The Blackwell Award

In honor of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), first woman in America to receive the Doctor of Medicine degree (in 1849 from Geneva Medical College, Geneva, New York), the Elizabeth Blackwell Award is given by Hobart and William Smith Colleges to a woman whose life exemplifies outstanding service to humanity. The Award is not conferred at regular intervals but may be presented whenever a candidate of sufficient stature and appropriate qualifications is identified.

The Elizabeth Blackwell Award was first given in 1958 (at the 50th anniversary convocation of William Smith College), to Gwendolyn Grant Mellon, medical missionary, founder of Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti.

	About the Award A brief description of qualifications and of the Award's accompanying sculpture
	Past Recipients Contains a complete listing, including biographies, of Blackwell Award recipients