Hobart and William Smith Colleges

President Mark D. Gearan greets HWS Orientation Mentors as they prepare to welcome the incoming Class of 2028 as well as transfer students.

Associate Professor of Politics DeWayne Lucas prepares for the start of the new semester in his Stern Hall office.

HWS Photographer Adam Farid ’20 captures the colorful skies of the Northern lights from campus at 1 a.m. on Monday.

New faculty gather for a photo, including Morton Wan (music), Erinn Ryen (management and entrepreneurship), Polina Ermoshkina (sociology), Sarabeth Rambold (Fisher Center), Melanie Dun Moodie (management and entrepreneurship) and Matthew Cooper (German area studies).

Associate Director for Disability Services Shanelle France ’11 hosts sunrise yoga at the Bozzuto Boathouse.

Orientation Coordinators Jillian VanLare ’26 and Joey Tello Galicia ’25 package name tags before the start of orientation.

The Hobart football team participates in media day in the Poole Family Dome.

Assistant Director of CCESL Peter Budmen ’15, Robin Savits Cooper '87, P'16 and HWS Trustee Edward R. Cooper ’86, P’16 join children participating in the Students Outside all Summer Program in Coopers’ Woods.

Led by Associate Professors of Geoscience Tara Curtin and Dave Finkelstein, students in this year’s GEO 299 field study course explored Washington and Oregon. Here, the group studies the sequence of events that formed Crater Lake and Wizard Island.

Brogan Dietsche ‘25 (right) poses with a fellow intern while working in the global discovery chemistry oncology/immunooncology department at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass.

While interning at Heartland Human Care Services, a resettlement agency for refugees, Jasmine Goncalves ‘27 prepares to teach refugees about life in the U.S.

Kendall Wilcox ‘28 holds a Roseate Tern chick while interning with Project Puffin in Maine.

Working as a project specialist for electric vehicles this summer, Cashon Young ‘24 (third from left) poses for a photo with fellow interns at Live Green CT.

Robert Nelson ‘74, Joanne Conrad ‘74, Laurie Tillinghast ’74, P’09, HWS Trustee Andy McMaster '74,P’09 and Christopher Muller ‘74 gather for a photo at the Eastward Ho! Country Club in Chatham, Mass.

HWS alums and friends pose for a photo during a gathering at Saranac Brewery.