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6 June 2016Groundbreaking Gravitational Waves Research Honored
The international collaboration of scientists behind the recent breakthrough discovery of gravitational waves, of which HWS Associate Professor of Physics Steven Penn is a member, has been awarded
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4 June 2016Why Do Birds Fatten Up for Migration?
Birds develop ample energy reserves in preparation for and during migration but often store more fat than they need for the journey alone. In a recent study in The Auk: Ornithological Advances, Pro
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3 June 2016Childrens Literature Course Visits Highlights
Students in Professor of Education Charlie Temples Creating Childrens Literature course attended a two-day workshop last semester at the Highlight Foundation writersR
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2 June 2016Water, Recycling and the Environment
As a summer intern with the Water Recycling Facility at WestRock in Solvay, N.Y., Ryan Ratsep 17 is developing his chemical analysis skills and his understanding of the intersection of geosc
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2 June 20162016 Distinguished Faculty Awards
On Friday, June 3, three retired Hobart and William Smith faculty members, each one a graduate of Hobart or William Smith, will be recognized with the Distinguished Faculty Award for their outstand
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2 June 2016Alum Exhibit: Your Year in Art
Your Year in Art, a special exhibition of art from the Collections of Hobart and William Smith, will be on display at Houghton House during Reunion. Representing pieces created from 1
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27 May 2016Friedman Co-Authors Frankenstein Narrative History
In Monstrous Progeny: A History of the Frankenstein Narratives, Professor of Media and Society Les Friedman and Professor of History Allison Kavey (City College of New York) trace the
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27 May 2016Platoni 74 Calls for Veterans Support
An editorial by Kathy Platoni 74, clinical psychologist and retired Army colonel, appeared in Time Magazine on April 19 titled Neglecting Fort Hood Survivors Is a National Disgrace.&#
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27 May 2016HWS on the Water
The Hobart and William Smith sailing and rowing teams have advanced to national championship events. William Smith rowing is competing in the NCAA Division III National Championship, Heron sailors
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26 May 2016Honoring Veterans at The Wall
As director of events at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF), JoAnn Waller 04 oversees the organizations commemorative tributes at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly known
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24 May 2016HWS Scholars Join Religious Studies Symposium
This week, four Hobart and William Smith faculty members are among 60 scholars participating in the international symposium, Sacred Texts and Human Contexts: Nature and Environment in World
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19 May 2016Shafer Named Signal Culture Resident
Assistant Professor of Media and Society Leah Shafer has been awarded a research residency with Signal Culture, an experimental media art collaborative, where she will spend a week developing a cla
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11 May 2016Touching the Future Awards 2016
At the Colleges 2016 Commencement ceremonies, two area teachers will be honored with the Touching the Future Award, which recognizes educators for the significant and enduring role they̵
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10 May 2016Halter 16 Awarded Drum Major for Service
At the spring 2016 Day of Service, Sophie Halter 16 was presented with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drum Major for Service award in recognition of her commitment to community
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6 May 2016Celebrating William Smith Students
Steeped in history, the annual Moving Up Day ceremony recently brought together members of the HWS community on Stern Lawn to recognize the achievements of William Smith students in academics, serv
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5 May 2016cIcu Honors President Gearans Service
This month, the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities in New York (cIcu) presented Hobart and William Smith Colleges President Mark D. Gearan with its Distinguished Service Award.
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29 April 2016Moving Up Day 2016
The annual Moving Up Day ceremony brings together members of the HWS community to recognize the academic, service and leadership achievements of William Smith students and celebrate each class as t
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29 April 2016Beyond Borders in South Africa
Seven students participating in the Beyond Borders global leadership program will travel to South Africa this summer to expand on their study of critical issues facing Africa and the United States.
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21 April 2016Trias Welcomes Award-Winning Guest Speakers
Talented and versatile award-winning writers fiction and nonfiction writer Rachel Marston and poet Timothy OKeefe will visit Hobart and William Smith Colleges as the next gue
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19 April 2016The Essence of Soul
Each year during Black History Month, Sankofa, the HWS Black Student Union, hosts a campus-wide event called Harlem Nights. In addition this year Sankofa presented an entire week of celebrations ca
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18 April 2016Atmospheric Science Research in the Spotlight
HWS geoscience students and faculty recently presented on several atmospheric science research projects at the 41st Annual Northeastern Storm Conference (NESC) hosted by the Lyndon State College lo
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13 April 2016Eighth Annual Senior Symposium
Encapsulating a wide range of disciplines, the eighth annual Senior Symposium will bring together HWS seniors and MAT candidates to share their diverse academic experiences with the HWS and Geneva
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13 April 2016Students, Alums Publish in Neuroscience Journal
Students from a neurobiology course taught by Professor of Biology James Ryan recently had a scientific paper detailing their research on how to prepare and study neuronal cell cultures published i
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12 April 2016Final Spring Fisher Center Lecture
Concluding the 2015-16 speaker series sponsored by the Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men, Marcela Romero Rivera and Rob Maclean will explore the theme Gender, Climate, and the Ant
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12 April 2016HWS Day 2016
The Colleges annual social media extravaganza #HWSDay, a celebration of all things Hobart and William Smith, will take place on Wednesday, April 13. Members of the HWS community, including c
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5 April 2016Dunn Edits Four-Volume Reader on African Politics
Bloomsbury Academic recently published African Politics: Critical and Primary Sources, edited by Professor of Political Science Kevin Dunn. The four-volume reference collection focuse
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4 April 2016Dobkowski Presents at Abrahamic Religions Conference
Professor of Religious Studies Michael Dobkowski recently presented on the differences and parallels between Islamophobia and anti-Semitism at the conference, Abrahamic Religions: Challenges
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31 March 2016Gearan Discusses Institute of Politics in Harvard Gazette
On the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard Gazette offered a retrospective on the IOPs legacy of promoting public service, featuring re
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31 March 2016Narratives of Displacement Symposium
In response to the global refugee crisis, the German Area Studies Symposium: Narratives of Displacement will debut at Hobart and William Smith, bringing the issue to the forefront with dialogue and
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30 March 2016Vietnam Tribute Features Bozzuto 68
Thomas S. Bozzuto 68, vice chair and chair elect of the HWS Board of Trustees, plays a prominent role in the upcoming Maryland Public Television documentary and associated traveling exhibit,
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28 March 2016Presidents Forum Welcomes Donna Brazile
Veteran Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile will join Hobart and William Smith as the next Presidents Forum Series speaker on Monday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Albright Auditorium. B
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28 March 2016Irish History, Culture and Service in Galway
For English and public policy double-major Stephanie Kenific 17, the allure of Galway, Ireland was its music and literary culture. Galway has an incredible amount to offer in terms of
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16 March 2016Weissman on Prison Reform
Marsha Weissman, founder and executive director of the Center for Community Alternatives, will lead a discussion on her efforts to reform school disciplinary and prison policies on Thursday, March
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11 March 2016Fisher Center: Todd on Indigenous Feminism
Zoe Todd will deliver the second talk in the Fisher Center spring series, Indigenizing the Anthropocene: Prairie Indigenous Feminisms and Fish Co-Conspirators, on Wednesday, March 30.
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10 March 2016Alger Adams 32 Dinner Celebrates Triumph
The 15th Annual Alger L. Adams 32 Academic Excellence Award Dinner recently brought together members of the Hobart and William Smith community in recognition of the achievements of students
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1 March 2016Hebb Awarded Grant for Astrophysics Research
Assistant Professor of Physics Leslie Hebb was recently awarded a $25,000 grant from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) to support her innovative time domain astrophysics resea
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29 February 2016Human Rights and Genocide Symposium 2016
The Hobart and William Smith Human Rights and Genocide Symposium is returning with its Spring 2016 Lecture Series focusing on the theme HWS Students Take Action! The event kicks off o
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26 February 2016Laird Published on Lake-Effect Precipitation
Professor of Geoscience Neil Laird recently published an article, Climatology of Lake-Effect Precipitation Events over Lake Tahoe and Pyramid Lake, in the American Meteorological Soci
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25 February 2016DAgata 95 Interviewed in Guernica
In February, Guernica magazine published What We Owe History, an interview with John DAgata 95, professor of English and director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at th
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24 February 2016Fisher Center: Yusoff Explores Human Geology
The 2015-16 speaker series sponsored by the Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men will continue its examination of the theme Gender, Climate, and the Anthropocene on Wednesday,
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24 February 2016Shafer Edits Journal on Media and Digital Humanities
The most recent volume of Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier, co-edited by Assistant Professor of Media and Society Leah Shafer, takes on the overlapping concerns of media studies and digital humaniti
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19 February 2016Philbrick Yadav in Washington Post
On the fifth anniversary of the Yemeni uprising, Associate Professor of Political Science Stacey Philbrick Yadav reflects on that countrys protracted civil war on the Washington Posts
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17 February 2016HWS Launches Inaugural Hackathon
Providing students with a unique opportunity to address complex issues through social innovation, the Centennial Center for Leadership (CCL) and the Entrepreneurial Studies minor program will co-sp
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11 February 2016Gravitational Waves Detected 100 years after Einsteins Prediction
LIGO Opens New Window on the Universe with Observation of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes HWS Associate Professor of Physics Steven Penn Played Major Role in Mirror Substrate and Coa
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10 February 2016Penn Provides Important LIGO Update
Associate Professor of Physics Steven Penn will give a public presentation at Hobart and William Smith Colleges on Thursday, Feb. 11 as part of an important update regarding the search for gravitat
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28 January 2016Cuony Scholarship Supports Aspiring Teachers
Hobart and William Smith students from the local community who are in the Colleges Teacher Education Program (TEP) have the chance for a $10,000 scholarship opportunity thanks to the generos
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28 January 2016Dean Interviewed ahead of New Book Publication
In her new book, Crowds and Party (forthcoming Feb. 9 from Verso Books), Jodi Dean, who holds the Donald R. Harter 39 Professorship of the Humanities and Social Sciences, argue
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28 January 2016FLI Redoubles Focus on Invasive Species
Thanks to funding from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service given to the Finger Lakes Lake Ontario Watershed Protection Alliance, the Finger Lakes Institute (FLI) at Hobart and William Smith has adde
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27 January 2016A Decade of Days on the Hill
For its 10th anniversary, the annual Day on the Hill program offered not only a strong lineup of panels, speakers and site visits, but also new events that proved to be both timely and illuminating
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27 January 2016Sigma Chi Honors Falchuk 93, L.H.D.14
Brad Falchuk 93, L.H.D.14, the Emmy Award-winning co-creator, executive producer and director of American Horror Story, Scream Queens and Glee”
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21 January 2016Methylmercury Research Begins
Hobart and William Smith Colleges recently purchased a Brooks-Rand MERX-M methylmercury analyzer, an instrument that measures the concentrations of methylmercury in organisms collected from lakes a
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21 January 2016Mackie 77 Receives Best Lawyer Ranking
Thomas A. Mackie 77, managing shareholder of the Boston-based environmental boutique law firm Mackie Shea, PC, was recently listed in Best Lawyers in America for Expertise in Environmental L
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20 January 2016Shafer Published in Teaching Media Quarterly
A course module written by Assistant Professor of Media and Society Leah Shafer was recently published in the winter 2015 volume of Teaching Media Quarterly. Shafers article, Progress
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14 January 2016Frishman, Singal on Obamas State of the Union
Offering their observations on President Barack Obamas final State of the Union Address, Professor of Economics Alan Frishman and Professor Emeritus of History Daniel Singal were quoted in t
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14 January 2016Hatch in End of the Rainbow
End of the Rainbow, featuring Assistant Professor of Theatre Chris Hatch, opens this month at the Kavinoky Theatre, a professional theatre on the campus of DYouville College in
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13 January 2016Ost on Poland and Power in The Nation
In his Jan. 8 article in the The Nation, Regime Change in Poland, Carried Out From Within, Professor of Political Science David Ost examines Polands ruling reigning political p
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13 January 2016Leadership Institute 2016
With a focus on critical dialogue and social justice, the Centennial Center for Leadership (CCL) will host the sixth annual Leadership Institute (LI) from Jan. 16 through 18. This year, LI will bri
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12 January 2016Sutton, Metz Present at Wood Library
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology James Sutton and Assistant Professor of Geoscience Nicholas Metz will deliver a pair of guest lectures at the Wood Library in Canandaigua, N.Y., as
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8 January 2016Traders Magazine Honors Rosely 92
In December, Joyce Cupaiuolo Rosely 92 earned the Traders Magazine Wall Street Women Leadership Award for professional excellence in the historically male-dominated financial industry. With
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7 January 2016Geoscience in the Bahamas
Two years after a winter field study in the Bahamas, the HWS Geoscience Department is returning to the island of San Salvador for GEO 299: Carbonates Ancient and Modern-The Bahamas, w
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7 January 2016HWS Expands Big Brothers, Big Sisters Mentorship
Following this falls recruiting and information session, Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Greater Rochester has four new volunteer mentors from Hobart and William Smith who have been paired with
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24 April 2015HWS Award Five Honorary Degrees
Hobart and William Smith Colleges awarded five honorary degrees to individuals who, by virtue of their significant service toward improving the public good at the local and national levels, are pow
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19 January 2011College Bowl Victory: 50 Years
Fifty years ago, on Jan. 21, Hobart and William Smith Colleges defeated Baylor University 245 to 140 in the nationally-televised G.E. College Bowl. The HWS team had previously beaten Beloit College
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30 March 2008HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES JOIN AMERICAN COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS CLIMATE COMMITMENT
At noon on Friday, Sept. 14, President Mark Gearan signed the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, making Hobart and William Smith Colleges a charter member of an effort to reduce emissions of gases responsible for global warming.
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