Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Austin Letorney ’17 (front) trains with the New York Athletic Club for the U.S. U23 World Championship Trials. The winner of the trials, which are held July 18-22, will travel to Rotterdam, Netherlands to compete in the World Championships.

Dr. William Pugh '85, Bob Zinn '59, Frances Collins Rogers '90, and John Rogers '92 pose for a photo in Quebec. The four met by chance while waiting for a walking tour in the city, and while making conversation, realized that they were all HWS grads.

Professor of Environmental Studies John Halfman, Serena Bradt ’18 and Harry Simbliaris ’17 measure stream discharge to determine nutrient loadings from Dutch Hollow Brook to Owasco Lake.

Professor of Environmental Studies John Halfman services an autosampler, a device that collects stream samples on a preset schedule. The collected water will be analyzed for various nutrients back in the lab to determine nutrient loadings between Dutch Hollow Brook and Owasco Lake.

Serena Bradt '18 and Harry Simbliaris '17 measure stream discharge to determine nutrient loadings from Dutch Hollow Brook to Owasco Lake.

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.

Wildlife biologist Linda Ziemba (left) and Ren Workman ’19 (right) measure the amounts of native and non-native species on tracts of land at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge.

Ren Workman ’19 identifies species of native and non-native plants at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge as part of her work with the Colleges’ Finger Lakes Institute.

While on the Preseli Hills hike, students discuss the logistics involved in constructing Stonehenge. How did the ancient tribe move huge stones over a distance of almost 150 miles in order to construct the monument?

For this week's photo gallery, we look at the Colleges’ three-week Wales study abroad program, “Outdoor Education: Theoretical Issues in Outdoor Pursuits” led by Hobart Assistant Dean David Mapstone '93. This photo marks the group's first day at a beach outside of Carmarthen, a small town beside the Tywi River in Central Wales.

Students sketch the ‘Worms Head’ coast line at Gower Peninsula in the southeast area of Wales.

Katherine Speigel ’18 writes in her journal.

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

During a free weekend, Lindsay Brown ’19, Meredith Kellogg ’19, Julia Minker ’19, Alyssa Deem ’18, Maddie Cullinan ’19 and Richie Andes ’19 explore Bath, England.

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.