Hobart and William Smith Colleges

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.

Led by Professor of Art and Architecture Ted Aub and Assistant Professor of Art and Architecture Gabriella D'Angelo, students participating in the Rome Abroad program this semester pose for a photo.

Elley Smith ’18 and Carolyn Martinez Diaz ’19 help clean the Geneva lakefront as part of the Colleges’ Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. Students volunteered at four sites in Geneva on Monday.

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.

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.

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

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

Students participating in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service prepare hygiene kits at St. Michael's Orthodox Church. The kits will be shipped to Syrian refugees through International Orthodox Christian Charities.

Crew members install the sign for the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday afternoon.

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.

Associate Professor of Education Patrick Collins P’09, Associate Professor of Dance Michelle Iklé and Professor of Music Bob Cowles meet with Megan Scheffer, the new Gearan Center secretary.

Students walk in front of the Scandling Campus Center during the first week of classes.

German Veras '17, Marie Claire Hamet '19 and Sydney Gomez '17 check out the new spaces in 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.