Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Dancers from the Arc of Monroe strike a pose with HWS dancers after their Arts Experience performance in Deming Theatre.

Jerah Siegal '21 presents Biodome, a self-sustaining greenhouse that can be built on small spaces such as rooftops, during the National Science Foundation I-Corps Short Course Program. The two-week Customer Discovery workshop is designed to accelerate early-stage ideas toward business and entity creation.

Teya Lucyshyn '19 has been selected to join the Peace Corps. The biology and educational studies double major will head to Ukraine this summer to serve as a community youth worker.

Joshua Hylkema '21 leads a campus tour for high school juniors.

Jonas Toupal '19, a geoscience major, addresses the Board of Trustees luncheon. Toupal discussed his honors project, Using Remote Sensing to Analyze Mercury Contamination in Vegetated Areas: The Case of Tarkwa, Ghana. This fall, Toupal will pursue a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in Earth and Environmental Science.

Political science major Pamela Icyeza '19 discusses her Honors project, Understanding the effect of Sino-African relations on African Development at the Board of Trustees luncheon. Icyeza will pursue a Ph.D. in political science at Boston University.

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.

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.

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

Theater professor Heather May performs Rearranging the Furniture, a solo act about dealing with the process of losing her sight and how to make the theater industry, specifically directing, more accessible especially for those that are visually impaired. The audience wore blindfolds for most of the performance.

Margiloff Family Entrepreneurial Fellow Ed Bizari guest lectures about angel investors in Visiting Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies Craig Talmage's capstone seminar at the Bozzuto Center for Entrepreneurship.

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.

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.

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