Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science David J. Eck explains the general structure of an operating system during CPSC 431: Operating Systems.

Students watch their hand-crafted robots traverse an obstacle course as part of Robotics CS336 with Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science John Vaughn P08 (right) in Eaton Hall.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Etin Anwar instructs students in her Gender and Globalization in the Muslim World class on the Quad.

Associate Professor of Russian Area Studies David Galloway talks to students in his first-year seminar Eat Like a Slav: Russian Food and Culture.

Professor of Womens Studies Betty Bayer and her students discuss the life of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive her degree as a Doctor of Medicine. Blackwell graduated from Hobarts precursor Geneva Medical College in 1849. The class took place, appropriately, in the Blackwell Room.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies Craig Talmage discusses project ideas with students during Social Innovation for the Entrepreneur in Coxe Hall.

Students in Visiting Assistant Professor Kirby Benjamins Adaptive Re-Use Advanced Architecture Studio sit below their design project that was on display in Houghton House.

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

Associate Professor of History Lisa Yoshikawa speaks with students during The Asia Pacific Wars in Trinity Hall.

In Warren Hunting Smith Library, Gabrielle Eure 17 works on a project for her class Introduction to Architectural Design II with Assistant Professor of Art and Architecture Jeffrey Blankenship.

Professor of Economics Thomas Drennen discusses how the new HWS solar farm operates on overcast days with students in Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Darrin Magees class on energy.

Professor of Media and Society Linda Robertson meets with Gabriella Goodwin '19, a student in her Introduction to Social Documentary class. Goodwin created a three-minute segment that highlights the impact that music has on learning.

Leah Connerty '17 and Madeline Devereaux '17 use optogenetics to trigger neural circuits in the brains of larval fruit flies during class with Professor of Biology James Ryan.

The Venerable Tenzin Yignyen begins the sand mandala dismantling ceremony on the shores of Seneca Lake. Created every semester as part of the Tibetan Mandala class, the mandala is assembled out of different colored sand by both Tenzin and his students. In keeping with Buddhist tradition, the mandala is then disassembled in a ritual ceremony before the sand is brought to the shore of Seneca Lake and dispersed in the water.

In the Warren Hunting Smith Library, Victoria Tori Malamas 20 works on a project for her Principles of Physics class with Assistant Professor of Physics Ileana Dumitriu.

Students in Anatomy and Kinesiology with Professor of Dance Cadence Whittier (center, green shirt), pose for a photo with the dance departments anatomy skeleton, affectionately known as Joe, in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

Professor of Education Charlie Temple brings his Comparative and International Education class outside for a discussion of Amanda Ripley's book, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way.

Yuxi Liu 18 prepares to test fly moths in a flight tunnel as part of her summer internship at the New York State Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y.

Students and faculty stop for a group photo near Oakley, Kansas. Mammatus clouds can be seen in the background on the underside of a supercell thunderstorm anvil.

James Cooper '17 works in a lab in Rosenberg Hall. A biochemistry major and philosophy minor, Cooper recently completed an Honors project in the field of immunology under the guidance of Professor of Biology Sigrid Carle

Starry skies above the Richard S. Perkin Observatory. Completed in 2016, the Perkin Observatory is a nearly 1,000-square-foot teaching and outreach facility that provides students with opportunities to observe and photograph astronomical objects trillions of miles from Earth.

Samantha Shaffner '17 wards off a group of dragons during HWS Theatre's production of She Kills Monsters in the McDonald Theatre.

Joshua Martin '18 (left) and Jedidiah Collins '18 present research from their abroad experience in Japan titled, Ramen: Regionalism and Preparedness, at the Student Research Symposium in the Vandervort Room.

Students in Invasion Ecology traverse a field at Ganondagan State Historic Site where they observe the restoration effort to remove invasive Pale Swallow Wort and return the native grasslands for bird habitat. The class is taught by Associate Professor of Biology Meghan Brown.

Students work in the café of the Scandling Campus Center.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Daniel Graham watches Ian Martinson '17 measure the time it takes for Jackie Rogers '17 to complete a block construction task while wearing inversion goggles, which flip the visual world upside down, during his Sensation and Perception class in Gulick Hall.

Geoscience students conducting summer research on campus join Professor of Environmental Studies John Halfman aboard the William Scandling research vessel.

Ryan Montbleau '19, Sarah Walters '19, Soren Anders-Macleod '18 and Elleanor Smith '18 gather for a photo in Nuremberg City Hall during a reception honoring the 70th anniversary of the international war crimes trial proceedings. The four are leaders of the HWS Human Right and Genocide Symposium and went to Nuremberg with Associate Professor of Religious Studies Richard Salter 86, P15 to attend the 10th International Humanitarian Law Dialogs.

Associate Professor of Art and Architecture Kirin Makker snapped this photo of HWS students studying abroad in New Zealand.

A group of 13 HWS students studied abroad to Havana, Cuba for a three week trip this summer to learn about Cuban history and culture. Here, the group poses with the Cuban flag on the Malecón in Vedado.

Students on the Ecuador and Peru study abroad program pose for a photo during a visit to Quito, Ecuador. The program is being led by Professor of Economics Scott McKinney.

Students return home to the house of the Amigos de Lago Atitlán in Santa Catarina Palopó, on the banks of Lake Atitlán in Guatemala.

Led by Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology Christopher Annear (back, center), HWS students studying abroad in Vietnam pose for a photo with a local monk in front of the Theravada Buddhist Temple in Can Tho.