Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Assistant Professor of Geoscience Nick Metz poses with students who are taking his first-year seminar, Climate Change: Science & Politics, during the First-Year Seminar Symposium in the Vandervort Room.

Students, faculty and staff fill the Vandervort Room of the Scandling Campus Center for the annual First-Year Seminar Symposium, which provides a platform for first-year students to share their academic work with the campus community.

Semifinalists in the fifth installment of the Stu Lieblein 90 Pitch Contest pose for a photo in the Centennial Center for Leadership (CCL). The contest is an entrepreneurial leadership competition organized by the CCL in which students compete for the top prize, a $10,000 grant to fund their idea.

Eric Weaver, founder and executive director of Overcoming the Darkness, presents his talk Out of the Darkness in Albright Auditorium. The presentation, sponsored by the international psychology honor society Psi Chi and the To Write Love on Her Arms student organization, focused on creating a culture that openly discusses mental illness.

“Take 5,” choreographed by Sophie Halter ’16, takes the stage. Any student can audition for Koshare. Experience in dance in not necessary, although participation does require a large time commitment from students for rehearsals. This year’s Koshare faculty adviser is Professor of Dance Donna Davenport.

Last weekend, the annual Koshare Dance Collective performance was held in the Smith Center for the Arts. This is the 46th year of Koshare, a student-run event, and involved more than 130 dancers in pieces choreographed by 24 HWS students. Photos are presented in the order of performances. Above, students gather on the stage before rehearsal.

Dancers soar in Drew Scammell’s '18 piece “Shadows of a Millennial.”

Dancers Zoe Bradley ’16, Liza Buell ’19, Sophie Halter ’16, Emily Knipper ’18 and Gwen Major-Williams ’18 perform in “Take 5.”

Associate Professor of Political Science Paul Passavant leads a discussion about the book Winner-Take-All Politics by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson in order to understand how the transformation of different political institutions in the U.S. have contributed to the policy outcome of growing economic inequality.

The sun sets over the HWS campus on Thursday evening.

Students in Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Robin Lewis' Group Senior Integrative Experience pose for a photo after completing their final harvest from the HWS Fribolin Farm high tunnel.

Professor of Womens Studies Betty Bayer works with students in her Feminist Theory class as they prepare for their presentations for the upcoming 1977 National Womens Conference at the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

Shruthi Shyam '19, Yating Zhang 19 and Oneal Senra 16 find a relaxing place to study for final exams in the Warren Hunting Smith Library on Wednesday afternoon.

Matthew Fox 19, Jessica Lohre 16 and Joy Gitter 16 paint their own dreidels as part of Hanukkah celebrations in the Abbe Center for Jewish Life.

Assistant Professor of Dance Kelly Johnson leads a movement workshop as part of the Leadership League of Women's Empowerment through Movement day in the Barn.

Director of the Abbe Center for Jewish Life Julianne Miller leads students and community members in the Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony in the Abbe Center on Wednesday night.