Hobart and William Smith Colleges

This week, student photographer Kristine Vann ’18 takes you on a tour of Hobart and William Smith spaces, highlighting summer activities. Here, Orientation Coordinators Josh Weinstein ’17 and Lauren Carr ’17 pose for a photo at the Colleges’ entrance near Pulteney and Hamilton streets. The two have been planning Orientation for new students, happening at the end of August.

Dedicated to connecting students with cross-cultural opportunities, the Intercultural Affairs house is a major hub for cultural, social justice and global awareness events throughout the academic year.

Led by Associate Professor of Theatre Heather May, students in the social justice performance group Mosaic NY perform an environment building exercise in the McDonald Theatre of the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

The new Gearan Center for the Performing Arts provides a state-of-the-art academic space for theatre, dance, music and media & society. The building opened in January 2016.

The Intercultural Affairs house hosts a lunch program with the HWS Summer Academy.

Home to the Office for Spiritual Engagement, St. Johns Chapel provides a variety of religious services to the campus and the local community.

Summer students participating in the New Jersey SEEDS Program enjoy lunch in the Saga Dining Hall in the Scandling Campus Center.

The Scandling Campus Center houses the post office, the Office of Student Activities, Print Services, Saga Dining Hall and the Café.

The Blackwell Room in Demarest Hall is a peaceful area for students to work and study.

Adjacent to the Bristol Field House, Boswell Field is home to lacrosse and football. Overlooking the field, the Caird Center for Sports and Recreation, made possible by the generosity of James F. ’56 and Cynthia L. Caird, unites several key features of the Colleges’ athletics complex.

Professor of Political Science Kevin Dunn poses for a photo in his Stern Hall office. In 2016, Dunn published three books that address, from three vastly different perspectives, political and social realities and how global citizens can engage with them. Here he holds one of those books – Global Punk.

Participants in the HWS Kids College summer camp enjoy an afternoon on the lawn in front of Stern Hall. The building was named for principal donor Herbert J. Stern '58, LL.D. '74, P '03, and houses the departments of economics, political science, anthropology & sociology and Asian languages and cultures.

John Pallera '17, co-founder of The Executives Dance Team, practices in the fitness studio of Bristol Field House.

Functioning as the Colleges’ library from 1885 – 1976, Demarest Hall is now home to the religious studies, philosophy, English and comparative literature departments as well as the Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men.

A member of Professor of Chemistry Erin Pelkey's summer research team, Sophia Melvin '18 works on potential anti-cancer compounds in Rosenberg Hall. The products of her experiments will be tested using cell lines by Associate Professor of Biology Patricia Mowery's research team.

Rosenberg Hall and the Napier Classroom Center are a hub of activity during the summer as students and faculty use the space to conduct research.