Hobart and William Smith Colleges

During New Chemistry Meets Old Art with Professor of Chemistry Walter Bowyer and Associate Professor of Art and Architecture Liliana Leopardi, students make zinc chromate, an artificial pigment called school bus yellow.

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Beth Kinne leads a brainstorming session during Sustainable Living and Learning. As part of a year-end project, students select an object they see or use daily and research the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of its production, use and disposal.

Associate Professor of German Area Studies Eric Klaus facilitates a discussion during Build Your Own Westeros.

In this special edition of This Week in Photos, we share photos of 2019 First Year Seminars, a cornerstone of the Colleges' curriculum. Here, students work outside during Associate Professor of History Matthew Crow's course Whales and Dolphins.

Herons meet up with students at Lindley Elementary School to volunteer at their after school program.

Eileen Rath '20 speaks on behalf of William Smith at the NCAA Championship Banquet. At William Smith we pride ourselves in our commitment to the 'us and the we' over the 'you and the me.' We are one team, one family, for and with each other, Rath said.

In this special edition of This Week in Photos, we feature the William Smith soccer team as they compete in the NCAA Division III Women's Soccer National Championship and secure their standing of No. 2 in the nation. Above, the team gathers before boarding a flight to Greensboro, N.C.

Immediately following their arrival in Greensboro, the Herons make time to practice.

Students in First Person Singular with Professor of Media and Society Cheryl Forbes (left) share excerpts of their memoirs.

In 2017, the sun sets over the Village at Odell's Pond.

Students in Making it Strange: Russians Discover America with Associate Professor of Russian Area Studies Kristen Welsh reproduce Russian icons from the 15th through 19th centuries.

Assistant Professor of English Alex Black leads a discussion on Frederick Douglas' What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? during Performing America.

A view of campus in 2018. This photograph is Colton's first drone shot of campus.

Assistant Professor of Art and Architecture Alysia Kaplan lectures during Active Forgetting.

Professor of French and Francophone Studies Catherine Gallouet challenges students to understand how their viewpoints as Americans will affect their study of France during Paris, Je T'Aime in the Fish Screening Room.

In July 2019, star trails frame the Bozzuto Boathouse. Colton photographed the scene for two hours, shooting every 30 seconds to capture the Earth's movement. This photo was also the cover of the 2019 fall issue of the Pulteney Street Survey.