Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Eros Cabrera '19 sings karaoke during the After Dark Series event in the Cellar Pub.

Katherine Burns '18, Ashley Testa '19, Jerlin Garo '17, Emily Spraggs '17, Madeline Boles '17 and Emma Herbst '18 pose for a photo during the the After Dark Series event in the Cellar Pub.

Former Cuban Ambassador to the European Union Carlos Alzugaray Treto and Associate Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies Juan Liebana pose for a photo following Treto's lecture. Liebana will lead a new, HWS short-term abroad program in Cuba in May.

Associate Professor of Physics Steven Penn shares news with the campus community on his research that has detected gravitational waves. Penn is a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Research Project, funded by the National Science Foundation.

Members of the HWS community watch the National Science Foundation press conference in Washington, D.C. as the founding scientists of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Science Collaboration share the first results of their discovery.

In his Lansing Hall lab, Associate Professor of Physics Steven Penn welds the suspension of a coating sample to a mirror that he is researching for the next generation of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Penn pioneered the use of fused silica for LIGO.

Students gather in the Sanford Room for a screening of this year's first presidential debate.

Area Coordinator for Jackson, Potter and Rees Halls Noah Lucas13 (right) and Sustainable Living and Learning Community (SLLC) teaching assistant Alyssa Kelly19 help students make homemade granola bars. The event was organized and led by SLLC Resident Assistant Alexandra Cirra '17.

The Spanish Conversation Table holds its weekly meeting from 12:30-1:30 p.m. on Wednesday in the Cellar Pub. Consisting of students, Spanish teaching fellows and faculty members, the group discusses a variety of topics allowing participants to practice their Spanish language skills.

Writing and Teaching/Learning Specialist Susan Hess discusses best practices for writing essays for graduate school, study abroad and internships during Career Chat in the Office of Intercultural Affairs.

Amelia Zhao '17 works under the direction of Kerik Cox, associate professor of plant pathology at Cornell Universitys New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, to investigate bacteria (Erwinia amylovora) that is responsible for the disease known as Fire Blight.

Amelia Zhao '17 and Mei-wah Choi '16 analyze leaves from an apple tree while researching Fire Blight at Cornell Universitys New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y.

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.

Christian Thiim '17 and Sam van Etten 17 complete an assignment on the various meanings of community as part of ENV210: Qualitative Methods and the Community, a class taught by Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Robin Lewis.

Students in Invasion Ecology traverse a field at Ganondagan State Historic Site where they observe the restoration effort to remove invasive Pale Swallow Wort and return the native grasslands for bird habitat. The class is taught by Associate Professor of Biology Meghan Brown.

Students stand among the Golden Rod during a lab for Invasion Ecology with Associate Professor of Biology Meghan Brown.