Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Comedian Alison Grillo entertains the crowd at the Cellar Pub on Friday. Grillo has performed on NBC’s Last Comic Standing and has been named by The Advocate as one of “Seven LGBT Comics You Should Not Have Missed in 2011.”

A dusting of snow covers the Quad as students walk to and from classes.

Students make babkallah, a combination of challah and babka, during Hillel's Jewish Cooking 101 session in the Abbe Center for Jewish Life.

During Hillel's Jewish Cooking 101 session, students gather for a group photo in the Abbe Center for Jewish Life.

Savannah Reed ’16, Min Kyung Jeon ’16, Xin Xu ’18 and Beatrice Barber ’16 help Ed Pollack ’55 install the Audubon to Warhol: Two Centuries of American Art on Paper exhibition in the Davis Gallery at Houghton House. The collection runs through Friday, April 22.

Hobart Dean and Professor of Philosophy Eugen Baer P'95, P'97 leads a discussion on how metaphors can highlight certain aspects of complex concepts during his Semiotics class.

Namita Neerukonda '17 measures compounds for her research regarding anti-cancer compounds in the lab of Associate Professor of Biology Patricia Mowery.

Carly Simmons 16 looks at the details of a wooden stool during the class Process and Design: Furniture.

Students participate in a performance in the Bristol Field House weight room as part of a class with Professor of Dance Donna Davenport. The piece was directed by Mariana Bell '16 and Hannah Lippincott '17.

Rachel Catlin '16 and Professor of Biology James Ryan pose in the Eaton Hall microscope lab. Catlin, Ryan and seven members of the Classes of 2015 authored a paper, Using Cultured Mammalian Neurons to Study Cellular Processes and Neurodegeneration: A Suite of Undergraduate Lab Exercises, that was published in the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education.

Students change classes on Wednesday afternoon.

Studio Technician Patrick Kana 12 tests a dark walnut bar stool created by Ross Burke 16 during the class Process and Design: Furniture in the Katherine D. Elliott Studio Arts Center.

Registrar Peter Sarratori leads a discussion during the LGBTQ & Allies group meeting in the Creedon Room of the Scandling Campus Center. LGBTQ & Allies group is composed of faculty and staff who are working toward improving the campus culture around LGBTQ issues.

Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Biology at SUNY Brockport Clay Williams discusses the impact of human activities on freshwater ecosystems. The event was part of the Aquatic 2016 Spring Seminar Series hosted by the Finger Lakes Institute.

As a guest of College Democrats, Geneva City Councilor At-Large Mark Gramling and host Dan Bristol '17 have a conversation about the relationship between HWS and Geneva.

Assistant Professor of Art and Architecture Jeffrey Blankenship and Adjunct Faculty for the School for American Crafts at RIT Will Tracey talk to students in the class Process and Design: Furniture.