Hobart and William Smith Colleges

In today’s gallery, we share photos from the First-Year Seminar Symposium that gave students the opportunity to present research, artwork, writing, video and other projects to the HWS community.

Aliou Sangare ’27 presents his research conducted as part of the “Mars!” First-Year Seminar taught by Professor of Geoscience Nan Crystal Arens.

Elle Oberfield ’27 presents her research “Art, Activism & Aids.” Oberfield was in the “Writing & Resistance” First-Year Seminar.

Students in “Ghosts & Hauntings in the Americas” share original stories with attendees. The First-Year Seminar was taught by Michelle Martin-Baron, Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectional Justice.

Carden Costello ’27 presents research from the “Sustainable Living and Learning” First-Year Seminar with Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Whitney Mauer.

Students in “The Reality Effect (It was Not a Dark and Stormy Night)” gather for a group photo.

Manuela Taff-Freire ’27 shows Mary Herlihy Gearan her comic strip artwork from the course “From Comix to Graphix: The Art of Story” taught by Professor of Art and Architecture Lara Blanchard.

Sam Oestreicher ’27 and Henry Breslin ‘27 gather for a photo following their First-Year Seminar presentation.

Leela Walter ’27 presents research on the effects of coffee production due to climate change.

First-year students pose with Director of the Writing Colleagues Program Amy Green.

Bennett O’Keefe ’27 and Chris Woody ’27 present their work from the First-Year Seminar “Mars!”

Azure Sage ’27 presents work from “From Comix to Graphix: The Art of Story.”

Asher Landis ’27, Jessica Hoffman ’27 and Lyssa Wexler ’27 gather for a photo after presenting their work on the lifecycle of a product and its environmental challenges.

Caleb Nicholas ’27 and Reilly Roedel ’27 present copies of a zine created by students in “Interrogating Race” taught by James McCorkle, Visiting Associate Professor of Africana Studies.

Mark Serra ’27 and Juan Barajas ’27 were in “Building Bridges: Immigration and Oral History” with Sebastiano Lucci, the director of Less Commonly Taught Languages and Instructor of Italian. They interviewed a member of the Italian American community in Geneva, N.Y.

Jayne Pearson ’27 sets up a poster at the FSEM Symposium.