Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Students hike through the Preseli Hills. The location is, among other things, known as the source of material used for the iconic Stonehenge, outside of Salisbury, England.

The group hikes along the knife's edge cliff of Mount Snowdon in Snowdonia National Park.

Students survey the surrounding terrain during their 10-mile hike through the Preseli Hills.

Students pose with Hobart Assistant Dean David Mapstone '93 at the top of Pen y Fan.

Experts from the University of Wales offer an introduction to Carreg Cennen Castle. Just outside of the Brecon Beacons National Park, the location has been described as spectacular, due to its position above a limestone precipice.

Students listen to a lecture from Hobart Assistant Dean David Mapstone '93 on the Trinity Saint David campus of the University of Wales in Carmarthen.

Richie Andes '19 does a flip to celebrate his first day in Wales in front of Llansteffan Castle, a 10th century Norman structure situated at the mouth of the Tywi River.

University of Wales Professor Andy Williams discusses a Sense of Place involving a hike through the Preseli Hills. Williams is a sociologist by training with expertise in history, culture and geology.

Students discuss options before beginning their first hike through the Welsh country around Carmarthen. Their destination was Pen y Fan, one of the highest peaks in southern Britain.

Local builders Kurt Martin and Scott Kanehl assist with the construction of a new play park adjacent to campus and the Geneva Garden apartments in the South Lake neighborhood. Scheduled for completion in May 2017, the playground will include swings, climbing structures, a kickball field and a community garden.

Using materials donated from the New York State Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station, Audrey English ’17 and Sarah Pullman ’18 put together a structure of willow boughs for the new playground. The playground will be built from natural materials and is intended to create a play-space for children in the Geneva Garden apartments.

Construction begins on the new café in the Melly Academic Center at the Warren Hunting Smith Library.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Brien Ashdown meets Dr. Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, UN Messenger of Peace and the world’s leading expert on chimpanzees, while presenting at the 31st International Congress of Psychology in Yokohama, Japan.

Surrounded by Music Department faculty members in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts, Dr. Robert H. Gilman ’70 and his wife, Christine Gilman, cut the ribbon on the new music classroom donated by Gilman ’70 and Craig M. Stevens ’85.

In conjunction with the Summer Organic Research Symposium, Namita Neerukonda ’17 presents a talk called Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Simplified Analogs of Protein Kinase C inhibitor Staurosporine.” She presented the material with Fernando Banales '17.

With assistance from Professor of Geoscience Neil Laird and Assistant Professor of Geoscience Nicholas Metz, Molly Neureuter '18 and Lukas Ruddy ’18 launch weather balloons to study the atmosphere above Seneca Lake.