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30 January 2025Cushman to Speak on Fish Ecology
Insight from research will guide panel during the New York Seafood Summit at Cornell AgriTech.
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31 January 2025Honoring a Legend: HWS Community Gathers for Urick Memorial Mass
Members of the Hobart and William Smith campus and alumni community joined other friends and family of the late David J Urick for the memorial Mass honoring the coaching legend at Holy Trinity Church in Washington, D.C., today.
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28 January 2025Understanding Race and Identity in the Dominican Republic
Immersive study abroad course allowed students to explore multiple aspects of life in Santo Domingo.
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31 January 2025Taylor Swift Strategy
Harvard Business Review senior editor Kevin Evers ’04 analyzes business acumen behind megastar’s career that led to her pop icon status.
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29 January 2025Shaping Perceptions, Changing Behaviors: Perkins Continues Pioneering Work in Social Norms Research
Professor Emeritus of Sociology H. Wesley Perkins shared his research regarding substance misuse among adolescents through several talks and a school resource guide.
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29 January 2025Protecting Historic Bird Colonies
For decades, HWS has been sending students to Maine through Project Puffin, continuing the work to preserve historic tern colonies.
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28 January 2025Coaching Where it All Began
The journey of HWS alumni leaders.
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24 January 2025The Karofskys Make An Unrestricted Gift of $1 Million
Rob ’89 and Ann Karofsky commit $1 million. Their gift will be directed to advances in the sciences.
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24 January 2025Exploring the Value of Purpose-Driven Careers
During winter break, HWS students learned from alumni in Boston the value of aligning core values to their work.
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23 January 2025Seeing and Feeling
Associate Professor of Psychological Science Dan Graham’s most recent research explores the connections between what people see and how they feel about what they’re looking at.
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23 January 2025Fostering Unity
HWS to host a campus event inspired by Dr. King’s vision of non-violence and community building.
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Sensational Statesmen

The Hobart hockey team was featured on News 10 to discuss their dominance in Division III, including back-to-back national championships and a 42 game unbeaten streak.

Sipher ’83 Featured in NYT on Trump and Intelligence Community

John Sipher ’83, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and former member of the CIA, examines in the New York Times how President-Elect Donald Trump could affect intelligence agencies.

Gale '69 on EVs and Deep-Sea Mining

Steven Gale '69, a senior strategic advisor at Global Foresight Strategies LLC and former senior foresight advisor at USAID, explores how electric vehicle demand is driving mineral mining on the ocean floor.

Teaching Elections On Campus

President Mark D. Gearan, Associate Professor of Politics DeWayne Lucas and Will Jones '26 were guests on "Connections with Evan Dawson" talking about the Gearan and Lucas co-taught class "Elections and Voting in America" offered this semester.