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On & Around Campus Outdoor Adventure Program for Classes of 2025
Incoming first-year students can start their time at the Colleges with an outdoor adventure by participating in the 2021 HWS Pre-Orientation Adventure Program.
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Students Biking 353 Miles Home
Thomas Perich ’23 sheds the pandemic year and finds freedom cycling from campus to his home in Laurel, MD.
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Arts & Culture Finding the Spotlight: Roberts ’24 Reflects on First Year at HWS
A breakout star on the HWS Theatre stage, Roberts is honing her craft, making friends, and learning to embrace independence.
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Faculty Good Morning America Profiles Professor Makker in “Making Asian American Pacific Islander History”
Good Morning America’s celebration of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who are “making history right now” features Associate Professor of American Studies Kirin Makker, an architect, artist and writer.
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COVID-19 Behind the Scenes with HWS Housekeeping
Working around the clock to provide a clean and safe learning environment.
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HWS Pride New Endowment Celebrates 150 Years of Phi Beta Kappa at HWS
A $150,000 gift from Dr. Arnold Cohen ’71, P’05.
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Athletics • On & Around Campus Winter Sports Return to HWS
The health and safety of our community comes first.
This Week In Photos
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July 17 – July 23
Blueprint Geneva Interns Juniper Asaro-Niederlitz ’22 and Katerina Yacoub ’23 work in the State Street Public Garden, as part of the nonprofit's urban garden initiative.
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Favorite Places
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Finger Lakes Region
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Summer Gathering of Classes of 2025
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Campus Beauty
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Feb 6 – Feb 12
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Oct 3 – Oct 9
HWS Soundings
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Captain Planet, JD
In the fall, Isabella Pardales ’21 will pursue her Juris Doctor at Vermont Law School where she intends to focus on environmental stewardship. After graduating summa cum laude in environmental studies and studio art, she hopes to dive deep into the complex regulatory and legal environmental challenges of energy law.
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Globe-Spanning Sandbox
Students joined the Summer Sandbox program remotely this year, from Geneva, Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York City, Washington D.C., Connecticut and Katmandu, Nepal. On July 28, they pitched their ideas for companies and nonprofit ventures to a Zoom audience of 100 people.
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Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is
Audrey Platt ’21 has landed a position at Maier Anderson, a fundraising firm that works with justice-focused nonprofits and political candidates. “I am a people person: connecting with folks, crowdsourcing our understandings, and honing how we tell stories is what I am here for,” she says.
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Agitators and Trailblazers
Dorothy H. Wickenden ’76, L.H.D. ’14 discusses “The Agitators” at the Seward House Museum in Auburn, N.Y. Wickenden’s new book tells of the intersecting lives of Harriet Tubman, Martha Wright and Frances Seward, who together shaped the national policy and attitudes toward abolition, the Underground Railroad, the early women’s rights movement and the Civil War.
HWS Making Headlines
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Inside Higher Ed Hobart and William Smith Colleges Add 12 New Sports
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Los Angeles Review of Books Race After Representation: Christine Goding-Doty and Tung-Hui Hu in Conversation
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Lockport Union Sun & Journal Obituary: Marilyn G. Harris ’54
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Inside Higher Ed Hobart and William Smith Colleges Add 12 New Sports
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Some prestigious paper probably Hobart and William Smith Colleges: Absolutely Killing it
Story Stream HWS Pride View Stream
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New Endowment Celebrates 150 Years of Phi Beta Kappa at HWS
A $150,000 gift from Dr. Arnold Cohen ’71, P’05.
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Announcing New Master of Science in Management
Beginning in fall 2021.
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From Scotland to the U.S.: Wilson ’24 Reflects on HWS International Student Experience
A Sutton Trust Scholar, Wilson is an international student from Kelty, Scotland.
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Hobart and William Smith Adding 12 Sports
plans to add 12 new sports—six for men and six for women—over the next five years.
Story Stream Covid-19 News View Stream
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Behind the Scenes with HWS Housekeeping
Working around the clock to provide a clean and safe learning environment.
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HWS Cancels Winter Sports Competition
The health and safety of our community comes first.
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Adapting Classrooms for 2020
Teaching and learning in unusual spaces.
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Just Co Vote Educates Viewers on Voting
Helpful election information from puppets.
More HWS News
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Tuesday, march 5 | 6:30pm Dinner at Sally's House
Sally is the heron. The branch is her house. Bring snacks.
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