Hobart and William Smith Colleges

At the Bozzuto Boathouse, Associate Professor of Geoscience David Finkelstein and Kate Abdalla '26 titrate lakeshore water to decipher groundwater flow into Seneca Lake.

This week, we celebrate mentorship at HWS and the dedicated faculty who help students discover their passions and pursue new opportunities. Here, Associate Professor of Politics DeWayne Lucas and Tristan Fasig '26 discuss the Politics Department’s new Pi Sigma Alpha Speaker Series, where alumni working in public service, law and government share their career experiences.

During “Data Analytics and Visualization,” Professor of Business Management and Entrepreneurship Tom Drennen reviews students’ findings regarding ChatGPT’s ability to plot data.

Christina Mohonta ’27 joins Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectional Justice Michelle Martin-Baron in her office to chat about their research exploring the historical and political use of gendered violence to control women in South Asia.

Associate Professor of Economics Joshua Greenstein assists students with an in-class problem set in "Statistics."

At the Henry Hanley Biological Field Preserve, Professor of Biology Mark Deutschlander works with Katie Crandall ’26 to record data, band and release birds as part of a new migration project. Permits for this work are provided by the USGS Bird Banding Laboratory and NYDEC to Professor Deutschlander, and birds are handled using ethical guidelines from the North American Banding Council.

Professor of American Studies Elizabeth Belanger discusses data visualizations with students in "Storytelling Through Data."

Christian Kneaskern '28 examines an ancient coin with Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Studies Jim Capreedy in "Ancient Epigraphy."

In a special year-end edition of This Week in Photos, we selected one photo to encapsulate each month of the year. In early January, Professor of Economics Feisal Khan and Senior Associate Director of the Salisbury Center for Career Services Shayne Feinberg join students on the finance career trek for a photo with the charging bull on Wall Street.

October brought distinguished guests - conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt and liberal columnist Ruth Marcus - to the Stern Family Forum. Their conversation was moderated by HWS Trustee Bill Whitaker ’73, L.H.D.’97, an award-winning CBS News correspondent with “60 Minutes.”

The first snowfall of the season blankets campus in November.

During the last week of classes, Associate Professor of Geoscience Tara Curtin leads students through a lab using a stream table to simulate the effects of long-term erosion during “Introduction to Hydrogeology.”

President Mark D. Gearan and Mary Herlihy Gearan take a selfie with first-years on the William Smith soccer team during Orientation in August.

July means summer research aboard the William Scandling. Here, Finger Lakes Institute research student Daudi Aden ’26 shows Daniel R. Baker ’72 organisms collected from sediment in Seneca Lake.

On the first day of classes, Will Redman ’27 and Brian Sheehan ’26 walk to the Scandling Campus Center for lunch.

Reunion 2025 brought back hundreds of alumni and their families to campus in June. Here, the Class of 2000 poses for a photo before the start of the traditional Pulteney Street Parade.