Hobart and William Smith Colleges

May was all about our graduates. Here, family and friends watch the Commencement ceremony from the hill on the Quad.

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

The first snowfall of the season blankets campus in November.

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

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.

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.

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.”

Charlie Hamilton ’29 talks about what he learned during “Mars!” with Professor of Geoscience Nan Crystal Arens.

Nehemiah Wagner ’29, Jair Brown ’29 and Hilton Johnson ’29 present the zines they created during “Face to Face: Interrogating Race in the United States & South Africa” with Visiting Associate Professor of Africana Studies James McCorkle ’76, P’20.

Hawa Bah Wulu ’29 presents what she worked on during the semester in “Encountering Difference” with Associate Professor of Religious Studies Shalahudin Kafrawi.

Nigel Presume ’29 presents his project as part of the FSEM “Parched: Past, Present and Future of Water” with Associate Professor of Geoscience Tara Curtin.

Latrell Martin ’29 presents his research findings on “How Sleep Shapes Memory and Performance.” The work was conducted under the direction of Professor of Chemistry Kristin Slade.

As part of the “‘Bodies’ Politic” FSEM with Associate Dean Joe Mink, Danielle Braver ’29 speaks about her project on the world of extreme soccer fandom.

Students in “Game Changers: Disease, Cures & Social Change” with Professor of Biology Sigrid Carle ’84 present a board game they created during the class.

Lilia Mack ’29, Ashley Conde ’29 and Mamie Curran ‘29 speak about their research on The Titanic while in “Unsinkable” with Associate Professor of Russian Area Studies David Galloway.

Students in “Fish On!” With Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric Ben Ristow present what they learned throughout the semester.