Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Director of the Abbe Center for Jewish Life and Hillel adviser Julianne Miller provides the invocation for the Benjamin Hale Dinner in the Vandervort Room of Scandling Campus Center.

Donovan Hayden '19 delivers the student address at the Benjamin Hale Dinner.

Wes Traub '14, human resources development associate at Marsh & McLennan Companies, provides the keynote address at the Benjamin Hale Dinner, which honors outstanding academic achievement and social contributions to Hobart College.

Students in Visiting Assistant Professor of Media and Society Lina Žigelytė's Visibility Matters class prepare a pop-up exhibit, Some Future, 1969 at the Solarium Gallery in Houghton House. The exhibit explores 1969 through three marginalized groups: the Black Panther Party, the Indigenous people living within the borders of the U.S. and the LGBTQ+ community.

SUNY Fredonia Associate Professor of Art History Leesa Rittelmann provides the keynote address for the German Area Studies Symposium. Her talk is titled “'Wir weben! Wir weben!' Women and Weaving from ‘Gutter Art’ to Gesamtkunstwerk.

Students, faculty and staff gather in the Vandervort Room for the annual Benjamin Hale Dinner.

Dori Pekmezi, associate professor of health behavior at the University of Alabama, presents Physical Activity-Related Health Disparities as part of the Psychology Colloquium. Her research program focuses on using behavioral theory and technology to promote physical activity in underserved and/or at-risk groups.

Associate Professor of Political Science Stacey Philbrick Yadav discusses ethnographic and interpretive approaches in political science in Qualitative and Interpretive Research Methods.

Students perform chemical analyses on dyes extracted from foods in the Quantitative Chemical Analysis class with Professor of Chemistry Walter Bowyer (back right).

The sun rises over the campus and Seneca Lake on Sunday morning.

Professor of Art and Architecture Lara C.W. Blanchard discusses the Golden Pavilion at the temple of Rokuonji (also known as Kinkakuji) in Kyoto, Japan, during her Japanese Art and Culture class. The building is part of a Zen Buddhist temple dating back to the late 14th century.

Associate Professor of Theatre Chris Woodworth discusses the winning essay by Sarim Karim '22, On Ye Olde Drag Queens: The Subversion of Gender in Renaissance English Theatre, at the First-Year Writing Prize event in the Blackwell Room.

Finalists of the First-Year Writing Prize pose for a photo in the Blackwell Room after being recognized for their essays. The First-Year Writing Prize celebrates excellence in first-year writing at HWS. This year's winners are Sarim Karim ’22, Camille McGriff ’22 and Casey Pupek ’22.

Sophie Ritter '20, Cat DiCara '20, and Alyssa Hamilton '19 participate in Associate Professor of English Nicola Minott-Ahl's capstone course, Writing Women.

Associate Professor of English Nicola Minott-Ahl speaks to students in her Writing Women English capstone class.

Marilla Gonzalez, founder and owner of Waste Not, meets with Visiting Professor Craig Talmage's entrepreneurial capstone students for a project update at the Bozzuto Center for Entrepreneurship. Gonzalez hopes to open her health food and commerce store on Exchange Street in Geneva, N.Y., this summer.