Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Associate Professor of Art and Architecture Kirin Makker snapped this photo of HWS students studying abroad in New Zealand.

A group of 13 HWS students studied abroad to Havana, Cuba for a three week trip this summer to learn about Cuban history and culture. Here, the group poses with the Cuban flag on the Malecón in Vedado.

In the Warren Hunting Smith Library, Victoria Tori Malamas 20 works on a project for her Principles of Physics class with Assistant Professor of Physics Ileana Dumitriu.

The Venerable Tenzin Yignyen begins the sand mandala dismantling ceremony on the shores of Seneca Lake. Created every semester as part of the Tibetan Mandala class, the mandala is assembled out of different colored sand by both Tenzin and his students. In keeping with Buddhist tradition, the mandala is then disassembled in a ritual ceremony before the sand is brought to the shore of Seneca Lake and dispersed in the water.

Leah Connerty '17 and Madeline Devereaux '17 use optogenetics to trigger neural circuits in the brains of larval fruit flies during class with Professor of Biology James Ryan.

Yuxi Liu 18 prepares to test fly moths in a flight tunnel as part of her summer internship at the New York State Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y.

Professor of Education Charlie Temple brings his Comparative and International Education class outside for a discussion of Amanda Ripley's book, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way.

Students in Anatomy and Kinesiology with Professor of Dance Cadence Whittier (center, green shirt), pose for a photo with the dance departments anatomy skeleton, affectionately known as Joe, in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

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.

Second-year writing colleague Donovan Hayden '19 (left) works with Aman Cumberbatch '20 on an assignment for Cumberbatch's class Face to Face: IInterrogating Race in the United States and South Africa with Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies James McCorkle.

Students in Visiting Assistant Professor Kirby Benjamins Adaptive Re-Use Advanced Architecture Studio sit below their design project that was on display in Houghton House.

Professor of Womens Studies Betty Bayer and her students discuss the life of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive her degree as a Doctor of Medicine. Blackwell graduated from Hobarts precursor Geneva Medical College in 1849. The class took place, appropriately, in the Blackwell Room.

Professor of Economics Thomas Drennen discusses how the new HWS solar farm operates on overcast days with students in Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Darrin Magees class on energy.

In Warren Hunting Smith Library, Gabrielle Eure 17 works on a project for her class Introduction to Architectural Design II with Assistant Professor of Art and Architecture Jeffrey Blankenship.

Associate Professor of History Lisa Yoshikawa speaks with students during The Asia Pacific Wars in Trinity Hall.

Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science David J. Eck explains the general structure of an operating system during CPSC 431: Operating Systems.