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17 February 2022Bicentennial Kick Off Celebrates Our Beloved Community
200 years after Trinity Parish supported Bishop John Henry Hobart’s vision to found a college, the Hobart and William Smith community returned to Wall Street to mark our Bicentennial.
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1 February 2022Stressed? Mindfulness Can Help, Says New HWS Research
New scholarship by faculty and student researchers examines stress, anxiety and the habit of replaying the past — and where mindfulness can help.
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27 January 2022New Competition Tackles Real World Problems
Stephen L. Cohen ’67 Leadership Case Competition Established at HWS.
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22 January 2022Sustainability in Freiburg
David Pessin ’23 is a 2021 recipient of the Julius G. Blocker ’53 Fellowship, which enables students to study abroad in Germany while researching a cultural studies project of their interest.
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17 January 2022HWS Debate's Epic Fall Semester
And by epic, we mean epic! Harvard, Yale and Oxford were no match for HWS.
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13 January 2022Dahouda Discusses Ivory Coast Civil War and Post-War Socio-Economic Recovery in “Le Patriote” and “Lebanco”
French Professor Kanaté Dahouda examines how the politics of ethnic identities led to a Civil War in the Ivory Coast in 2010.
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10 January 2022Mulligan ’07 to Judge Musk-funded XPRIZE Competition
A senior scientist at Amazon, Jamey Mulligan ’07 is serving on a panel of 12 judges for the four-year XPRIZE competition for carbon removal, funded by Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation.
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5 January 2022HWS Students Aid College Bound High School Students
The FLX College Leader Program is a 10-week course coordinated by HWS students who work remotely with high school juniors and seniors in Wayne County guiding them through the college search and application process. The program prepares HWS students to be peer leaders while providing direct support to high school students currently applying to college.
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4 January 2022McMahon ’23 Receives Internship at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Payton McMahon ’23 has landed an internship on the subscription finance team at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), a multinational banking and financial services company based in Japan.
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20 December 2021From HWS to Med School
Jerlin Garo ’17, a first-year medical student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, reflects on the research projects and internships she had at HWS.
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17 December 2021Road to World War II
In Sins of the Fathers, Stern and co-author Alan A. Winter continue the story of Adolf Hitler’s political rise and the road to World War II.
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10 December 2021Franks '72 Creates Richard L. 'Doc' Heaton - Edward P. Franks, M.D. Professor of Human Rights, Genocide, and Social Justice
A gift from Dr. Edward Franks '72 endows a permanent fund in memory of Professor of Religious Studies Richard Heaton, in recognition of the late professors contributions to awareness of human rights.
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10 December 2021Mathematics Research Students Win Awards
The Department of Mathematics summer Research Experience for Undergraduates provided students with close faculty mentorship, research opportunities and insight about graduate study in the field.
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9 December 2021Donors Step Up to Fund Repairs to The William Scandling
Thanks to the generosity of the Fred L. Emerson Foundation and other benefactors who value the work HWS performs both on campus and in the community, the Colleges’ floating laboratory will continue its educational voyage.
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9 December 2021New Gift from Stephanopoulos Grows HWS Photo Collection
A donation from journalist George Stephanopoulos adds approximately 700 new items to the Collections of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
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3 December 2021The Hopes and Dreams of Tomorrow's Architects
Ben Tesler '23 is the 2021 recipient of the A Fund scholarship.
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23 November 2021Plant Evolution and Water Quality
Students present at the annual Rochester area science conference.
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23 November 2021HWS Honored as Leading Gilman Scholar Producer
The Gilman International Scholar program, facilitated by the U.S. State Department, recognized HWS among the top producing institutions of the past 20 years.
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23 November 2021On the Frontline of PTSD Studies
Stephanie Wells 10 is exploring new ways to treat PTSD, understand why patients drop out of treatment, and how to increase engagement in PTSD treatment.
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20 November 2021The Trap at the Poland-Belarus Border
In The Nation, Professor of Political Science David Ost describes the border tensions that have left migrants caught between the autocratic-leaning governments of Poland and Belarus.
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18 November 2021Fantastic Ekphrastic
Associate Professor of English Kathryn Cowles forthcoming manuscript is a 2021 Poetry Society of America award winner.
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17 November 2021Announcing the New HWS Rowing Center
Excavation and construction began this summer at the site of the Miltenberger and Bennett-Hooper Rowing Center.
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15 November 2021Masses in the Stellar Graveyard
More than 30 new black hole events are detailed in a new report from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA international scientific collaboration, which includes Associate Professor of Physics Steve Penn.
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12 November 2021ROC Your Global Future Hosts Rick Steves
Travel writer Rick Steves will be a featured speaker during the annual ROC Your Global Future Conference hosted by Hobart and William Smith Colleges and other Rochester-area colleges.
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11 November 2021Honoring HWS Veterans: Frelinghuysen '69
New Jersey Globe profiles Rodney Frelinghuysen '69 and his family's legacy of service.
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11 November 2021Whitaker '73 Receives Top Honor for Journalistic Excellence
Trustee Bill Whitaker '73, L.H.D. '97 is the recipient of the Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism from the International Center for Journalists.
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10 November 2021Voting Up at HWS
New data shows impact of HWS Votes on increasing student-voter turnout in last years presidential election.
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9 November 2021Professor Hood Highlighted on the History Channel
Clifton Hood, the George E. Paulsen '49 Professor of American History and Government, is featured in the History Channels The Engineering that Built the World series.
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8 November 2021Birding Club Takes Flight
HWS welcomes the HWS Birding Club to campus, a college chapter of the National Audubon Society.
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5 November 2021Meet the Newest GSA Scholars
The latest recipients of the Geneva Scholarship Associates fund are beginning to explore a variety of academic fields and interests during their first semester.
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