Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Ned Kennedy ’19 of Theta Delta Chi edges out a win over Sigma Chi’s Drew Helbling ’16 during the semifinal round of 2016 Fall Nationals race during Homecoming and Family Weekend.

Representing The Druid Society, Hobart’s senior honor society, Clayton Lyons ’17 attempts to pass Drew Helbling ’16 of Sigma Chi in a photo finish at Fall Nationals.

Sydney Gomez '17 drives the Campus Activities Board's Cab at Fall Nationals.

Members of Theta Delta Chi fraternity hoist their soap box cart after winning Fall Nationals.

Riggs Alosa ’17 and Mary Kubinski ’17 help a late Fall Nationals entry “sniff out” the competition.

Allison Magnarelli '18 (center) and her parents, James Magnarelli P'18 and Francine Magnarelli P'18, stop for a photo during Homecoming and Family Weekend. A member of the Wish Factory theme house, Magnarelli and her housemates work with the Make-a-Wish Foundation to spread imagination, happiness and creativity across campus and in the Geneva community.

Guests of Homecoming and Family Weekend take a “groupie” outside the Intercultural Affairs house.

Sophia Melvin '18 and Devica Davis-Kilpatrick '18 share a laugh and a high-five during Quad-a-Palooza.

Donovan Hayden ’19 (center) enjoys time with his parents, Dr. Wilburn Hayden and Patricia Trudeau P’19, at Quad-a-Palooza during Homecoming and Family Weekend.

Swellar Zhou '19, Alden Ferrier '19, Sally Dent '19, Jemma Roche '19 and Gia Kang '19 chat while eating dinner during the cabaret talent show performance at Quad-a-Palooza.

Campus Activities Board members Tanisha Genao ’18, Carlos Robles ’18, Channel Campbell ’18, Genesis Gonzalez '17 and Brianna Moore '18 gather for a photo before Quad-a-Palooza.

Three Miles Lost, the Colleges' female a cappella group, performs during the Homecoming and Family Weekend student talent show on Friday.

Jack Daniels P’86, GP’17, who served as Hobart football head coach from 1981 through 1986, receives a standing ovation at a dinner held in his honor during Homecoming and Family Weekend.

Jordan Raivel ’20 and Alex Cottrell ’20 enjoy a view of a harvest moon from the docks of Bozzuto Boathouse on Saturday evening.

President Mark D. Gearan delivers the State of the Colleges address in the Vandervort Room of the Scandling Campus Center on Saturday morning.

The Echo Group President Dan Fee '92, Ithaca Mayor and Presidential Fellow Svante L. Myrick, President Mark D. Gearan, and political strategists Mary Matalin P'17 and James Carville P'17, LL.D. ’13 talk politics across parties during a special Homecoming and Family Weekend President's Forum.

Political strategist James Carville P'17, LL.D. ’13 speaks with Cynthia L. Caird L.H.D. ’12, Peter Caird and James F. Caird '56, L.H.D. ’12 following the President's Forum discussion on the upcoming 2016 election.

Everett G. and Donna J. Bishop P'08 take a photo with Brian Schubmehl '07, director of New England leadership giving, in the L. Thomas Melly '52 Lobby of the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts following the dedication of the Dance Corridor in honor of their daughter, Cara Bishop Lavallee ’08.

President Mark D. Gearan, Maureen Collins Zupan ’72, P’09, L.H.D. ’16 and Mary Herlihy Gearan join Rita Goldstein Ashton P'04, P'07 (cutting the ribbon) for the official dedication of the Ashton Dance Studio in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

Dance therapist Jessica Zippin ’07 leads a workshop for children in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts. Recently featured in Dance Teacher Magazine, Zippin uses dance as a therapeutic tool to help children with autism, cognitive and/or severe emotional disabilities to use their bodies to communicate their needs more effectively.

During Homecoming and Family Weekend, Harrison Simbliaris ’17 presents his research on the impact of precipitation and stream discharge at this year's Student Research Symposium in the Vandervort Room of the Scandling Campus Center.

Sophia Melvin ’18, Fernando Banales Mejia ’17 and Megan Lafferty ’18 present their summer chemistry research during the Student Research Symposium.

Members of the HWS community refuel at food trucks set up at Fall Nationals during Homecoming and Family Weekend.

Guests of Homecoming and Family Weekend participate in “Pie a Sigma Chi” outside of the Barn on Saturday. Now in its second year, the event raises money for Colleges Against Cancer.

President Mark D. Gearan serves a shaving cream pie to Emmitt Mendoza-Gaspar '17 during the Pie A Sigma Chi fundraising event on Saturday.

The Hobart football team gathers in front of St. John's Chapel before the annual “Victory Walk” to Coxe Hall as part of Homecoming and Family Weekend 2016.

James Hedger ’17 (left), Todd Collier ’17 and Brandon Ball ’18 record a sack during Hobart’s 23-3 victory over Ithaca College. Hobart had a season-high six sacks.

Zach Withers '18 leaps for a pass during Hobart's Homecoming game against Ithaca College.

Austen Gillen-Keeney ’17 drives past a defender during William Smith field hockey’s 3-4 loss to Lebanon Valley.

At the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts, Colleen Wahl Culley ’06 performs “Decadent” in Deming Dance Theatre as part of the “Dance Alumnae/i Weekend” at Homecoming and Family Weekend.

Kathryn Bowering ’11 (center) performs a self-choreographed piece “Misconductor of Ceremonies” alongside a leaping Renee Sobers in the Deming Dance Theatre of the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

HWS Dance alums join together to form a movement choir during Saturday’s “Dance Alumnae/i Weekend” performance in the Deming Dance Theatre.

While serving as a volunteer coach at the Geneva YMCA, Sarah Ouellette '17 is joined by her father Mark Ouellette P'17 on Saturday during Homecoming and Family Weekend.

A guest of the HWS Psychology Colloquium, Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center Dr. Michelle Burack presents her lecture, Measuring treatment response in Parkinson's disease: From bench to bedside to anywhere in the Sanford Room.

Miyoko Chu, senior director for communications at The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, speaks to Professor of Biology Mark Deutschlander’s First-Year Seminar, “Bird Obsessions.”

Shafi Shirzai '17 (right) talks about his abroad experience in Bremen, Germany, with Emmet Hassett '18 and Thomas Reny '18 at the annual Julius G. Blocker '53 Cultural Showcase.

Christopher Williams ’19 talks with Visiting Assistant Professor of German Area Studies Ashwin Manthripragada about religion in Germany during the Julius G. Blocker '53 Cultural Showcase.

Christopher Coggins, professor of geography and Asian studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, presents “China’s Fengshui Forests and the Lineage Village Landscape” as part of the Tanaka Asian Studies Lecture Series.

Community members join Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Robin Lewis and her ENV400: Group SIE students in weeding their garden at HWS Fribolin Farm. The vegetables will eventually be donated to the Geneva Community Lunch Program, where Lewis, her collaborator Food Systems Program Manager Sarah Meyers, and their students volunteer on a twice monthly basis as part of the Greens Growing Project, a multiyear collaboration between the Environmental Studies Program, Finger Lakes Institute, and the Geneva Community Lunch Program.

Students from Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Robin Lewis’ ENV400: Group SIE class host volunteers from the Geneva Community Lunch Program at HWS Fribolin Farm as part of their community service project duties.

Students in the First-Year Sustainable Living and Learning Community visit Casella’s recycling facility in Flint, N.Y., which sorts and bales 300 tons of recyclables per day. The program is taught by Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Beth Kinne, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Robin Lewis, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Tarah Rowse, and Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies Tom Drennen.

Carrie Carpenter from Casella Recycling speaks with Tanner Arnold '20, Tori Malamas '20, Ally Bryan '20, Alex Cohen '20 and Skyler Ferrone '20 during a visit to the facility on Wednesday.

After collecting five days worth of waste, students in Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Tarah Rowse's Sustainable Living and Learning Community perform a waste audit in the courtyard of Jackson, Potter and Rees halls.

Jack Ninivaggi '20 and other Sustainable Living and Learning Community students properly sort and recycle landfill-bound waste items during a campus waste audit.

Associate Professor of Asian Studies James-Henry Holland screens, Toyko Story,” a film by acclaimed director and screenwriter Yasujirō Ozu in the Geneva Room.

Professor of Sociology Wes Perkins leads an information session on HWS abroad programs available in Ireland.

Director of the Salisbury Center for Career, Professional and Experiential Education Brandi Ferrara discusses career opportunities with students at Intercultural Affairs.

Director of Intercultural Affairs Alejandra Molina (center) and Coordinator of Leadership Programs Kaylyn O’Brien '12 (second from right) discuss community building on campus during the Speak Out event held in the fireplace lounge of Scandling Campus Center.

Members of the Hobart football team visit St. Francis-St. Stephen's Elementary School in Geneva.

HWS theatre students take a group photo while preparing set designs for their upcoming production of “She Kills Monsters” directed by Assistant Professor of Theatre Chris Woodworth.

Taylor Rugg '17 discusses leadership opportunities for William Smith students – including the Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN), a national organization that prepares college women for leadership roles in public policy – during a seminar for juniors, sophomores and first-years.

Staff psychologist Tasha Prosper answers questions about mental health during the Latin American Organization's “Community Support and Mental Health”​ event at Intercultural Affairs.

The Salisbury Center for Career, Professional and Experiential Education hosts an information session in the Sanford Room for students interested in careers combining business and sports.

During an information session in Trinity Hall, HWS faculty members speak to students about their experiences choosing a graduate school.

Autism advocate Jesse Saperstein '04, author of, “Atypical: Life with Asperger's in 20 1/3 Chapters,” signs copies of the book after speaking with first-year students.

Trias Writer-in-Residence Jeff VanderMeer, best-selling author of the Southern Reach Trilogy, leads a workshop with students. VanderMeer is the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award, the Nebula Award, and three-time winner of the World Fantasy Award.

Matt Bindig '98, the author of the novel “Nothing Here is Real,” discusses literature and English careers during a talk in the Blackwell Room following his Trias reading.

HWS students studying abroad in Argentina with Assistant Professor of Psychology Brien Ashdown (front left) pause for a picture while hiking in Aconcagua Provincial Park in the Andes Mountains.

During their abroad experience in Argentina, HWS students meet up with international students learning English at Universidad Champagnat to practice Spanish language skills. The program is being led by Associate Professor of Psychology Brien Ashdown.

Led by Interim Chief Diversity Officer Solome Rose (center), students in the Centennial Center for Leadership's Beyond Borders program pose for a photo while in South Africa this summer. Combining international development and leadership studies, the program equips future leaders with the tools to tackle some of the most pressing global issues.

Kim Gutierrez '17, Molly Dietrich '17 and Ato Bensti-Enchill '17 take a photo after reaching the summit of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa.

Caroline Mackin ’19 fires a shot on goal against Manhattanville College on Saturday.

Allison Scumaci '20 tees off during the William Smith Invitational at Clifton Springs Golf Club in Clifton Springs, N.Y.

The William Smith College Rowing Team traverses Seneca Lake at sunset on Tuesday.

Tyson Goodridge ’94 and William Pitkin '93 strike a pose with their sons’ flag football team The Statesmen after picking up a win on Sunday.

Subin Nepal '15 and John Remmert P'16 pose for a photo after meeting in London. Nepal currently works as a Product Analyst for Markit in London.