Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Garth Burke '17 works on a project during Portfolio Design with Assistant Professor of Art and Architecture Jeffrey Blankenship in Houghton House. Burke is a current scholar for the Lewis H. Elliott Memorial Scholarship.

Lea Mattran '18 reads aloud to a group of students at Lafayette Intermediate School in Waterloo, N.Y., during an America Reads' Read for the Record event.

William Fletcher '20 helps a student with his homework during Read for the Record at Lafayette Intermediate School in Waterloo, N.Y.

Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Montrose Streeter (back row center left) and President Mark D. Gearan (center) pose for a group photo with members of the New York Association Chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha at the President's House.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Josh Newby leads a discussion during “Physical Chemistry I” in Napier Hall on Halloween. Each of the chemistry faculty members encouraged students to wear costumes for the holiday.

HWS Chief Photographer Kevin Colton captures a campus view from the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

Tyler Fuller '18 and Katie Allen '18 work on a physics lab in Eaton Hall with Coordinator of Undergraduate Laboratories Leon Webster.

Students and faculty from the Colleges' Sustainable Living and Learning Community program, a specialized First-Year Seminar focused on sustainability education and community building, gather for a photo at the new solar farm.

Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies Thomas Drennen leads a tour of the Colleges’ new solar farm, featuring more than 7,600 solar panels, each rated at 330W, or sufficient to operate up to 10 overhead fluorescent lights at full solar input.

Madeline Conroy '20 captures the Demarest Hall spire through autumn leaves.

Assistant Director of Admissions Zach Reed '15 and Associate Director of Admissions Maren Serafine chat outside the Thomas Poole Family Admissions Center.

President Mark D. Gearan leads the ribbon-cutting ceremony during the grand opening of the newly established HWS solar farm. In attendance were the owner of the property Pat Malcuria (second from left) and Geneva Town Supervisor Mark Venuti (third from left).

President Mark D. Gearan offers his thoughts on the upcoming Presidential Election to students taking Modern American Conservatism with Professor of Political Science Iva Deutchman.

David Lahmani ’17, Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies Eric Lynch and French Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Roxana Nabati make crepes during “Crêpe Franco-Fête” in the Global Perspectives Theme House.

On Thursday, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held to celebrate the completion of the HWS solar farm in the Town of Geneva. The site is one of two solar projects that together will represent the largest solar installation at any institution of higher education in New York State.

Students walk through fall foliage on the way to class.