Hobart and William Smith Colleges

During summer research with Professor of Chemistry Kristin Spade, Arielle Newsome ’28 works to purify Malate dehydrogenase, a critical enzyme in the citric acid cycle, which is central to metabolism for humans.

Associate Professor of Business Management and Entrepreneurship Craig Talmage and Kirsten Roman ‘26 discuss a support plan for the Latino Festival that is coming to Geneva this Fall.

Dr. Lowell J. Levine '59 donates personal materials to the HWS archives. Levine is a retired forensic odontologist and Director of the New York State Police Medicolegal Investigations Unit. He investigated the deaths of President John F. Kennedy, Tsar Nicholas II and his family, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Josef Mengele. Pictured are Levine and his wife Cathy Levine, HWS Archivist and Special Collections Librarian Brandon Moblo, India Buff '27 and Presidential Fellow Sophia Mughal '25.

Geneva Mayor Jim Cecere '91 and Journey Horeis '28 pose for a photo in the City Council chambers. Horeis is interning with the Mayor's office this summer.

Assistant Professor of Psychological Science Elizabeth Belcher discusses human psychophysiological responses during a sustained attention task with her summer research students Alex Ciesielski ‘27, Lilly Andrews-Edwards ‘29 and Alyssa Hanuscin ‘27.

Ella Rhodes '29 and Nora Smith '27 paint a mural, designed by artist Tsioianiio Galban, on Castle Street in downtown Geneva. Rhodes and Smith are working with Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectional Justice Michelle Martin-Baron on PACT, the Public Art for Community Transformation Summer Mural Project.

Jasmine Cheung '27 measures the diameter of a tree in Coopers’ Woods as part of a project seeking to understand carbon sequestration. Ho is working with Professor of Environmental Studies Kristen Brubaker and Ollie Sainsbury '27.

John Spicer '28, Michaela Riley ’27, Assistant Professor of Media and Society Jiangtao "Harry" Gu and Professor of Chemistry Walter Bowyer identify the yellow pigment used to depict Chinese population in the Statistical Atlas of the United States based on the 1870s census.

Sonam Drema '29 and Liam Mead ’28 work with Professor of International Relations Vikash Yadav to build Tableau skills and create interactive visualizations of their research projects. Drema is documenting immigration from India, while Mead is analyzing France's 2022 presidential election.

Working with researchers at HWS’ Finger Lakes Institute, Khanh Phan ‘29 examines the organisms in a water sample from Seneca Lake while on board the William Scandling aquatic research vessel.

David Emerson ’27 loads the new 500 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) auto-sampler that was purchased thanks to HWS Trustee Kevin Stein ’88. While working with Professor of Chemistry Erin Pelkey, Emerson, Joan Reichert ’28 and Emma Sherwood ’28 have found that sunlight is all that is needed to perform Mallory-type electrocyclization reactions, a discovery that could prove useful in the search for new anti-cancer agents.

India Buff '27 reviews a scrapbook while assisting Archivist and Special Collections Librarian Brandon Moblo to process and create finding aids for Wells College archival collections.

Nicholette Carter '27 and Lief Minnick '28 investigate how AI and human understandings of music diverge, especially in their relationship to time. Carter and Minnick are working with Associate Professor of Music Charity Lofthouse.

Hillel Wasserman '28 discusses his summer research project 'The Figure of the Askari within the African context’ with Associate Professor of History Virgil Slade.

Payton Owens ‘28 and Bella Miller ‘28 examine fruit flies for changes in gene activity during organ formation (eye, ovary) while doing research with Professor of Biology Kristy Kenyon.

Christian Kneaskern '28 photographs an ancient coin while working with Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Studies Jim Capreedy.