Hobart and William Smith Colleges

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.

Matt Burnett 20 and Sinead McManus 20 pipe solutions during an Advanced General Chemistry lab.

New Writing Colleague Abby Abrams 19 is introduced by Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric Ben Ristow during the Writing Colleagues Welcome Reception.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric Amy Howard Green introduces Canieshia Phillips 19 during the Writing Colleagues Welcome Reception in the Seneca Room. Each year, students are nominated and selected by faculty members to represent different academic departments.

Shannon Smith 20 and her parents Anne and Steve of Wayne, Pa., gather in front of the Scandling Campus Center during check-in for Homecoming and Family Weekend.

The Global Perspectives Theme House gets decorated for the house decorating contest during Homecoming and Family Weekend.

President Mark D. Gearan welcomes students and families to campus before the Parents Executive Committee Dinner at the President's House.

Welcome to HWS Homecoming and Family Weekend!

Ryan Klimkewicz 20 performs in the Cellar Pub.

The HWS Post Office staff Pamela Slentz, Mary Ellen Huffman and Cully Semans shows off their new WHWS radio T-shirts in preparation for National College Radio Day in November. The station was recently named the 17th best college radio station in the nation.

Landscaping begins on the newly completed Richard S. Perkin Observatory.

Juliana Heffern 17, Grace Marola 17, Bridget Nishimura 17 and Katherine Pinkes 17 pose for a photo on the steps of Coxe Hall. They are serving as the 2016-17 officers of the HWS chapter of Psi Chi, the international honor society for psychology.

In advance of Homecoming and Family Weekend, students share their HWS spirit.

Erin Brockway, assistant director of the Salisbury Center for Career, Professional and Experiential Education, and Jackie Doyle P'14 P'19, associate director of the Salisbury Center, talk careers in business during an information session in the Sanford Room.

Professor of Philosophy Scott Brophy 78 leads an information session for students interested in the Colleges Pre-Law Program.

A metal sculpture by Andrew Hellmund '14 stands in front of the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts. Hellmund, who recently received his MFA from the University of Alberta in Canada, also has two sculptures on display in Geneva's Lakefront Park.