Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Students prepare for Spirit Day in Bartlett Theatre.

On the tundra of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in Alaska, MaryBridget Horvath ’24 poses with the 2023 Polaris Project cohort. The group tracked the effects of water flow from the melting of frozen ground to lakes.

Coxe Hall is readied for the beginning of Orientation for the Classes of 2027.

Matt Brown ’24 poses for a photo during Hobart Football’s Media Day in the Poole Family Dome.

While studying in Copenhagen this summer, Madison Medwid ’23 attends a performance by the Vienna Mozart Orchestra during a class trip to Vienna, Austria.

In the Bozzuto Center for Entrepreneurship, President Mark D. Gearan speaks at the Geneva 2030 meeting.

While doing research with Professor of Geoscience Nan Crystal Arens, Heather Kerns ’24 and Will Murray ’24 paddle across Hemlock Lake to collect water samples in order to test for the presence of microplastics.

Isabel Huelgas ’25 and Elisabeth Pedone ’25 pose for a photo while interning at the Smith Center for the Arts in Geneva.

New faculty gather for a photo in front of Coxe Hall, including (front) Elizabeth Belcher (psychological science) and Iskandar Zulkarnain (media and society); and (back) John Zappia (management and entrepreneurship), Wenwen Li (mathematics and computer science), Jonathan Berhanu (educational studies) and Kit Hermanson (Fisher Center).

Office of Admissions tour guides pose for a photo under the flagpole between Trinity Hall and Geneva Hall.

Finger Lakes Institute intern Anjalee Wanduragala ’26 (center) leads a timeline activity during the Climate Change Educator Retreat.

Between rainstorms on Monday, a rainbow appears on the east side of Seneca Lake.

Wedad Al Rousan ‘26 leads an arts and crafts activity while volunteering at the Boys and Girls Club of Geneva.

In the HWS Greenhouse, Animal and Plant Technician John Knouse holds a blooming Carrion flower, a succulent native to Western Cape, South Africa that has, as its name suggests, a distinctive odor.

Assistant Professor of History Virgil Slade teaches “Demythologizing Race: A Re-Education of Difference” during the Summer Institute.

Coxe Hall on a sunny summer afternoon.