The Biology Department faculty, staff, and students mourn the loss of their newest faculty member, Dr. Hanna Kolodziejski, who died at the age of 32 at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston on Feb. 3, 2009. She will be sorely missed.
Dr. Kolodziejski, known to her students as Dr. K, was a brilliant young neuroethologist who had just earned her Ph.D. from Indiana University before accepting the position of Assistant Professor of Biology at Keene State in the fall of 2007. In her short time here, Hanna demonstrated that she was a dedicated and incredibly talented teacher and mentor of undergraduates, as well as a most excellent colleague.
When word of Dr. K’s illness went out last fall, the campus rallied to support her with a remarkably successful bone marrow drive, which registered 195 donors.
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Our family wants to send the Keene State College Community our deepest sympathy for the loss of Dr. Kolodziejski. Our daughter Anna (2011) loved Dr. K so much. This is a very sad time not only for the Keene community but for everyone that Johanna touched. It is extremely hard to understand why a young woman such as Johanna who accomplished so much in her short life is taken away. God Bless and our prayers are sent to her husband and family. Gertrude and Bill McLean parents of Anna P. McLean