Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Visiting Assistant Professor of History Sarah Whitten leads a discussion during Foundations of European Society in Stern Hall.

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.

Haley Okun '18, Harry Simbliaris '17, Gabrielle Aulwes Zola '18, Kristina Weston '17 and Audrey Bates '17 launch a kite with an attached weather station at Seneca Lake State Park during a class with Assistant Professor of Geoscience David Finkelstein.

Zach Birnbaum 16, Brittany Coburn '17, Rousseau Nutter '16 and Professor of Art and Architecture A.E. Ted Aub III pour bronze for a sculpture in The Katherine D. Elliott Studio Arts Center.

Morning light reflects off the windows of St. John's Chapel on Tuesday.

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.

Participants in the Geneva Heroes program take part in a team building exercise in the Vandervort Room on Saturday.

Mary Kubinski '17, Molly Gorelick '19, Kayla Jones '17 and Hannah Brooks '17 pose for a photo in Trinity Hall. The students will attend the IMPACT Conference at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The conference is historically the largest gathering in the country of socially-engaged college students.

Theresa Lohr '18 and Sean Bright '17 recently landed coveted summer analyst internship positions at Credit Suisse in New York City where HWS Trustee Craig Stine '81, P'17 serves as executive vice chair of the Global Financial Institutions Group.

Matthew Morio '19 studies on the second floor of the Warren Hunting Smith Library.

Father Thomas P. Mull leads a Catholic Ash Wednesday service in St. John's Chapel.

Members of Geneva Heroes, a mentoring program that pairs HWS students with students from the Geneva City School District, pose for a photo in the Vandervort Room on Saturday morning.

Many of the students who work at WEOS-FM and WHWS-FM gather for a photo outside the radio station studio in the Scandling Campus Center. They are joined by Station Manager Greg Cotterill (back right).

Cecelia Foley '18, Alex Cirra '17 and Hannah Fricke '18 enjoy cotton candy in the Scandling Campus Center. The event was sponsored by Student Activities.

Shantel Carrasco '16, Ashley Bermingham '17, Alexandra Carter-Huffman '18, Kat Barry '16 and Egan Morales '17 stand before Niagara Falls on the U.S. side after attending the Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment conference with Institutional Research Officer Ron Gerrard.