Academic Excellence Conference
The Academic Excellence Celebration—or AEC for short!—celebrates student creativity, scholarship, and co-curricular activity. Meet some of the students participating in this year’s AEC and get a sneak peek at what they’ve been working on below:
Eli Goss ‘26, Erin Ciempa ‘26, and Erin Cole ‘26 began the HoneyPod as a hypothetical exercise in making an uncomfortable space welcoming, and ended up as a physical structure traveling across the country as a trade-show attraction and conversation piece.
Hear how these Architecture students took their idea from planning to product in this feature, and check out their work and tons of other research at the Academic Excellence Celebration on April 17th!
How do you communicate on your feet? What is the best way to present meaning through embodied motion?
Ashley Doyle ‘26, a theatre and dance major, who has danced and choreographed in numerous productions at Keene State College, says she wonders how language and dance intersect and that dance is an exploration of communication. Ashley took that intellectual curiosity about communicating to Florence, Italy, for a dance intensive that allowed her real-life experience with dancing across language barriers.