Friendly, brainy, charming

Hood College students Victoria Farmer-Long and Caitlin Witters rejoice as they get a lab experiment procedure right during Dr. Oney Smith's Newsstand Biology class.

Graduate student and teaching assistant Emma Bowers, middle, helps out Victoria Farmer-Long and Cailin Witters with a lab exercise.

Megan Cooper watches as lab partner Manav Danwar fills a pipette during Dr. Oney Smith's Newsstand Biology class.

Business Management major Mike Higgs fills a pipette with live yeast during a lab exercise in Dr. Oney Smith's Newsstand Biology class.

Dr. Oney Smith checks out the work of one of his students during a lab exercise in his Newsstand Biology class.

Brainy

Hood ROTC Cadets Ira Benoit and Michelle Vestenmark identify flower reproductive organs during Dr. Sue Canney's Physiology of Plants and Animals class.

Hood College ROTC Cadet Michelle Vestenmark peers through a microscope during a lab exercise in Dr. Sue Carney's Physiology of Plants and Animals class.

Brainy

Piano student Beth Myers prepares for a recital under the guidance of professor Noel Lester.

Brainy

Under the careful eye of Dr. Falkenstein, Biology 202 (Physiology of Plants and Animals) students Patricia and Charles Haynes along with others dissect insects to study their digestive enzymes.

Brainy

The teaching style of adjunct professor James Corley makes for intense discussions and lively group interaction in the graduate level Education 514 leadership class.

Brainy

Editing and Layout students (from left) Kristin Hawkins, Julia Banks, and Tory Wilson collaborate on a research project.

Jillian Murphy has the answer!

Professor Donna Bertazzoni assists Ariel Grove in an internet search..

Students were tasked with researching the answers to 25 questions without using the most popular search and reference websites.

Practical

Measuring the sample site on the Monocacy River in northern Frederick County. The object of the trip was to chart the movement of invasive "rusty" crayfish. This the the 7th year of the study in conjunction with NRS.

Setting the nets for the crayfish and beating the water.

Examining and collecting the first samples

Instructor Ron Albaugh identifying and monitoring the count

Moving to Piney Creek for samples in a tributary of the Monocacy

Piney Creek was deeper.

A found object !!

Surprising

Crayfish samples from the Monocacy River collected by the Environmental Studies students.

Brainy

Professor Aldan Weinberg, director of the Hood Communication Arts program,  listens as a student gives an oral presentation.

Concentration!

Students in Professor Weinberg's Senior Seminar discuss a class presentation.

Everyone has an observation, and they're all shared in this Senior Seminar.

Charming

 

The Appalachian Wind Quintet performs "Roaring Fork", an Eric Ewazen composition, at the fifth annual Randall Family concert series at Hood College. 

The Mistral Winds woodwind group performing at Sunday's concert.

Brainy

Linear Algebra requires a disciplined intellect and Nathan Jacobson has exactly that kind of gift.

Brainy

Haley Ormrod and Mandy White fine-tune their notes in Biology 114 biodiversity lab.

Jahtay Teh seems lost to all else except his notes in the same lab.

Friendly

Caitlin Buchholz and Robin Bast take a break from the intensity of their Quantitative Analysis classwork to share a bit of humor.

Brainy

Kali Ball and Calvin Silvious concentrate on their notes in Statistics 112 class.

Brainy

Carly Psioda, a Hood junior, said that the second floor of the Whitaker Campus  Center makes a great place to study, since it was quiet on a Friday afternoon.

Brainy

Haamida Niang studies intently in the Whitaker Campus Center.

Brainy

Studying brings students close, and the exchange of ideas does more than simply recall facts.

It can actually be fun working together.

Whittaker is the place to be seen.

Sissi Hamann (left) and Milana Braslavsky, Professor of Exhibitions Management, go over photo selections.