Professional Activities

Julia Dutton, KSC adjunct faculty member in French and French teacher at St. Joseph Regional School in Keene, was named the 2009 World Language Teacher of Excellence by the NH Association of World Language Teachers at the NHAWLT Conference on October 23. The award is presented to an outstanding New Hampshire world language teacher who is an advocate for language learning within and beyond the classroom and who has contributed to the world language teaching profession in the state of New Hampshire. Dutton is a board member and past president of NHAWLT.

The men’s Ice Hockey team coached by Bert Poirier (Admissions) and Bobby Rodrigue (class of 2000) held a clinic for local high school age players November 9-20. The clinic consisted of on-ice instruction with an emphasis on individual hockey skills development, team tactics, safety, and fair play. A total of 32 players, mostly from Monadnock Regional High School and Keene High School, participated in this two-week-long minicamp, which also provided an opportunity for members on the KSC Hockey team to instruct and mentor young players.

Colin Abernethy (Chemistry) gave an invited seminar at the University of New Hampshire on November 17. He presented “Ring-slip and ligand death: The unexpected happens in the carbene and germylene chemistry of vanadium” and described some of the results of his student research program.