KSC's Communicorps: Students Design for the Community

KEENE, N.H., 5/8/08 - For 16 years, students from Keene State College's Communicorps class have solved design problems for community organizations in the Monadnock region. This required course in the ...   more

Becker Wins People's Choice Art Award at KSC Student Exhibition

KEENE, N.H., 5/5/08 - Keene State College senior art major Jessica Becker of Derry, N.H., was voted the winner of the People's Choice Award for a painting called Family Dinner displayed in "Emerging A...   more

KSC Dorm Awarded Leed® Green Building Silver Certification

KEENE, N.H. 4/28/08 - Keene State College's Pondside III residence hall has received LEED® Silver Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). LEED® is the USGBC's rating system for des...   more

Blogging to Stand-Up Comedy to Introductory Chinese to Yoga at Kids on Campus

KEENE, N.H., 04/30/08 - Registration for Kids on Campus, Keene State College's Continuing Education and Extended Studies summer program for first through ninth graders, is open. Combining fun and l...   more

KSC Spring Concert Hosts Nashua Symphony Chorus

KEENE, N.H., 4/15/08 - The KSC Chamber Singers and the KSC Concert Choir will perform their spring concert on Friday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Alumni Recital Hall of the Redfern Arts Center on Br...   more

Keene State College Emergency Systems Testing on April 23

KEENE, N.H. 4/17/08 - Keene State College will be testing a newly installed emergency siren warning system on Wed., Apr. 23, between 1 and 2 p.m. A series of combined voice and siren warnings will be ...   more

KSC Jazz Ensemble to Perform "Portraits of Jazz," a Mixed Media Event

KEENE, N.H., 04/12/08, "Portraits of Jazz," a mixed-media concert featuring the Keene State College Jazz Ensemble and the artwork of a KSC alumnus, will be featured on Wednesday, April 30, at 7:30 p.m...   more

Honorary Degree, 2008 Granite State Awards Presented at Keene State College's Commencement May 11

KEENE, N.H., 4/9/08 - President Helen Giles-Gee will award associate's, bachelor's, and master's degrees to more than 900 graduates at Keene State College's Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, May 11. Th...   more

KSC Student Newspaper Wins 15 Journalist Awards

Keene, N.H., 4/11/08 - The Society for Collegiate Journalists (SJC) has announced that the Keene State College student newspaper, The Equinox, received 15 awards in the national 2007 SJC comp...   more

Acting Company Brings Orson Welles's Stage Adaptation, Moby Dick, Rehearsed, to Keene

KEENE, N.H. - The Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond and Keene's Colonial Theatre will present the award-winning Acting Company in Orson Welles's adaptation of the classic Herman Melville novel, more

Arthur Miller And The Holocaust Is Topic Of Grayson Lecture At Keene State College

KEENE, N.H., 4/5/08 - Theatre historian Christopher Bigsby will present the annual Janet Grayson Lecture in Literary Studies, "How Jewish Is He? Arthur Miller and the Holocaust" on Thurs., Apr. 10, at...   more

Storytelling for Children Conference at Keene State College Explores Why Stories Are Powerful

KEENE, N.H., 4/3/08 - Storyteller Laura Simms will be the keynote speaker at Keene State College's Storytelling for Children Conference on Sat., Apr. 12. Now in its 16th year, this annual conference b...   more

KSC Opera Workshop Performs Scenes from Gilbert and Sullivan to Mozart

KEENE, N.H., 03/31/08 - The KSC Opera Workshop will present a variety of opera scenes on Friday, April 11, 2008, at 7:30 p.m. in the Alumni Recital Hall of the Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond. A...   more

KSC Faculty Artists Recital To Feature Works by Brahms and Schubert

KEENE, N.H., 04/01/08 - Keene State College faculty members will be joined by guest artists in a recital of works by Johannes Brahms and Franz Schubert, Tuesday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Alumni R...   more

An Evening of Dance Celebrates Its 33rd Year

KEENE, N.H., 03/28/08 - KSC's anticipated An Evening of Dance, now in its 33rd year, is scheduled for Wednesday to Saturday, April 16 to 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Theatre of the Redfern Arts Center...   more

KSC Sidore Lecture on Endocrine Disruptors and Amphibian Decline

KEENE, N.H., 3/17/08 - Dr. Tyrone Hayes, a professor in the department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, will present "From Silent Spring to Silent Night of Toads and M...   more

KSC Program Featured in National Film

KEENE, N.H., 2/29/08 - The Association of American Colleges and Universities TV (AAC&U TV) unveiled a recently produced film, Keene State College's Integrative Studies Program: Transforming Learning, ...   more

KSC Earns Place on President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

KEENE, N.H., 2/19/08 - Keene State College has received presidential recognition for extraordinary contributions to community service in the second annual 2007 President's Higher Education Community S...   more

Rebecca Rule to Give KSC's 2008 Mason Library Lecture

KEENE, N.H., 2/19/08 - Rebecca Rule will present Keene State College's 2008 Mason Library Lecture, "The Power of Story," on Wed., Mar. 5, at 4:30 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room, Student Center. Rule is...   more

KSC President Commits to 'Climate Neutral' Campus

Giles-Gee Joins Growing List of Higher Education Leaders to Fight Global Warming KEENE, N.H., 5/17/07 - Keene State College President Helen Giles-Gee has signed the American College & Univ...   more

BBBS, Kalich Win Campus Compact Awards

KEENE, N.H., 4/24/07 - Campus Compact of New Hampshire recognized Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Monadnock Region, their KSC student volunteers, and KSC Assistant Professor Karrie Kalich at the annu...   more

Kenneth Jue to Address Keene State Grads

KEENE, N.H., 4/6/06 - Kenneth Jue, chief executive officer of Monadnock Family Services, will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree and address KSC graduates at the College Commencement ...   more

Final KSC 2007 Sidore Lecture: The Political Economy of Care

KEENE, N.H., 4/9/07 - Time spent caring for others is undervalued today, in the household and in the labor market. Nancy Folbre, an economist who teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, w...   more

Thomas Oliphant Presents KSC's Mason Library Lecture

KEENE, N.H., 4/9/07 - Will New Hampshire again go Blue for President in 2008? The last two elections hint it might ... and all thanks to George W. Bush and the Democrats' secret weapon: voters who wer...   more

KSC Hosts Annual Academic Excellence Conference

KEENE, N.H., 3/27/07 - Join Keene State College students and their sponsors to learn about some of the most ambitious academic work of the 2006-07 year at the College's Seventh Annual Academic Excelle...   more

Rebuilding Afghanistan's Economy - KSC's Sidore Lecture Series on Political Economy

KEENE, N.H., 2/22/07 - Can loans as small as $100 to people too poor to borrow from banks be effective? Recent experience with these loans (mostly given to women in developing countries) suggests this...   more

Carnegie Foundation Classifies Keene State a Community Engaged College

KEENE, N.H., 12/11/06 - Keene State College is one of 76 U.S. colleges and universities that have been recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for making community engage...   more

USNH Board Ratifies Three-Year Contract with Keene State College Faculty

KEENE, N.H. 10/19/06 - The USNH board of trustees ratified a three-year contract with Keene State College faculty at today's meeting on the KSC campus. A tentative agreement between the administra...   more

KSC Professors Sander Lee and Klaus Bayr Receive Faculty Research Awards

KEENE, N.H. 5/2/06 - Dr. Sander Lee, professor of philosophy, and Dr. Klaus Bayr, professor of geography, have been chosen to receive the Keene State College Award for Faculty Distinction in Research ...   more

Putnam and Williams to Address Keene State Grads

KEENE, N.H. 4/27/06 - James A. Putnam, president of MARKEM Corporation, and Julius P. Williams, composer and professor at Berklee College of Music, will receive honorary doctoral degrees and address K...   more

Keene State College Celebrates Inauguration of Dr. Helen Giles-Gee

KEENE, N.H. 4/17/06 - Keene State College will inaugurate its ninth president, Dr. Helen Giles-Gee, on Friday, April 28, at 2 p.m. in Spaulding Gymnasium. Last July, Dr. Giles-Gee succeeded Dr. St...   more

Conference "Shines a Light " on the Effects of Poverty on Teaching and Learning

KEENE, N.H. 3/24/06 - New Hampshire has the highest per capita income in the United States, but the income disparity between towns within a 50-mile radius of the Keene State College campus can be huge...   more

KSC Hosts Annual Academic Excellence Conference

KEENE, N.H. 3/20/06 - Keene State College will host the Academic Excellence Conference on Saturday, April 1. The conference, now in its sixth year, is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas among...   more

Panel Focuses on Help for At-Risk Children

KEENE, N. H. 3/10/06 -According to the current Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2005 Kids Count Data Book, the overall well-being of New Hampshire's children is ranked first in the nation. However 7,000 Ne...   more

Keene State Names Buffalo State Dean as New Provost

KEENE, N.H. 3/10/06 - Dr. Emile C. Netzhammer III, dean of arts and humanities at Buffalo State College of the State University of New York, has been named provost of Keene State College after a natio...   more

Provost Candidates Visit KSC

KEENE, N.H. 1/25/06 - After having reviewed over 120 applications, Keene State College's Provost Search Committee has completed initial interviews and invited three candidates to campus. The candidate...   more

Three-Day KSC Symposium Addresses Globalization

KEENE, N.H. 10/25/05 - A term much used but seldom defined, "globalization" can be a force either positive or dangerous, depending on your view of the world. Most of human economics, politics, technol...   more

"Medicine and Social Justice" Topic of Ewing Lecture

KEENE, N.H. 10/13/05 - In a reflection of his work with Partners in Health in rural communities in Haiti, Dr. David Walton wrote, "I came to realize that the poor deserve preferential treatment. Disea...   more

N.H. Emergency Personnel Use New KSC/UNH Public Safety Management System

KEENE, N.H. 10/13/05 - Last October, U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) secured a $2 million appropriation from the U.S. Department of Justice for Keene State College and the University of New Hampshire to...   more

Ewing Lecture on Medicine and Social Justice at KSC

KEENE, N.H. 10/13/05 - In a reflection of his work with Partners in Health in rural communities in Haiti, Dr. David Walton wrote, "I came to realize that the poor deserve preferential treatment. Disea...   more

Keene State Website Recognized by National Admissions Group

KEENE, N.H. 10/3/05 - The Keene State College website designed to attract new students has received recognition as the best of its kind in New England. In its seventh annual analysis of more than ...   more

Fall Sidore Lecture:
Ongoing Darfur Genocide Topic of Talk

KEENE, N.H. 10/5/05 - Since February 2003, more than 180,000 people have been killed or died from starvation and disease, and nearly two million have been driven from their homes by the violence in th...   more

Keene State Profiled by 2005 Princeton Review

KEENE, N.H. 10/5/05 - Keene State College is one of 224 select colleges and universities in the Northeast that The Princeton Review profiles in the 2006 edition of its book The Best Northeastern Colle...   more

Keene State Announces 2005-06 Lecture Series

Keene, N.H. 9/9/05 - The slender line between life and death for people in war-torn countries and in nations devastated by natural disasters, such as Sudan and Haiti, will be examined in Keene State C...   more

Keene State Names 2005 Distinguished Teacher

KEENE, N.H. 8/31/05 - Dr. Gregory Knouff, associate professor of history and chair of the history department, will receive the 2005 Distinguished Teacher Award from the Keene State College Alumni Asso...   more

Redfern Arts Center Celebrates 25th Anniversary Season

KEENE, NH 8/13/05 - This year Keene State College's Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond will mark its 25th season as a performing arts center. The season will celebrate the work of many of the l...   more

Dr. Neil Sullivan, Civil Rights Pioneer, Dies at 90

KEENE, N.H. 8/12/05 - Neil Sullivan, a 1936 graduate of Keene Normal School and one of the College's most distinguished alumni, died on Saturday, Aug. 6. An more

Keene State College Launches Safety and Emergency Management Certificate Program

KEENE, N.H. 8/3/05 - Professionals in healthcare, education, law enforcement, business, and industry can now earn a Safety and Emergency Management Certificate offered by Keene State College. This ...   more

Education, Birding, and Computer Courses Among August and September Offerings at Keene State College

KEENE, N.H. 8/1/05 - A course on migratory birds, three education courses, and several computer classes are among the many weekend and short-term courses starting in late August and September at Keene...   more

Governor Lynch Visits Keene State

Tim Allen (right), professor of geology, and Melinda Treadwell (left), assistant professor of technology, design and safety, explain the workings of an isotope mass spectrometer to Governor John Lynch...   more

Transition the Focus of Summer Institute

Next month, local special educators will gather at Keene State for an institute on integrating transition (from high school to post-high school) techniques into Individualized Education Programs for s...   more

Woodsville High Student Will Receive Inaugural "Dr. Y" Scholarship

KEENE, N.H. 6/10/05 - Stanley J. Yarosewick, who retires from the presidency at Keene State College on June 30, has left a legacy that originates from his own roots. A scholarship endowment named f...   more

KSC President Yarosewick Honored by Plymouth State University

KEENE, N.H. 5/27/05 - Keene State College President Stanley J. Yarosewick received the Harold E. Hyde Award at the Plymouth State University commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 21, on the PSU campu...   more

Familiar Faces about to Leave Keene State, and the U.S.

KEENE, N.H. 5/6/05 - Keene is a long way from home for Nouran Meho and Francisco Vasconcelos. The students, who hail from Amman, Jordan, and Lisbon, Portugal, respectively, will graduate from Keene St...   more

Synergy the Key in Food Science Competition

KEENE, N.H. 5/4/05 - Last Wednesday, Instructor Becky Dunn's Food Science class collaborated with area Sodexho chefs in the third annual Nutrition Synergy Competition. The class of eleven students div...   more

Cooking Up a Community Storm

KEENE, N.H. 5/4/05 - Students in Instructor Karrie Kalich's Health Science 217 - Applied Nutrition Science Lab - know not only how to read the nutrition label on a jar of pinto beans or a box of brown...   more

Educators Can Take Weekend and Evening Summer Courses Starting in May at Keene State College

KEENE, N.H. 4/27/05 - Numerous weekend and evening summer courses are offered for educators at Keene State College in May and June when teachers are still minding their own students. Eight courses are...   more

Japanese to Jazz Courses Offered This Summer at Keene State

KEENE, N.H. 4/27/05 - Introduction to Japanese Language and Culture, Jazz and the Cinema, and Introduction to Web Design are three of the many courses offered this summer at Keene State College. Six- ...   more

Larry Welkowitz Honored with Faculty Research Award

KEENE, N.H. 4/26/05 - Dr. Larry Welkowitz, associate professor of psychology, has been chosen to receive the Keene State College Award for Faculty Distinction in Research and Scholarship for 2004-05. ...   more

Dr. Helen Giles-Gee Selected to Become 9th President of Keene State College

KEENE, N.H. 4/25/05 - University System of New Hampshire (USNH) Chancellor Stephen J. Reno announced today that Dr. Helen Giles-Gee will be the next president of Keene State College (KSC). Dr. Giles-G...   more

Fall Openings Still Remain at Keene State

KEENE, N.H. 4/18/05 - Applications for admission to Keene State College suggest that KSC will enroll another academically strong class this fall, but some openings still remain for the Class of 2009, ...   more

Gordon Leversee Appointed Interim Academic VP

KEENE, N.H. 4/14/05 - Dr. Gordon Leversee, dean of sciences and social sciences at Keene State College, has been appointed interim vice president for academic affairs, KSC President Stanley J. Yarosew...   more

John Couture Appointed Dean of Professional and Graduate Studies at KSC

KEENE, N.H. 4/4/05 - Dr. John Couture, who has served as interim dean of the School of Graduate and Professional Studies since July, 2004, has been appointed Dean of the School. His appointment begins...   more

Summer Institutes for Educators Abound at Keene State College

KEENE, N.H. 3/17/05 - Educators may continue their own education this summer at Keene State College, which offers numerous institutes on such topics as Storytelling in the Classroom, Conflict Resoluti...   more

Exploring Our World:
The Fifth Annual Academic Excellence Conference

Contaminants in the Ashuelot River, teaching dance to visually impaired children, and the usefulness of roundabouts as solutions to traffic congestion will be among presentations by students at Keene ...   more

"Tribal People: The Dilemma of Change" Anthropologists Speak in James D. Ewing Lecture at Keene State

KEENE, N.H. 3/4/05 - As countries become more aggressive in economic development, threats to the survival of the indigenous peoples of the world increase, according to Kirk Endicott, professor of anth...   more

Service-Learning: Theory, Experience, and Reflection

"Teaching is what I want to do," Emily Spencer told the group that gathered for Keene State's first service-learning summit, which was held at the College on Friday. More than 50 faculty and represent...   more

2005 Spring Sidore Lecture: Bishop Gene Robinson Will Discuss 'Moral Values'

KEENE, N.H. 1/25/05 - V. Gene Robinson was invested as the ninth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire on March 7, 2004. He was the first openly gay man in the Episcopal Church to be electe...   more

Keene State's OSHA Center Partners with UMass New England Consortium

KEENE, N.H. 1/3/05 - The Region I (New England) OSHA Training Institute Education Center in Manchester, administered by Keene State College, in partnership with The New England Consortium (TNEC) at th...   more

Keene State's Safety Center Offers Online Construction Safety Course

KEENE, N.H. 1/3/05 - The Keene State College Safety Center, in partnership with ClickSafety.com, Inc., now offers online the Ten-Hour Outreach Course in OSHA's Construction Safety and Health Standards...   more

Health and Education Courses Start in February at Keene State

KEENE, N.H. 1/3/05 - Health and education courses along with computer and paralegal classes start in February at Keene State College through the Office of Continuing Education and Extended Studies. ...   more

KSC Announces Spring Lectures

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart" - Victor Hugo
This spring, Keene State will host a number of dynamic speakers and events of scholarship. Mark these dates in yo...   more

KSC Students, Faculty Seek New Connections with Local Community

Note: This story is about the 2005 Service Learning Summit. The 2006 Service Learning Summit will be held February 3, 2006. KEENE, N.H. 12/9/04 - A Service Learning Summit, to be held at Kee...   more

"A Taste of Keene" Will Benefit KSC Nutrition Scholarship and Meals on Wheels

KEENE, N.H. 11/8/04 - Local residents will have the chance to sample food from area restaurants at the third annual "A Taste of Keene," to be held on Sunday, Nov. 14,
11 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Colony...   more

UNH and Keene State Share $2 Million in Federal Funds
For National Public Safety Management Project

DURHAM and KEENE, N.H. - The University of New Hampshire and Keene State College have received $2 million in joint federal funds from the U.S. Department of Justice to develop a national public safety...   more

Studying Abroad: Taking Students Out of America and Into the World

KEENE, N.H. 9/21/04 - It's a big world out there, says Marché Brown, director of the National and International Exchange Center. And she intends to see as many Keene State students as possible expand ...   more

Faculty Named for Tenure, Promotion

KEENE, N.H. 9/15/04 - The University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees, on recommendation from its Academic Affairs Committee, has promoted 12 Keene State College faculty members, awarding ten...   more

Butterfield Lung Disease Research Lab Opened

KEENE, N.H. 7/14/04 - Air is filled with pollutants that humans should not be inhaling. A new, $1-million research project at Keene State will help identify these pollutants and investigate their effe...   more

John Couture Appointed Dean of Prof. and Grad. Studies

KEENE, N.H. 7/15/04 - John Couture, associate professor of education, has assumed the position of interim dean of the School of Graduate and Professional Studies. Couture replaces Dav...   more

Fall Registration Opens at Keene State College

KEENE, N.H. 6/24/04 - The Keene State College Continuing Education Office opens fall semester registration Tuesday, July 6, through Wednesday, Aug. 25, for courses that run the full semester, Aug. 30-...   more

KSC Offers Weekend and Weeklong Courses in Summer

KEENE, N.H. 6/24/04 - Numerous weekend and weeklong courses ranging from a Writer's Conference to Latin American Music are scheduled in July and August at Keene State College through the Office of Con...   more

Accomplishments of Professional and Graduate Studies Faculty

KEENE, N.H. 6/16/04 - These are among accomplishments of Keene State College Professional and Graduate Studies faculty since the winter: Raymond Jobin, education instructor, presen...   more

Summer Institutes For Educators Abound At KSC

KEENE, N.H. 5/7/04 - Educators may continue their own education this summer at Keene State College, which offers numerous institutes on such topics as the No Child Left Behind legislation, the arts an...   more

Region I OSHA Education Center Offers 8 Courses In June

KEENE, N.H. 5/12/04 - The Region I (New England) OSHA Training Institute Education Center, in Manchester, N.H., has scheduled eight safety courses in June. The Institute is authorized by the U.S. Depa...   more

Starting from Scratch: Student Designers Manufacture a Dry-land Training Bench for Swimmers

KEENE, N.H. 5/13/04 - Training for swimming is not just jumping in the pool and doing laps. To avoid injury and to ensure their fitness over a long season, swimmers need to train, as it were, on dry l...   more

Keene State Invites Fall Semester Applications

KEENE, N.H. 5/5/04 - Keene State College is currently accepting applications for the fall 2004 semester. Peggy Richmond, director of admissions, says that there are still places for first-year, transf...   more

Summer Registration Under Way at Keene State College

KEENE, N.H. 4/9/04 - The Keene State College Continuing Education Office is now taking registrations for Summer Session courses. Numerous courses are offered in two, six-week summer sessions starting ...   more

27th Annual Children's Literature Festival Oct. 25

KEENE, N.H. 10/15/03 - A Newbery Honor Award winner and a writer-photographer who has worked on archeological sites with the Leakey family in Kenya are two of the featured speakers at the 27th annual ...   more

KSC Honors Distinguished Teacher, Parent, Granite State Recipient

KEENE, N.H. 10/8/03 - Keene State College's distinguished teacher for the year 2003, the parent of the year, two Granite State Award winners, and the community service award winner all will be honored...   more

Keene State Welcomes New Faculty Members

KEENE, N.H. 9/23/03 - Nine new professors and two instructors in full-time, tenure-track positions began working at Keene State College this fall. Six other new appointments for one-year positions als...   more

Health and Wellness Courses Offered this Fall

KEENE, N.H. 7/24/03 - A healthy lifestyle is important no matter what the season. This fall the Keene State College Continuing Education Office is offering health and wellness courses that range from ...   more

Updated: April 7, 2008