustees serving in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 and students serving not long after the College’s founding.
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14 October 2022Geneva 2030 Aims “Back to the Future”
During the annual meeting for Geneva 2030 and Success for Geneva’s Children, program highlights celebrated the engaged citizenship and philanthropy that have had an impact on literacy, high school graduation rates, school, college and career readiness.
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13 October 2022Domestic Violence Talk
Author and activist Linda Dynel will give a public talk on intimate partner violence.
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13 October 2022Documenting Athens, Greece
For nearly a decade, Visiting Assistant Professor in Media and Society Julia Tulke has been documenting political street art in Athens, Greece. Her research has received international acclaim.
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12 October 2022Veterinarian Mentor
Matt Brown ’24 found a role model in Veterinarian Jonathan Wilkerson ’95, P'26 while completing an internship in Philadelphia this summer.
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12 October 2022HWS Debate’s Strong Season Opener
At the Cornell IV Debate Tournament, HWS Debate proved they’re more than ready for another epic semester.
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12 October 2022New Staff to Tackle Non-Native Species in the Finger Lakes
The Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (Finger Lakes PRISM) is a collaborative program designed to address the threat of invasive species. Housed within Hobart and William Smith Colleges’ Finger Lakes Institute (FLI), the program is one of eight across New York that focus on managing invasive species, developing detection programs, employing response efforts, providing education programs and outreach, and working with communities.
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11 October 2022Tapper Fund Advances Student-Faculty STEM Research
Over the past year, Professor of Chemistry Christine de Denus and her research group have made significant headway in identifying molecular wire candidates, which may one day replace silicon chips in small electronic devices. Meanwhile, students across STEM disciplines pursued collaborative research projects through the Colleges’ summer science programs.
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7 October 2022Campbell '18 Promoted at Mathematica
In her new role as data analytics developer supervisor at Mathematica, Katherine Campbell ’18 oversees a team of six employees who do data analysis and evaluation, primarily in labor and education fields, while she also performs data cleaning, analysis and programming.
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6 October 2022HWS Expands Posse Partnership
Ten years after Hobart and William Smith began its partnership with Posse students from Los Angeles, the Colleges are expanding its partnership with Posse to welcome students from Chicago.
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4 October 2022HWS Votes Looks to Triple Voter Participation Ahead of Mid Terms
On National Voter Registration Day, HWS Votes was out in full force encouraging people to register to vote.
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4 October 2022Day of Service Joins with San Francisco Alums
On campus, the fall Day of Service will bring students into the FLX community for a day of volunteerism. In conjunction with the event, alums in the San Francisco Bay Area will work at a food pantry.
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30 September 2022Crow Awarded Research Fellowship
Associate Professor of History Matthew Crow has been awarded a residential research fellowship by the Omohundro Institute at the College of William and Mary for his study of the influence of the Renaissance and Reformation on the Enlightenment and Age of Revolutions, and on the origins of the United States.
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29 September 2022Governor Chris Christie, James Carville and Bill Whitaker Headline Fall Stern Family Forum
As part of Hobart’s Bicentennial celebration, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and political commentator and strategist James Carville LL.D. ’13, P’17 will join the HWS community for a panel discussion moderated by Emmy Award-winning 60 Minutes Correspondent and HWS Trustee Bill Whitaker '73, L.H.D.'97.
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23 September 2022Vincent ’83 Commits $50K to IC Renovation
The renovation of the Intercultural Affairs Center received a boost from former HWS president and current Talladega College President Gregory J. Vincent ’83.
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23 September 2022Simons-Barrientos ’21 Heads to The University of Southern California for Public Health
This fall, Ferdy Simons-Barrientos ’21 is pursuing a master’s in public health at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.
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23 September 2022HWS Aquatic Science Joins Geneva High School
Geneva High School students will dive into aquatic science under a new program based at Hobart and William Smith.
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22 September 2022Dobkowski Gives Talk at Jewish Book Festival
Professor of Religious Studies Michael Dobkowski spoke on mortality and the Holocaust in conversation with author Dara Horn at the Rochester’s Jewish Book Festival.
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22 September 2022HWS Ranked 4th in the Nation for Service
For the sixth year in a row, Hobart and William Smith Colleges are among the top five U.S. liberal arts institutions for service, according to Washington Monthly’s annual rankings.
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22 September 2022Critical Lenses, Clear Pathways
Provost and Dean of Faculty Sarah Kirk previews the Colleges’ academic outlook for this year and beyond, new programs, priorities and the unrivaled interdisciplinary, residential education that students find at HWS.
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22 September 2022Cohen ’67 Donates to Colleges, Creates Endowed Fund
Psychology Research, Internships, Leadership and Athletics will benefit from gift from Dr. Stephen L. Cohen ’67.
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22 September 2022HWS Theatre Announces a Thoroughly Unpredictable 2022-2023 Season
HWS Theatre has announced plans for a full season return to their home in McDonald Theatre of the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.
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