Hobart and William Smith Colleges

The Echo Group President Dan Fee '92, Ithaca Mayor and Presidential Fellow Svante L. Myrick, President Mark D. Gearan, and political strategists Mary Matalin P'17 and James Carville P'17, LL.D. ’13 talk politics across parties during a special Homecoming and Family Weekend President's Forum.

President Mark D. Gearan, Maureen Collins Zupan ’72, P’09, L.H.D. ’16 and Mary Herlihy Gearan join Rita Goldstein Ashton P'04, P'07 (cutting the ribbon) for the official dedication of the Ashton Dance Studio in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

Dance therapist Jessica Zippin ’07 leads a workshop for children in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts. Recently featured in Dance Teacher Magazine, Zippin uses dance as a therapeutic tool to help children with autism, cognitive and/or severe emotional disabilities to use their bodies to communicate their needs more effectively.

Jack Daniels P’86, GP’17, who served as Hobart football head coach from 1981 through 1986, receives a standing ovation at a dinner held in his honor during Homecoming and Family Weekend.

Subin Nepal '15 and John Remmert P'16 pose for a photo after meeting in London. Nepal currently works as a Product Analyst for Markit in London.

President Mark D. Gearan delivers the State of the Colleges address in the Vandervort Room of the Scandling Campus Center on Saturday morning.

Jordan Raivel ’20 and Alex Cottrell ’20 enjoy a view of a harvest moon from the docks of Bozzuto Boathouse on Saturday evening.

Jack Ninivaggi '20 and other Sustainable Living and Learning Community students properly sort and recycle landfill-bound waste items during a campus waste audit.

Community members join Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Robin Lewis and her ENV400: Group SIE students in weeding their garden at HWS Fribolin Farm. The vegetables will eventually be donated to the Geneva Community Lunch Program, where Lewis, her collaborator Food Systems Program Manager Sarah Meyers, and their students volunteer on a twice monthly basis as part of the Greens Growing Project, a multiyear collaboration between the Environmental Studies Program, Finger Lakes Institute, and the Geneva Community Lunch Program.

Christopher Coggins, professor of geography and Asian studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, presents “China’s Fengshui Forests and the Lineage Village Landscape” as part of the Tanaka Asian Studies Lecture Series.

Students in the First-Year Sustainable Living and Learning Community visit Casella’s recycling facility in Flint, N.Y., which sorts and bales 300 tons of recyclables per day. The program is taught by Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Beth Kinne, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Robin Lewis, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Tarah Rowse, and Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies Tom Drennen.

Students from Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Robin Lewis’ ENV400: Group SIE class host volunteers from the Geneva Community Lunch Program at HWS Fribolin Farm as part of their community service project duties.

Christopher Williams ’19 talks with Visiting Assistant Professor of German Area Studies Ashwin Manthripragada about religion in Germany during the Julius G. Blocker '53 Cultural Showcase.

Carrie Carpenter from Casella Recycling speaks with Tanner Arnold '20, Tori Malamas '20, Ally Bryan '20, Alex Cohen '20 and Skyler Ferrone '20 during a visit to the facility on Wednesday.

After collecting five days worth of waste, students in Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Tarah Rowse's Sustainable Living and Learning Community perform a waste audit in the courtyard of Jackson, Potter and Rees halls.

Shafi Shirzai '17 (right) talks about his abroad experience in Bremen, Germany, with Emmet Hassett '18 and Thomas Reny '18 at the annual Julius G. Blocker '53 Cultural Showcase.