Keene State College presented Julio DelSesto, Professor of Journalism, Multimedia and Public Relations, with its 2022 Distinguished Teacher Award during a Community Breakfast on campus August 22. The award recognizes excellence in teaching, encouragement of independent thinking, rapport with students, and student advising. DelSesto is the 52nd recipient of this high honor. . Student-nominated candidates must be full-time, tenure-track faculty with at least three years’ teaching time at Keene State. The previous five honorees are Katherine Tirabassi, English; Vince Ferlini, Mathematics; Denise Junge, Chemistry; and Rebecca Davis-Kelly, Graphic design. . DelSesto, a 2007 Keene State graduate, is also the new department chair.
Photo courtesy of Emma Hamilton 18
Emma Hamilton ’18 was the first woman to co-anchor the Keene State College’s weekly sports recap show, Inside Owl Athletics, and now she’s the weekend morning anchor at WJCL News in Savannah, Georgia. Emma’s passion for broadcast journalism has paved a place for her in the industry and it all started at Keene State.
Emma found herself drawn to the journalism department at the beginning of her sophomore year and quickly immersed herself into the program with video projects, photo illustrations, and writing articles for
The Equinox, the award-winning student newspaper. When she took Broadcast Journalism with Journalism Department Chair Dr. Chad Nye, she knew she found her calling.