Hobart and William Smith Colleges

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Associate Professor of Russian Area Studies David Galloway talks to students in his first-year seminar Eat Like a Slav: Russian Food and Culture.

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.

Students watch their hand-crafted robots traverse an obstacle course as part of Robotics CS336 with Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science John Vaughn P08 (right) in Eaton Hall.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Etin Anwar instructs students in her Gender and Globalization in the Muslim World class on the Quad.

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.

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

Visiting Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies Craig Talmage discusses project ideas with students during Social Innovation for the Entrepreneur in Coxe Hall.

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.

Ryan Montbleau '19, Sarah Walters '19, Soren Anders-Macleod '18 and Elleanor Smith '18 gather for a photo in Nuremberg City Hall during a reception honoring the 70th anniversary of the international war crimes trial proceedings. The four are leaders of the HWS Human Right and Genocide Symposium and went to Nuremberg with Associate Professor of Religious Studies Richard Salter 86, P15 to attend the 10th International Humanitarian Law Dialogs.

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