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24 February 2025Jump ’27 and Tran ’25 Explore Opportunities at Women in Math Conference
Last week, students offered a colloquium, reflecting on their experience at the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics.
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9 January 2025HWS Debate Competes at World Championship in Panama
Hudson Chou '27 and Fairooj Suhita '27 competed at the World Universities Debating Championship in Panama City. Sandeep Tissaaratchy ’26 and Director of Debate Daniel Schonning ’16 served as adjudicators at the tournament.
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6 December 2024Amplifying Voices: Fontana ’26 Takes the Helm of Podcast
Kahlil Fontana ’26 is the new host and producer of the “Behind Success” podcast. First guest: Superbowl Champion Ali Marpet ’15.
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12 September 2024Elvis Njomo ’25 Coordinates Guest Concert Series
As part of an independent study, Elvis Njomo ’25 is working with the Department of Music to coordinate the Guest Concert Series featuring world artists.
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19 May 2024Human Connections Across Difference
Peace Corps Director Carol Spahn urged students to take intentional action to create “authentic personal, curious, human connections made across difference” during her Commencement address at Hobart and William Smith on Sunday.
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8 March 2024HWS Model African Union Delegates Receive Highest Honors
During the International Model African Union Conference, members of the HWS MAU team received the conference’s most prestigious recognition.
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19 February 2024Astronomy Research, Problem-solving and Jazz: Five Questions with Biruk Nardos Abebe ’25
Physics and computer science double-major Biruk Nardos Abebe ’25 reflects on his recent presentation at the American Astronomical Society conference in New Orleans.
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4 January 2024Nguyen ’25 Interns with TikTok
Preparing for a career in marketing, Van Nguyen ’25 gained valuable experience during an internship with TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance.
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7 December 2023Four HWS Debaters to Compete at Worlds
Kayla Powers ’24, Fairooj Suhita ’27, Lamia Nur Rahman ’26 and Sandeep Tissaaratchy ’26 will compete at the World University Debate Championship in Vietnam. Linh Tran '26 will serve on the tournament's tab team and Director of HWS Daniel Schonning '16 will be an adjudicator.
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17 August 2023Tissaaratchy ’26 Shares Sri Lankan Unheard Voices
NGO internship focused on rewriting the narrative of Black July, a period of rioting and massacres in 1983 that triggered Sri Lanka’s civil war.
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16 August 2023Students Catalogue Public Art at HWS
Two students explored the history of the Colleges’ public art this summer.
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4 August 2023Mindfulness in Action
This summer, Jamachukwunma Atumonyogo ’26 explored the mental health benefits of meditation and mindfulness.
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9 May 2023With Genuine Welcome and Deep Care, Newly Dedicated Adams Intercultural Center Opens
The HWS community gathered for a ribbon-cutting to celebrate the opening of the newly renovated and expanded Adams Intercultural Center.
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9 May 2023Physics Competition Explores Teleportation, Uranium
Students presented their research during the Physics Department’s annual oratory competition, established to encourage and further the art of physics discourse and to memorialize former HWS President Albert Holland.
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18 April 2023Multicultural Networking Conference 2023
An exciting lineup of alums are returning to campus to participate in the Multicultural Networking Conference on Saturday, April 22.
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6 April 2023Yonten ’23 Receives Princeton in Asia Fellowship
Tenzin Yonten ’23 has earned the prestigious 2023 Princeton in Asia Fellowship that will begin in September. Before then he will present research in Ohio, study the Holocaust in Germany and Poland, and conduct research in Japan.
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27 March 2023Boston Globe: "It was a character game"
“I thought there was a lot of character out there. The experts will say it was an offensive game, a defensive game, but to me, it was a character game,” Coach Mark Taylor tells Boston Globe.
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27 March 2023Statesmen win National Championship!
The Statesmen defeated Adrian 3-2 in the NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey National Championship contested at Raymond J. Bourque Arena on Sunday, March 26.
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26 March 2023Statesmen Face Adrian for National Title
For the first time in program history, the Hobart College ice hockey team will compete for a national title. The Statesmen will take on third-ranked Adrian College with the national championship trophy on the line on Sunday, March 26.
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22 March 2023Hobart Hockey Advances to the Frozen Four
The Hobart ice hockey team scored three goals in 35 seconds late in the second period, propelling them past seventh-ranked Curry College 5-1 in an NCAA quarterfinal contest. With the win, the Statesmen are now 27-2-0 this season.
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16 March 2023HWS Champions the National Novice Tournament
Lamia Nur Rahman ’26 and Sandeep Tissaaratchy ’26 won first place at Novice Nationals held at the University of Rochester. The pair ranked higher than Duke, Cornell and Stanford Universities, and individually were ranked among the top speakers of the tournament.
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9 March 2023Márquez ’23 Interns with U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Marce Márquez ’23 reflects on international relations, squash, volunteerism and her internship at the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.
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7 March 2023Statesmen Earn First-Round Bye
The Hobart College hockey team earned one of four first round byes in the 12 team NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Championship. The Statesmen earned the New England Hockey Conference's automatic bid.
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6 March 2023Representing Guinea, Gambia and Uganda at Model African Union
HWS students traveled to D.C. for the 21st annual Model African Union, with delegates representing nations, arguing at committees and gaining invaluable experience in the world of foreign policy.
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28 February 2023Debate Team Continues a Winning and Jam-Packed Semester
HWS Debate has consistently proved a formidable opponent in regional and international tournaments, and there’s no signs of stopping.
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22 February 2023France and Nepal for Padnos Scholars
Last fall, Thomas Perich ’23 conducted research on the representation of historical figures in Aix-en-Provence, France, while Tenzin Yonten ’23 studied in Nepal and gained experience in the legal industry.
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18 January 2023Special Winter Exhibit
The HWS community is invited to view the Special Winter Exhibit on display at the Provenzano Student Art Gallery and enjoy the work of Yijun “Eugene” Cao ’22, a studio art and chemistry double major, and Zhengrui “Mary” Wei ’23, an architectural studies and environmental studies double major.
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6 January 2023Brain Signals, Robotics and Research
Robotic testing of brain models plays an increasingly important role in developing medical treatments for neuromotor conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, as well as robotic prosthetics for patients managing paralysis and amputation.
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5 January 2023Historic Debate Performance at World Championships
At the world’s premier collegiate debate competition, HWS debaters finished with one of the team’s best performances ever at the tournament.
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21 December 2022HWS to Compete in World’s Largest Debate Tournament
Four students are preparing for their trip to Spain, where they will compete against 540 debaters at the annual World Universities Debating Championships.
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15 December 2022Describe Yourself in Three Words
At the end of their first semester at the Colleges, members of the Classes of 2026 reflect on who they are now and who they want to be.
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3 November 2022HWS Hosts Debate Championship
In the debate world, Hobart and William Smith has a reputation for hosting elite tournaments. This esteem was built over years of hosting the annual HWS Round Robin, an international tournament of champions, began by members of the Colleges’ 2006 debate team.
Read More12 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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14 July 2022Cohen ’81 Donates HWS Debate Case
Keith Cohen ’81 says the well-rounded, liberal arts education he received as a student at HWS helped make him a successful trial attorney.
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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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9 July 2021From Scotland to the U.S., Wilson '24 Reflects on HWS International Student Experience
Rising sophomore Reece Wilson '24 answers questions about the first-year student experience.
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