20 New First-Year Honors Students
The Keene State College Honors Program is pleased to welcome the following 20 outstanding students into the program for Fall 2011: Allison Bedell, Chris Bohjalian, Brittany Boscarino, Breanna Butler, Kaitlin Conlon, Kaitlyn Conor, Johanna DeBari, Filip Duz, Raven Gill, Marissa Grady, Kristen Hunyadi, Megan Lowell, Julia Oberst, Anna O’Brien, Laura Parzych, William Pearson, Rebecca Rieger, Eliza Smiley, Justin Yamet, and Velvet Young. Congratulations to all of these remarkable first-year students!
The benefits of participating in honors include academic enrichment, a travel/study course, the option of a living/learning community, and scholarship support. Students joining the honors program as sophomores will participate as full members, completing five honors courses in the next three years. Fall electives include courses in literature, art, and global politics.
KSC faculty nominated 87 first-year students based on their exceptional performance in fall courses. All had earned a a GPA of at least 3.5. Twenty students were selected from that pool.
