Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Jaelyn Britton '16 sings the song Black Rage during the annual Charity Ball dinner hosted by Sankofa on Saturday evening.

Students rehearse in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts to get ready for the inaugural theatre production, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's uproarious romantic comedy of disguise and mistaken identity directed by Assistant Professor of Theatre Chris Hatch.

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dance Bethany Fagan Good 10 begins her Body & Self class with a relaxation exercise in the Deming Theatre of the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

German Veras '17, Marie Claire Hamet '19 and Sydney Gomez '17 check out the new spaces in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

Associate Professor of Education Patrick Collins P09, Associate Professor of Dance Michelle Iklé and Professor of Music Bob Cowles meet with Megan Scheffer, the new Gearan Center secretary.

Professor of Media and Society Lester Friedman speaks to students in his class Imagining the West in the Fish Screening Room of the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

On the day of its delivery, Assistant Professor of Music Mark Olivieri plays the new Steinway grand piano in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

The 65,000-square-foot Gearan Center for the Performing Arts brings together music, dance, theatre and media and society in a unified academic space for the first time in HWS history.

Walden Bass, applied music instructor, works with a student on the first cello lesson to occur in Froelich Hall.

Saxophone instructor Alexa Tarantino works with Will Conard-Malley '17 in a third-floor music studio in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

Pierce de Boisblanc '19 finds a quiet place to read in the Warren Hunting Smith Library.

Fatima Saravia '16 studies for her class Cancer Biology taught by Professor of Biology Sigrid Carle 84.

Students, faculty and staff participating in the Leadership Institute pose for group photo in the Vandervort Room of the Scandling Campus Center. More than 100 HWS students and Geneva High School juniors and seniors participated in the three-day leadership conference.

In the Vandervort Room, Jonathan Berhanu, Ph.D. candidate in educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin, opened the sixth annual Leadership Institute with a keynote address titled, From Hope to Action: College Student Activism and the Pursuit of a Just World.

Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Erika King teaches Graph Theory in Lansing Hall.

Professor of Political Science Jodi Dean leads a discussion in her class Introduction to Feminist Theory. Students are learning about feminist theory by focusing on three sites the university, work and culture.They will consider how feminist theory helps them analyze each site, identify problems, propose solutions and formulate strategies for feminist change.