Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Hannah Nichols '17, Mary Herlihy Gearan, and Nicole O'Connell '16 pose for a photo following the Caribbean Student Association’s annual Charity Date Auction in the Vandervort Room.

Ammenab-Taner Bennerson ’18 receives bids for a date at the Caribbean Student Association’s annual Charity Date Auction in the Vandervort Room of the Scandling Campus Center on Saturday evening.

A group of attendees at the Charity Date Auction gather for a photo in the Vandervort Room.

Snow blankets the campus on Wednesday afternoon.

Fulbright Teaching Fellow Yvonne Brieger and exchange students Margarita Zhizhonkova and Tom Walter meet in Intercultural Affairs to discuss all things German during the event titled Kaffestunde sponsored by German Area Studies.

Students make stuffed animals as part of a Valentine’s Day event hosted by Student Activities in the Scandling Campus Center.

Current and former students that participated in the HEOP Program pose for a photo with Director of the Office of Academic Opportunity Programs James Burruto (center) following the Alger Adams dinner in the Common Room of the Scandling Campus Center.

Garrett Janssen ’16 and his Honors adviser, Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature Vinita Prabhakar, meet in the Blackwell Room to discuss the novel Janssen is writing for his English Honors project.

Director of the Office of Academic Opportunity Programs James Burruto welcomes members of the HWS community to the Alger Adams dinner in the Common Room of the Scandling Campus Center. The event was sponsored by the Office of Academic Opportunity Programs and the Office of Intercultural Affairs.

Three couples, including President Mark D. Gearan and Mary Herlihy Gearan, participate in a “couples challenge” as part of the annual Charity Date Auction hosted by the Caribbean Student Association. The event raised nearly $1,600 for Beverly Animal Shelter in Waterloo, N.Y.

Matthew Skinner ’17 recently landed a summer internship with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He will be researching domestic and international agricultural policy and investigating the climate change response plans of foreign countries.

A student walks down the stairs outside of Demarest Hall on Tuesday.

The Society for New Music, conducted by Travis Newton, perform during a live screening of the 1920 Douglas Fairbanks' silent film, The Mark of Zorro. The original score accompanying the film was composed by Assistant Professor of Music Mark Olivieri.

Students examine a film strip before a screening of the 1920 Douglas Fairbank’s silent film, The Mark of Zorro.” The event was the first in a series sponsored by the Richard S. Abramson Special Performance Fund.

Professor of Media and Society Lester Friedman leads a discussion before a screening of the silent film “The Mark of Zorro.”

Members of the HWS Jazz Ensemble perform in the L. Thomas Melly ’52 Lobby of the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.