Hobart and William Smith Colleges

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.

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

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.

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.

Becky Perkins '11, advocacy and procurement manager for the Russia-based Program to Expand the Access of Vulnerable Groups to HIV Prevention, leads a discussion about Nonexistent? We exist!, a documentary about the sincere efforts of people to support one another with mutual respect.

Sue Peterson of the Weavers’ Guild of Rochester demonstrates tapestry weaving at Houghton House during the fifth annual German Studies Symposium. The theme of this year's symposium was Work and Weft — Labor, Gender and Art.

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.

Interim President Patrick A. McGuire L.H.D. '12 addresses students, faculty and staff on the steps of Coxe Hall before the spring Day of Service on Saturday.

Students make arts and crafts with children at the Boys and Girls Club of Geneva as part of the spring Day of Service.

Volunteers with the Geneva Heroes program participate in Day of Service by helping with groundskeeping at the Washington Street Cemetery in Geneva, N.Y.

Day of Service volunteers pose before heading out to sites across the Finger Lakes region to garden, clean, paint and help area schools, churches and nonprofits.

Hobart Dean Khuram Hussain provides the introduction 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.

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

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

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.