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  • Jennifer Purcell

    Ƶstudents study COVID-19 impact on mothers in higher education

    March 13, 2025

    For the past year, a group of Ƶ students have been synthesizing information from a multi-year study about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on female academics who are also mothers. Led by professor of public administration Jennifer Purcell, the First-Year Scholars project is titled “Women@Work in Higher Education: Barriers and Opportunities for Current and Future Women Leaders,” and involves undergraduates Hannah Anderson, Kyndall Moore, Ana Luisa De Almeida Santos Onofre, and graduate research assistant Morgan Grant.

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  • Architecture Building

    Kennesaw State, Norwegian University of Science and Technology collaboration aims to enhance architecture and sustainability technologies

    March 12, 2025

    Seeking to advance sustainability and environmentally friendly technologies, Ƶ has launched an exchange program with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Launching in May, the program will provide students from both universities with hands-on learning and cross-cultural exchange opportunities.

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  • Andrea Martinez Angulo

    Ƶstudent exploring the use of robotics in agriculture

    March 11, 2025

    As the first person in her family to attend college in the United States, Andrea Martinez Angulo has long been imbued with a tireless work ethic. It was instilled in her by her parents, who brought her to the U.S. from Jalisco, Mexico at 4 years old as her father pursued his career ambitions, and it continued as she was introduced to STEM as a student at Kennesaw Mountain High School. Today, she is well on her way to breaking new ground in robotics as a student in Ƶ’s Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology.

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  • Civility series

    New Ƶevents series promotes virtue of civility

    March 10, 2025

    Generative artificial intelligence is a topic that has launched sometimes heated debates around the world. Last week, however, generative AI was a topic of a discussion held with respect and collegiality at Ƶ. The structure of KSU’s event was intentional. Dubbed Marketplace of Ideas, the back-and-forth discussion on development and regulation of AI between Bill Franks, director of KSU’s Center for Data Science and Analytics, and cybersecurity attorney Camille Stewart Gloster kicked off the Civility Series. A program of the Division of Organizational Effectiveness, Leadership and Institutional Development (OLI), the Civility Series is a slate of events meant to promote and model the virtue of civility within the university community.

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  • Elizabeth Elango

    Ƶalumna leverages international affairs degree to lead Global Village Project

    March 07, 2025

    Elizabeth Elango has long been enthralled with the idea of becoming a diplomat, sparked by an urge to see the world beyond her native Cameroon and by a shared interest in global affairs with her father, former Ƶ history professor Lovett Elango. In 1997, Elango graduated from KSU with a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs and afterward, a master’s degree in African studies at Yale University, where she earned a Fulbright scholarship to Zanzibar, Tanzania. Today, she leads a school for refugee girls in Decatur, the only one in the country.

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  • Aliyah Johnson

    Ƶnursing student collects competitive scholarships, thrives in leadership positions

    March 06, 2025

    Just a sophomore at Ƶ, Aliyah Johnson is well on her way to becoming a leader in the community. She holds numerous student leadership roles while balancing the rigorous courseload in the Wellstar-Tom and Betty Phillips Elite Honors Nursing Scholars program. Her name can be found in the rosters of various registered student organizations, and her commitment to her studies has landed her five competitive scholarships.

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  • University Dining

    Phone app boosts Kennesaw State's Takeout Club waste reduction initiative

    March 05, 2025

    A program where takeout food containers at Ƶ dining halls are returned, washed, and reused has seen its effectiveness skyrocket through use of a phone app. KSU’s Takeout Club program has been in existence for years, but when dining services managers pivoted to an app called Fill it Forward, the return rate for meal containers increased significantly. The system lets dining managers keep accurate track of the inventory of containers in circulation, as well as letting them and Takeout Club members know how much waste is being diverted from garbage dumps – more than a half ton so far.

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  • Sylvia Bhattacharya

    Ƶboosts tech profile with launch of CYPHR

    March 04, 2025

    A research center launched by Ƶ in January seeks to boost the university’s profile in technological advancement and specialize in extended reality and artificial intelligence research. The Center for Cyber Physical Realms (CYPHR) aims to position itself as a national leader through the creation of immersive training modules and adaptive virtual environments that hold transformative potential in healthcare, education, and national defense.

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  • Shifa Jiwani

    Ƶstudent prepares for career in health care with long-term research project

    March 04, 2025

    Ƶ biology student Shifa Jiwani has spent hundreds of hours on a research project that explores how bacteria can synthesize arsenic-containing antibiotics to kill neighboring competitors.

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  • Jen Self

    Ƶgraduate program shines at national orthotics and prosthetics conference

    February 27, 2025

    A current student and two graduates of Ƶ’s Master of Science in Prosthetics and Orthotics program earned honors recently at the Hanger Live Conference in Nashville, a celebrated event in the prosthetics and orthotics industry. Second-year MSPO student Jen Self earned the Student Research Award, and recent graduates Joyc’lynne Williams and Brianna “Taylor” Beard were named Residents of the Year. The three were among a nationwide pool of applicants.

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