Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Students tour the HWS Solar Farm. The facility features 7,800 panels on a 10-acre site in the Town of Seneca.

In the Geneva Room, students compare measurements used in their final project to design an eco-lodge to be built near a lake in the Adirondacks. For the assignment, students collected data on water quality, biodiversity and succession.

In this special edition of This Week in Photos, we follow along as participants in the Environmental Studies Summer Youth Institute (ESSYI) take classes with the Colleges’ top-rated faculty, discuss environmental stewardship and climate action, as well as travel through the Finger Lakes Region and Adirondack Mountains. Above, students pose at the Goodnow Mountain trailhead.

Professor of Education Paul Kehle asks students to consider how to represent and analyze issues of environmental sustainability.

At HWS Fribolin Farm, students learn about community supported agriculture with Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Beth Kinne and Food Systems Program Manager Sarah Meyer.

ESSYI staff Anthony Carella '22, Alyssa Kelly '19, MAT '20, Anna Moreau '20, Avery Wickersham '19, MAT '20, Emma Wilber '21, Hadley Browning '20, Bethany Kharrazi '21 and Noah Ball '21 pose at Seneca Lake State Park.

At their final dinner celebration, the 2019 ESSYI participants and staff gather for a photo at Seneca Lake State Park.

Alongside Professor of Biology Meghan Brown (right), students use bongo-nets to gather zooplankton. Students then analyze their samples under a microscope.

Associate Professor of Theatre Heather May encourages students to explore environmental issues through movement, acting and dance.

Food Systems Program Manager Sarah Meyer and Summer Farm Intern Loretta Hauslauer ’19 show students how to manage a honeybee hive.

Hobart Dean and Associate Professor of Education Khuram Hussain leads a class in Napier Hall.

Kate Foley '20 and McKenzie Frazier '20 discuss findings on feeding trials with Round Goby and Lake Sturgeon as part of summer research conducted alongside Director of Introductory Biology Laboratories Susan Flanders Cushman ’98.

Hobart Dean Khuram Hussain and incoming members of the Classes of 2023 listen to Student Trustee Albright Dwarka '21 discuss life on campus.

William Smith Assistant Dean Lisa Salter (standing) and Academic Opportunity Programs Assistant Director Edith Wormley (seated) answer questions over lunch with a group of incoming William Smith students in Stern Hall.

Led by Associate Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies May Farnsworth, students in the summer abroad program to Quito, Ecuador visit the Equator.

Annie Wertheimer '22 works with students at the international school Academia USA in Quito, Ecuador.