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  • Hobart and William Smith Colleges

    16 March 2023Boucher ’22 Pursues Ph.D. at Penn State

    Colleen Boucher ’22 is pursuing a Ph.D. in neuroscience at Penn State University. Intent on becoming a professor, Boucher says she entered the program ahead of the curve, having gained research and teaching experience at HWS.

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    5 January 2023Professor Bodenlos on Being the Change

    A new book by Professor of Psychological Science Jamie Bodenlos offers practical guidance for activists to maximize their impact as agents of change.

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  • Hobart and William Smith Colleges

    22 December 2022New Streams of Thought

    A look at our innovative graduate program and three new academic minors, and examine the exciting possibilities for classroom learning, student research and future careers.

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    15 December 2022Stein Family Commits $5 Million to Integrated Science Center Project

    A generous gift from Kevin Stein ’88 and his family provides the financial foundation for a state-of-the-art building that will be the hub of scientific education at Hobart and William Smith.

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    8 December 2022Physics: The Most Mind Blowing Discipline

    Associate Professor Steven Penn teaches “PHYSX: Knowing the World,” instructing and advising first-year students on the Physics track.

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    8 December 2022Dooley Presents on Spectroscopy Imaging in Artwork

    Dr. Kathryn Dooley, a research scientist at the National Gallery of Art, presented on the use of multimodal imaging spectroscopy as the 2022 Hill-Franks Speaker in Chemistry. 

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  • Hobart and William Smith Colleges

    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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  • Jadon Layne '25

    10 August 2022Finding Autonomy: Layne ’25 Reflects on First Year at HWS

    During his first year at the Colleges, Jadon Layne ’25 jumped right in to preparing for medical school. He declared a major in biochemistry, joined the HWS EMS squad and started a position with sports medicine on campus.

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  • Alex Dwyer '23

    16 July 2022Dwyer ’23 Earns Goldwater Scholarship

    Alex Dwyer ’23 has been selected for the Goldwater Scholarship, the preeminent undergraduate award of its type in natural sciences, mathematics and engineering.

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  • Introducing the New Aquatic Sciences Minor

    7 July 2022Introducing the New Aquatic Sciences Minor

    A new minor in aquatic sciences capitalizes on the campus’ long history of limnologic research and leverages the Colleges’ location on Seneca Lake.

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  • Sipos 23 Honored by Botanical Society of America  Hobart and William Smith Colleges

    24 June 2022Sipos '23 Honored by Botanical Society of America

    Biology major Erika Sipos ’23 is one of only six students nationwide to earn a 2022 Undergraduate Student Research Award from the Botanical Society of America.

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  • Hobart and William Smith Colleges

    17 June 2022Rundlett ’22 Accepted to University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine

    Emily Rundlett ’22, who graduated cum laude with a B.S. in chemistry, will attend the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine in the fall.

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  • Hobart and William Smith Colleges

    6 May 2022Lewis '23 Conducts Research in Stockholm

    While studying abroad, Ethan Lewis ’23 is serving as a research assistant with Science for Life Laboratory.

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  • Hobart and William Smith Colleges

    4 May 2022HWS Alum and Parent Trip to Cuba

    Hobart and William Smith professors will be leading a week-long trip to Cuba, designed for HWS parents and alums.

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  • Downs ’22 Headed to Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

    27 April 2022Downs ’22 Headed to Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

    Building on his bachelor of science in biology, Garrett Downs ’22 will attend Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in the fall to earn a master of science in nursing, a prerequisite for the doctoral program.

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  • Student Scholarship the Focus of Senior Symposium 2022

    1 April 2022Student Scholarship the Focus of Senior Symposium 2022

    The Center for Teaching Learning will host the 13th annual Senior Symposium on April 15, a daylong conference where seniors and graduate students present their intellectual passions to the HWS community.

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  • Hobart and William Smith Colleges

    24 January 2022HWS to Host Feingold as ACE Fellow

    Statistical Geneticist and University of Pittsburgh Dean Eleanor Feingold joins HWS this spring.

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  • Mathematics Research Students Win Awards 5

    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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  • Donors Step Up to Fund Repairs to The William Scandling

    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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  • Plant Evolution and Water Quality 1

    23 November 2021Plant Evolution and Water Quality

    Students present at the annual Rochester area science conference.

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  • Masses in the Stellar Graveyard

    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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  • Nature's Remedy

    22 October 2021Nature's Remedy

    A labyrinth will offer the HWS community a new site for spiritual restoration.

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  • Medical Careers Start Here

    22 October 2021Medical Careers Start Here

    Why HWS is an ideal place to prepare for a career in the health professions.

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  • Widing '22 Earns Research Scholarship to Germany

    16 September 2021Widing '22 Earns Research Scholarship to Germany

    With the support of a prestigious scholarship, Charlie Widing '22 will research water purification techniques at the Technological University of Berlin this summer.

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  • Discovery During Medical Rotations

    3 September 2021Discovery During Medical Rotations

    Tyler Fuller 18 is finishing his fourth year in medical school at SUNY Upstate Medical Universitys Rural Medical Scholars Program. He completed his pediatrics, emergency medicine, family medicine

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  • Slippery Duck Theorem Wins National Mathematical Writing Award

    13 August 2021Slippery Duck Theorem Wins National Mathematical Writing Award

    A paper coauthored by Assistant Professor Jocelyn Bell won the 2021 award for best expository mathematical writing.

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  • Wagner '21 Accepts Position with Liberty Mutual Insurance

    30 June 2021Wagner '21 Accepts Position with Liberty Mutual Insurance

    Peggy Wagner '21 Lands Post at Liberty Mutual Insurance Economics major and mathematics minor Peggy Wagner '21 accepted a position with Liberty Mutual Insurance.

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  • Cultures, Aesthetics and Politics Collide in Global Video Games

    18 June 2021Cultures, Aesthetics and Politics Collide in Global Video Games

    In a new Media & Society course, HWS students explore the cultural contexts of video games and produce games of their own.

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  • HWS Awarded Nearly $50K for Finger Lakes Research

    10 June 2021HWS Awarded Nearly $50K for Finger Lakes Research

    Two new grants support HWS researchers in their exploration of harmful algal blooms, both historical and contemporary, in the Finger Lakes.

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  • Dental School for HWS Grads at Harvard, UPenn, Conn, BU

    10 June 2021Dental School for HWS Grads at Harvard, UPenn, Conn, BU

    Four recent Hobart and William Smith alums have been admitted to some of the premier dental schools in the world, including programs at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. Between his cours

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  • Amelia Smith '21

    8 June 2021Smith '21 Lands Policy Internship on Capitol Hill

    Graduating magna cum laude in biology with a minor in economics, Amelia Smith '21 has landed an internship with the House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources.

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  • Beckley '20 Earns Graduate Award from Wisconsin

    8 June 2021Beckley '20 Earns Graduate Award from Wisconsin

    A graduate student in atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ian Beckley '20 was recognized with the Schwerdtfeger Award for academic achievement.

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  • Improving Filtration for Cleaner Water

    30 April 2021Improving Filtration for Cleaner Water

    Using water pressure and a series of filters, reverse osmosis is a common method of water purification.

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  • Foisy '22 Interns at MathWorks

    30 April 2021Foisy '22 Interns at MathWorks

    Isabelle Foisy '22 begins a finance internship at the mathematics computing software company in May.

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  • New STEM Research Stipends for HWS Students

    27 April 2021New STEM Research Stipends for HWS Students

    HWS research students are not laboratory assistants; they are co-investigators into our unknown world.

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  • Lewicki '21 Earns NIH Research Training Award

    16 April 2021Lewicki '21 Earns NIH Research Training Award

    Sarah Lewicki ’21 is the recipient of a prestigious award that will support up to two years of hands-on biomedical research training at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

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  • Robitaille '21 Pursues Med School with Air Force Support

    9 April 2021Robitaille '21 Pursues Med School with Air Force Support

    The wealth of opportunity and academic rigor here at HWS have been crucial in preparing me for this next step.

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  • Pirate Plants of the Caribbean

    12 March 2021Pirate Plants of the Caribbean

    A new study led by Professor of Biology Meghan Brown documents that Cuba is home to hundreds fewer invasive plant species than expected.

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  • Hobart William Smith College

    6 January 2021Stein '88 Establishes Summer Science Research Fund

    Kevin Stein 88 has established an endowed fund to support on-campus summer science research opportunities like those he had as a student.

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  • Announcing the HWS STEM Scholars Program

    9 December 2020Announcing the HWS STEM Scholars Program

    A new program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges is designed to support more inclusion of racially and ethnically underrepresented scholars in STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

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  • The Substance (and Science) Behind the Art

    3 November 2020The Substance (and Science) Behind the Art

    From painting and literature to comedy and country music, first-year students at HWS probed the making and meaning of a wide range of artistic media.

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  • HWS Awarded NSF Grant on Evolution in Cities

    9 October 2020HWS Awarded NSF Grant on Evolution in Cities

    A new grant from the National Science Foundation will support a collaborative research project that, through a study on eastern gray squirrels, will explore the ways cities shape animal evolution.

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  • Honors Students Demonstrate Academic Rigor

    25 June 2020Honors Students Demonstrate Academic Rigor

    Twenty-eight students in the Classes of 2020 have graduated with Honors, demonstrating academic rigor and excellence in written and oral communication.

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  • Konradi '24 Interns with Dallas Mavs, Competes in Euro Lax Championship

    3 June 2020Konradi '24 Interns with Dallas Mavs, Competes in Euro Lax Championship

    As an intern for the Dallas Mavericks in 2019, Alexander Konradi '24 gained professional experience in both information technology and community relations.

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  • Hobart William Smith College

    9 January 2020Tate '23 Coaches Robotics Team

    With seven years of experience as a member and leader of FIRST LEGO League (FLL) teams, Joseph Tate '23 was a natural candidate when FLL Coach Sandra Chu decided to start a team for Geneva school children.

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  • H.I.V., Justice and the Law: Beyrer '81 in NYT

    28 August 2019H.I.V., Justice and the Law: Beyrer '81 in NYT

    Dr. Christopher C. Beyrer ’81, a past president of the International AIDS Society and an internationally renowned epidemiologist, co-authored a New York Times op-ed this month, decrying the gap between scientific understanding of H.I.V. and the attitude of the legal and criminal justice system toward people living with the disease.

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  • Polentes '21 Named NOAA Hollings Scholar

    13 August 2019Polentes '21 Named NOAA Hollings Scholar

    Jack Polentes '21 has been awarded the prestigious Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship, giving the geoscience major a paid 10-week internship with researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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  • Schrader '21 Wins Holland Prize

    16 May 2019Schrader '21 Wins Holland Prize

    Andrew Schrader ’21 was recently named the winner of the Physics Department’s 2019 Albert Holland Physics Lecture Competition, after the delivery of his presentation, “Archimedes’ Principle: What Else Will Float Your Boat?”

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  • Hobart William Smith College

    13 June 2018Stein '88 Named President, CEO of TransDigm

    Kevin Stein '88 has been named president, chief executive officer and director ofTransDigm Group Incorporated, a global designer and manufacturer of highly engineered aerospace components for commercial and military applications. As a public company, TransDigm Group today sits on the S&P 500 and is considered by Forbes Magazine to be one of the Worlds Top Innovation Companies.

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  • Hobart William Smith College

    11 June 2018Tapper '64 Funds Scientific Research

    Working closely with the HWS science faculty, fellow alums and supporters of the Colleges programs in science, Dr. Edward Tapper '64 is making dreams and opportunities for student research in the

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  • Defying the Laws of Physics and Dance

    31 May 2018Defying the Laws of Physics and Dance

    As Hobart Colleges' first dance major, Drew Scammell '18 took to the Deming Theatre stage for the final performance of his college career in April.

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  • Hobart William Smith College

    11 April 2018HWS Theatre Hosts Frame/Works Talk on Waiting for Godot

    HWS Theatre concludes the 2017-2018 Frame/Works series on Friday, April 13, with a talk by Professor of Physics Donald Spector who will present, What Waiting for Godot Can Teach Us about Multipl

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  • Hebb Advancing Exoplanet Research

    11 October 2017Hebb Advancing Exoplanet Research

    Assistant Professor of Physics Leslie Hebb is collaborating with a group of scientists from across the country on a project that improves with previously unattainable precision the ability to o

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  • Hobart William Smith College

    4 October 2017Nobel Prize Awarded for Gravitational Waves Discovery

    The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded for the historic discovery of gravitational waves, a scientific breakthrough made possible thanks to a global research team of which Professor of Physics

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  • HebbΓÇÖs Planetary Research Profiled in New York Times

    22 September 2017Hebbs Planetary Research Profiled in New York Times

    A recently published study by Assistant Professor of Physics Leslie Hebb and her colleagues has made the search for extraterrestrial life a little simpler. The study measured the radii of more than

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  • DeLuccia '15 Pursues Career in Robotics

    27 July 2017DeLuccia '15 Pursues Career in Robotics

    Luke DeLuccia '15, who got his start in robotics at HWS, is poised to play a central role in shaping the robots of the future since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania this spring with an engineering masters degree in robotics.

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  • Piersante '18 Pursues Atmospheric Research

    21 April 2017Piersante '18 Pursues Atmospheric Research

    Jeremiah Piersante ’18, a double major in Geoscience and Spanish & Hispanic studies, was recently selected to take part in the Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric (SOARS) program through the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

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  • HWS Presents at National Physics Conference

    17 April 2017HWS Presents at National Physics Conference

    Bringing the Finger Lakes to Atlanta, Assistant Professor of Physics Ileana Dumitriu, physics lab technician Peter Spacher Ph.D. and Christopher Demas ’17 recently presented their respective research at the winter conference for the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), the largest conference for physics teachers across the globe.

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  • Hobart William Smith College

    31 March 2017Miller and Students to Dispel Food Myths

    You are what you eat, but because of cryptic marketing and labeling on food products, what you're eating isn't always clear.

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  • Physics Truck Brings Experiments on Wheels

    15 February 2017Physics Truck Brings Experiments on Wheels

    Students experimented with professional physics equipment in the Food Truck for the Physics Mind on Feb. 8 and 9 outside of the Scandling Campus Center.

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  • Discovery Receives Breakthrough Prize

    3 February 2017Discovery Receives Breakthrough Prize

    Associate Professor of Physics Steven Penn is among the international team of scientists being recognized this month for their pioneering discovery of gravitational waves.

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