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Summer/Fall 2025: Foundations for the Future

In this issue: This issue celebrates the extraordinary success of Keene State College’s fundraising campaign, which exceeded its $20 million goal by reaching 140 percent with support from more than 6,000 donors. Highlighting the impact of this achievement, this edition of Keene State Today showcases how the campaign’s priorities—student support, academic excellence, and high-impact learning experiences—are transforming lives across the campus and beyond.

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Features

Building Careers & The NH Workforce Sustainable Product Design & Innovation Internships
November 3, 2025 –

A destination major for students, SPDI is the only program in New England that combines industrial design, project management, and manufacturing engineering technologies with the lens of sustainability and sound business practices.

The SPDI program, which offers both a major and a minor, embodies the interdisciplinary lens that sets so...

Precision Optics Lab
November 3, 2025 –

Within 100 miles of Keene State, more than 30 companies thrive in singlepoint diamond turning machining, thin films, specialty glass, and advanced optics, with Moore Nanotechnology Systems in Swanzey and AMTEK Precitech in Keene among them.

Starting this fall, Keene State will offer a one-year precision optics certificate that provides...

Nicole Graczewski ’24
November 3, 2025 –

Having earned more than 20 different scholarship awards in high school and college combined, Nicole Graczewski has a deep appreciation and sense of gratitude for giving back and the capacity it has to help others.

Such generosity, she said, gave life to her aspirations to teach.

The Keene State graduate...

Logan Phillips ’25
October 30, 2025 –

The best thing Logan Phillips did as a student was to follow his passion for music.

It wasn’t always a straight line, but in every instance, it was where he was drawn and where he returned.

Now the Keene State graduate (BM Music Education and BM Music Performance) has a...

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