A highlight of the celebration of the reopening of the Hopkins Center for the Arts in October was a sunrise ceremony with Yo-Yo Ma and Native and Indigenous artists on the banks of the Connecticut, acknowledging the river’s essential place in New England history and culture. Ma, who arrived at the ceremony by canoe, seemed to relish the moment. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

Last winter brought two ski celebrations to campus—Winter Carnival ski races and the NCAA Skiing Championships. Here, racers participate in the 20k cross country at Oak Hill. I love the sense of action that view of the course gives from above, and the relative size of the skiers.  (Photo by Robert Gill)

The community came inside for Cara Romero’s Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) at the Hood Museum of Art. Romero’s first major solo exhibition spanned 13 years of her work and a large portion of the museum’s top floor, and included works created with Native and Indigenous students from Dartmouth. (Photo by Sophia Scull ’25)

Then it was back outside, this time for a class lab. Dartmouth is fortunate to be surrounded by pristine examples of changing winter habitats where students can take classroom knowledge into the field. Here, biological sciences  Caitlin Hicks Pries shows her Winter Ecology students an evergreen sprig that had been chewed on by a porcupine. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

The anticipation is palpable as Carly Elsinger ’25 prepares to race in the slalom in the NCAA Skiing Championships at the Dartmouth Skiway in early March. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Research at Dartmouth traverses both space and time. Guarini PhD candidate Miranda Zammarelli has been digitizing emeritus professor Richard Holmes’ hand-drawn paper maps of songbirds’ territories in Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest that date back more than 50 years, using the data to track their resilience. In this photo, Professor of Biological Sciences Matt Ayres, left, Zammarelli, and Holmes examine some of the original maps. I savored the multigenerational story here, and also the secret that my foot is the black object in the top right-hand corner. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

Back outside, where parts of campus serve as labs, Molly Stevens ’25 worked with Professor of Earth Sciences Carl Renshaw and Senior Research Scientist Josh Landis on carbon capture research at the Dartmouth Organic Farm. A mixture of iron and silica, aka iron slag, was sprinkled on the snow to seep into the soil as it melted. I was curious how a detail like this could tell a story and liked the hints of a human presence in the footprints. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

Snowmelt in the spring brings more birds back onto the Green. Office of Communications photo intern Sophia Scull ’25 showed this robin’s curiosity—and slight wariness—of the people it was encountering. (Photo by Sophia Scull ’25)

Dartmouth has several distinctive and well-loved buildings surrounding the Green, and a constant quest is to find new ways of photographing them. Sophia captured this dramatic moment over Dartmouth Hall, turning the transient nature of weather into art. (Photo by Sophia Scull ’25)

As campus warms up in the spring, campus abounds with student celebrations. Every year in early May, the student group Hokupa`a hosts hundreds of community members from across Dartmouth for lunch and Lu’au on Baker Lawn. (Photo by Beam Lertbunnaphongs ’25)

Our video of Commencement speaker Sandra Oh “dancing it out” with students at the ceremony went viral, but my favorite moment was the soundcheck the day before, and her expressive arms. How much can be said in silhouette? (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

For the last two years, former OOC photo intern Julia Levine ’23 has returned to photograph Commencement with our team, and she inevitably snaps some of my favorite photos. She finds those funny, quiet, and poignant moments in the midst of exuberance. (Photo by Julia Levine ’23)

The Connecticut River is also a great place for recreation, and Senior Video Producer Chris Johnson shows the benefits of our proximity to the river with this image of summer paddleboarding. (Photo by Chris Johnson)

At the end of summer, incoming first-year students gather for a few days on campus before heading out to First Year Trips. It’s a bonding experience that many remember fondly for decades to come, and juniors and seniors, as pictured above, lead the new students with an energy and enthusiasm that Robert captures so well. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Since 2013, innovative DALI Lab and computer science projects are showcased in the quarterly Technigala. Here, President Sian Leah Beilock speaks with a group of engineering students on improvements to Dartmouth’s newest formula racing car, “Talia.” The student-run team designs, builds, and drives custom racecars each year in the Formula Hybrid+Electric and Formula SAE competitions. (Photo by Robert Gill)

While a statewide burn ban because of an extreme drought meant no bonfire at Homecoming this year, the laser light celebration in its stead brought new and wonderful photographic opportunities. Here, first-year students run their usual celebratory circuit around the Green. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

Fall term brought the reopening of the Hopkins Center for the Arts and the new Daryl and Steven Roth Wing. Thousands joined together for a weekend of performances and workshops, celebrating the past and future of art at Dartmouth. (Photo by Kata Sasvari)

From left, John Rieling ’26, Nicky Denning ’26, and Isabel Rosenberg, MED ’28,  chat with former Surgeon General Antonia Coello Novello after a panel with her colleagues at the global symposium on youth well-being co-hosted by Dartmouth and the United Nations Development Programme in October. (Photo by Robert Gill)

As sunsets begin to arrive earlier, campus is filled again with student celebrations of light. The Shanti Hindu student group presents Diwali each fall on the Green, followed by food and music with the local community. Office of Communications photo intern Sophia Sahni ’28 not only attended the festival but saw it through new eyes as she photographed the familiar scenes. (Photo by Sophia Sahni ’28)

As the end of fall term brings a loss of leaves, we’re rewarded with the patterns of first snow on our many campus trees. Beam Lertbunnaphongs ’25 sees the beautiful invitation to stillness this seasonal change brings. (Photo by Beam Lertbunnaphongs ’25)

Winterim break arrives with a calm over campus. Bags are packed, textbooks shelved for a month, and memories of the year relived with friends and family. (Photo by Sophia Scull ’25)