Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Evan Kifner '20 finds a quiet place to study for final exams in Houghton House.

Jerlin Garo '18 looks at cancer cells under a microscope during lab work in Rosenberg Hall.

In this special edition of This Week in Photos, we share some of the best photos from fall 2017. In the photo above, the sun rises over the Hobart and William Smith campus.

Professor of Economics and Chair of Entrepreneurial Studies Tom Drennen talks to students during a site visit to check the progress of the Colleges’ second solar farm. The first HWS solar farm opened in 2016 along Rt. 14 North in the Town of Geneva.

President Gregory J. Vincent ’83 welcomes Ruby Verbitsky ’21 and her family to campus during matriculation.

Orientation mentors welcome the Classes of 2021 during move-in on Friday morning of Orientation Weekend 2017.

Noah Murray '21 (left), Thomas Weiss '19 and Sheila Uria Veliz '21 perform with the HWS String Ensemble in Froelich Hall of the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

This year’s winning Hackathon team — Chloe Brown ’21, Jack Polentes ’21 and Isabella Pardales ’21 — stand between judges Ted Kidd ’87, partner at Energy Efficiency Specialists; Noah Lucas ’13, HWS sustainability coordinator; Julie Bazan ’93, COO at Cobblestone Capital Advisors; and Kate Strouse Canada ’98, program coordinator for the Maxwell Program in Citizenship and Civic Engagement at Syracuse University.

Second-year writing colleague Donovan Hayden '19 works with Aman Cumberbatch '20 on an assignment for Cumberbatch's class Face to Face: Interrogating Race in the United States and South Africa with Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies James McCorkle.

Meghan Greco ’18 and Sarah Dolan ’18 study on the Quad.

Dancers glide across the stage during “The Moon,” a number choreographed by Sherry Yating Zhang ’19 and Xiaojin Natty Lin ’20 for the 2017 Koshare Dance Performance at the Smith Opera House.

Professor of Dance Donna Davenport works with students in the course, Composing Works: Music & Dance Composition, co-taught by Davenport and Associate Professor of Music Mark Olivieri.

In memory of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, members of Kappa Alpha Society placed American flags near Trinity Hall overlooking the Quad as part of the annual day of remembrance. The HWS community lost three alumni in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001: Andrew H. Golkin ’93, Scott W. Rohner ’01 and Michael J. Simon ’83, P’11, P’13.

Students meet in the living room of the Abbe Center for Jewish Life before Shabbat dinner.

Emily Kelley ’18 and Hannah Wood ’18 perform a hive check on a bee colony at the HWS Fribolin Farm.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Christine de Denus and Chris Williams '19 pose for a photo while tabling on behalf of the First Generation Initiative at the Involvement Expo.