Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Dusk falls over the Scandling Campus Center.

Eban Goodstein, director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, discusses How to Get a Job Saving the Planet: Sustainability Leadership Careers in NGO’s, Business and Policy” in the Geneva Room.

Assistant Professor of History Janette Gayle speaks during the Perspectives on Police Violence panel discussion with Associate Professor of Political Science Paul Passavant (left), Advocacy Program Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights Nahal Zamani (right center) and Founder of Law Enforcement Psychological Associates Dr. Jay Supnick (right) in the Geneva Room.

Eduardo Peñalver, the Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law at Cornell University, talks with Professors of Philosophy Steven Lee and Scott Brophy’78, P’12 during a reception in the Common Room in Scandling Campus Center. Peñalver visited campus as part of the Colleges’ observance of Constitution Day.

Led by Associate Professor of Geoscience Nan Arens, Mikhail Fischer '17 and Caroline Carr '17 present their research on fossil leaf floras during the 2016 Geological Society of America conference in Denver, Colo.

Students walk into the Warren Hunting Smith Library on a sunny Wednesday afternoon.

Eduardo Peñalver, the Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law at Cornell University, delivers a talk titled Varieties of Diversity in Constitutional Lawmaking in the Sanford Room of Melly Academic Center. The talk was part of the Colleges’ observance of Constitution Day.

Austin Gallegos '17 hosts a barbecue at Odell's Village to celebrate the weekend.

________ bumps cars with student Mark Curiel '17 at the annual summer carnival in Geneva.

________ explores a gem on the Arts Campus; it is a small bridge hidden in a cluster of tall grass that have overtaken the small pond between the Katherine D. Elliott Studio Arts Center and the Carriage House.

Keshihito Murphy '17 places liquid nitrogen into the matrix isolation system to keep it cool. She is currently working with Assistant Professor of Chemistry Josh Newby on a summer research project that is focused in understanding the intermolecular forces between molecules.

Natalie Booth '18 analyzes samples of extracted DNA from milkweeds in one of the biology labs in Eaton Hall. She is working along side students Sarah Benyo '18 and Meghan Cloutier '19 under the guidance of Assistant Professor of Biology Shannon Straub this summer researching the genomic make up of the milkweed family.

Mark Curiel '17 takes aim with his last dart in hopes to win the blue gorilla above.

__________ plays catch with Benny Calderon '16 on the docks of the Bozzuto Boat House during a clear summer day.

Special guest Dr. N. Lynn Eckhert P’99, professor of family medicine at the University of Massachusetts, joined Professor of Women’s Studies Betty Bayer’s class to discuss Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell. The first woman to receive her degree as a Doctor of Medicine, Blackwell graduated from Hobart’s precursor Geneva Medical College in 1849. Eckhert wrote a one woman play about Blackwell titled “A Lady Alone.” The class took place, appropriately, in the Blackwell Room.

Davente Gilreath, of Garth Fagan Dance, leads a master lesson for students in Assistant Professor of Dance Kelly Johnson’s class in the Deming Theatre of the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.