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  • Steel Bridge

    Kennesaw State steel bridge team wins award for ingenuity in national competition

    June 30, 2025

    Kennesaw State University鈥檚 Steel Bridge Competition Team recently competed in the 2025 Student Steel Bridge Competition National Finals, finishing seventh overall and earning the Frank J. Hatfield Ingenuity Award for its creative approach to bridge design and construction.

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  • Allison Garefino

    Kennesaw State expands support for student-parents through new grants

    June 30, 2025

    The Institute of Women鈥檚 Policy Research estimates that one college student in five is raising a child while in school, with few institutes of higher learning offering programmatic support. Kennesaw State University bucks the trend with its Children and Family Programs (CFP), which recently received two external grants that will help support student parents.

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  • Brian Culp

    Kennesaw State professor inducted as International Organization for Physical Education in Higher Education fellow

    June 27, 2025

    Kennesaw State University professor Brian Culp was recently inducted as a Fellow of the International Organization for Physical Education in Higher Education (AIESEP), an international society for scholarship in physical education and activity.

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  • William Thompson

    KSU project designing automated exoskeleton to aid stroke victims

    June 26, 2025

    Kennesaw State University student William Thompson is blending engineering with rehabilitation in a project that seeks to design an automated exoskeleton to aid victims of stroke. William Thompson, a mechanical engineering major, is working with Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Ayse Tekes on the project, 鈥淒evelopment and Testing of Bio-Inspired and Lightweight Exoskeleton for Enhanced Upper Body Mobility鈥 as a part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Program.

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  • Robin Puttock

    Kennesaw State assistant professor named 2025 AIA Georgia Educator of the Year

    June 25, 2025

    For demonstrating excellence in teaching, mentorship, and practice-integrated design education, Kennesaw State University assistant professor Robin Puttock has been named the 2025 Educator of the Year by the Georgia chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

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  • Allisa George

    Kennesaw State public health students win gold designation at national competition

    June 24, 2025

    Kennesaw State public health students win gold designation at national competition A team of students in Kennesaw State University鈥檚 Wellstar College of Health and Human Services recently won national recognition at the Society for Public Health Education鈥檚 (SOPHE) National Case Study Competition in Health Education. Recent public health graduate Liz Burchfield teamed with public health students Angel Fortmann and Allisa George to earn a gold designation, one of six universities nationwide to receive this accolade. Associate professor of public health and director of the public health program LaNita Wright advised the trio.

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  • Rasel Mahmud

    KSU researcher awarded prestigious NSF Medium Grant to advance balance technologies in VR

    June 23, 2025

    And for millions of people with subtle or severe balance impairments, VR can become not only frustrating, but inaccessible because VR disrupts their balance further. To help users maintain stability, research at Kennesaw State University is aiming to make VR technology more accessible for all people, especially those with balance impairments.

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  • Taeyeong Choi

    Kennesaw State researchers developing AI-powered drones to protect peanut farms from wildlife

    June 20, 2025

    Feral hogs in Georgia cause an estimated $150 million in agricultural damage each year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. To address this growing threat, Kennesaw State University researchers are launching an AI-powered drone system to autonomously protect peanut fields from nighttime wildlife intrusion and reduce costly crop losses. Supported by a $25,000 Georgia Peanut Commission grant, the one-year Night Owl project is a collaboration between Kennesaw State assistant professors Taeyeong Choi and Yan Fang, and University of Georgia agricultural economist Ford Ramsey.

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  • Sladjana Ray

    Kennesaw State alumna triumphs through adversity to inspire as Gwinnett County educator

    June 18, 2025

    Walking across the stage at Kennesaw State University鈥檚 Commencement ceremony was a remarkable moment for Sladjana Ray 鈥24. Having earned an education specialist degree, it marked her third successful round in higher education, to strengthen her skillset as a history teacher. In the crowd were her daughter, Mima Hrnjak, a nursing student in Kennesaw State鈥檚 Wellstar College of Health and Human Services, and Ray鈥檚 parents. They made the trip from their native Serbia, known as Yugoslavia when Ray migrated to the states in the 鈥90s as a 16-year-old basketball player.

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  • Bon Varlet

    Kennesaw State alumni awarded prestigious Fulbright scholarships

    June 17, 2025

    Continuing a rich tradition of international scholarship, recent Kennesaw State University graduates Bon Varlet and AKeera Ford have earned awards from the prestigious Fulbright Program to extend their studies abroad.

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