Keene State Academic Life

Innovation, creativity, and hard work were on display at the L.P. Young Student Center during Keene State College’s Spring Academic Showcase on May 1st.

The annual event celebrates the outstanding projects students complete throughout the semester giving the campus community a chance to explore research, presentations, and creative work from a wide range of majors.

Congratulations to all the students who shared their work and helped make this year's showcase a success!

More than a dozen older adults are on the path to better fitness and mobility thanks to KSC Exercise Science students. For their final project, these students from Dr. Mel Adams' HPEX-332 Exercise Testing & Programming class were each paired with a senior adult client. The students gave each client a fitness and mobility test. Following the assessment, the students designed a short fitness program for their clients who went home with a plan to improve their fitness. Bringing the community into the classroom to improve quality of life is a part of academic life at KSC!

Photos (Clockwise)
📸 #1: Connor Holbrook
📷 #2: Trevor Simonds
📷 #3: Abby Dowling & Ella DiMatteo
📷 #4: Hunter Stanchfield

New Hampshire U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (right) recently visited KSC to get an up close look at our growing optics program. Keene State is helping supply New Hampshire's optics industry with a well trained workforce through the college's innovative Precision Optics Certificate Program. Students cam be workforce ready by completing 30-credits in just two semesters! And ... if they'd like to make it a four year degree, its a seamless transition. Workforce development and academic excellence go hand-in-hand in Keene State Academic Life.

Shoutout to Keene State College seniors, Olivia Shaw and Kenneth Corrao for being named Outstanding Future Professionals by the New Hampshire Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance!

Olivia, from New Ipswich, NH, and Kenneth, from Sayville, NY, are both graduating in 2026 as Physical Education majors. Olivia plans to stay in New Hampshire to teach, while Kenneth is hoping to head back to Long Island to start his career.

Connecting to professional organizations to help extend your learning and to help launch your career is part of academic life at KSC!

Learning LIVE! KSC students use what they learn in the classroom to help connect campus and the community. These JRN-399 Livestream Production students recently provided the livestream for the 2026 President's Outstanding Women of New Hampshire Awards held in the Mable Brown Room. Service learning opportunities are abundant in KSC academic life.

Come explore the work of Paolo Porelli on paper and in ceramic in his exhibition titled "Present & Future Icons" now showing at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery. These works explore the conflict and symbiosis present in the relationship between people and nature and, and "the biodiversity of the complex and miraculous balance that created life on earth," according to Porelli. Just two days left to catch this exhibition before it closes on Friday, March 14th. Gallery hours are 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. See the flipbook for this exhibition here: https://publuu.com/flip-book/942676/2338130

It’s commencement day! Congratulations class of 2024!