Hobart and William Smith Colleges

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Students and faculty stop for a group photo near Oakley, Kansas. Mammatus clouds can be seen in the background on the underside of a supercell thunderstorm anvil.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Caitriona Carey 18 performs during the HWS String Ensemble concert.