Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies Courtney Wells addresses the audience during the opening night of the fifth annual Tournées Film Festival held at the Smith Opera House on Tuesday. The festival kicked off with a screening of May Allah Bless France.

Led by Assistant Professor of History Matthew Crow and Associate Professor of English Rob Carson, first-year students visit the New Bedford Whaling Museum and Mystic Seaport as part of the First-Year Seminar Moby-Dick.

Paper lanterns created by students in Associate Professor of Art and Architecture Stan Mathews' class illuminate the hallway of the Katherine D. Elliott 66 Studio Arts Center.

Samantha Shaffner '17 endures a dragon attack during rehearsal for the HWS Theatre Department's fall production of She Kills Monsters, directed by Assistant Professor of Theatre Chris Woodworth.

Assistant Professor of Economics Gul Unal talks to students in her class in Stern Hall on Thursday.

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.

Professor of Media and Society Linda Robertson meets with Gabriella Goodwin '19, a student in her Introduction to Social Documentary class. Goodwin created a three-minute segment that highlights the impact that music has on learning.

Students walk by Coxe Hall on the way to class.

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.