Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Hugh McKenny '20 MAT '21, a mathematics and cognitive linguistics double major, studies in the basement of Merritt Hall. McKenny is conducting research in computational discrete mathematical modeling with Professor of Education Paul Kehle.

Dhiraj Mukkamala '20, an economics and history double major, poses on Boswell Field. Mukkamala is a member of the club soccer team.

Sociology major Davida Eyam-Ozung '20 sits in the Sunken Gardens at Houghton House. Eyam-Ozung is an incoming Academic Impact intern for the United Nations Foundation.

Biochemistry major Kaitlynn Sockett '20 sits at her favorite table in Saga Dining Hall. In the fall, Sockett will start a Ph.D. program in chemistry at Boston University.

Josh Wasserman '20, a biology and computer science double major, poses in front of the Cellar Pub.

Kate Foley '20, a biology major and member of the William Smith tennis team, is pictured on the Morrow Championship Court. Foley is conducting Honors research on sturgeons and round goby fish species.

Sarah Walters '19, a Genocide, Human Rights, and Peace Actions major, stands arm in arm with the William Smith statue on the Hill. She now serves as the Holocaust Education and Community Relations Program Director for the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester.

Anna Leffler '20, a biology major and member of the William Smith varsity swimming and diving team, swims in Bristol Pool. In the fall, Leffler will pursue a master's in occupational therapy at Tufts University.

Economics major Grant Emerson '20 sits on the benches overlooking Seneca Lake. Emerson is bound for Syracuse University Law School in the fall.

Kely Amejecor '19, a double major in Geoscience and Environmental Science, sits on the front steps of his favorite place on campus, The Finger Lakes Institute. Amejecor is pursuing a master's degree in geological and earth sciences at Binghamton University.

Sadie Mapstone '21 and Hannah Koppmann '23 lead an activity on arthropods.

Paleontology meets via Zoom following the shift to a remote learning model due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

Lamanna discusses his work with fossil preparations staff, curating museum collections and examining new acquisitions, including the snout of a Spinosaurus.

Students visit the museum's invertebrate paleontology collection. Kate Clayton '23 holds a large trilobite, an extinct marine arthropod common in the Paleozoic time.

Lamanna has led paleontological expeditions on every continent and helped uncover previously undiscovered dinosaur species. Here, he stands in the Cretaceous Seaway, an exhibition hall that features gentle giants and fierce predators that lived underwater.

Students create bivalve models. Bivalve populations include clams, oysters, scallops, mussels, etc.