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Kennesaw State research aims to reduce motor vehicle accidents
September 24, 2024
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that more than 40,000 people died last year in vehicle crashes across the United States, many of those accidents being preventable. To improve roadway safety for motorists everywhere, Kennesaw State University researchers are studying how existing technology can be used to reduce collisions and save lives.
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Kennesaw State education program included in funding for school system grants
September 23, 2024
A partnership with a school system in Georgia has provided a Kennesaw State University education program the opportunity to benefit from a grant to prepare students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. As part of multi-year grants of up to $8.6 million from the Toyota USA Foundation to Fulton County Schools (FCS), the iTeach program in the Bagwell College of Education at Kennesaw State will provide enhanced professional development for teachers around STEM topics.
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Kennesaw State partners with Marietta City Schools to deliver new dual-certification master's program
September 20, 2024
A new partnership between Kennesaw State University’s Bagwell College of Education and Marietta City Schools (MCU) seeks to develop the next generation of teacher-leaders. The Department of Educational Leadership at Kennesaw State University's Bagwell College of Education has launched an innovative partnership with Marietta City Schools aimed at preparing classroom teachers for leadership roles.
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Kennesaw State professor studies leadership styles among CEOs
September 20, 2024
The gender of a chief executive officer (CEO) may serve as a good indicator of the strategies and initiatives a company will pursue, particularly in the ways a company gives back to society. In a recent article published in the European Journal of Marketing, Kennesaw State University assistant professor Prachi Gala found that women CEOs often choose human-centered approaches when giving back to society.
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Kennesaw State student uses childhood as motivation for academic success
September 19, 2024
The old adage that looks can be deceiving could certainly apply to Maria Benitez Blanco. On the exterior, she has long, styled hair and big, dark eyes that light up when she smiles. Her painted fingernails are long and adorned with little jewels on each nail. But on the interior, Blanco is courageous, passionate and full of grit. “I had a rough childhood,” said Blanco, who now studies construction management at Kennesaw State University.
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Kennesaw State engineering student leverages aerospace interest into high-impact internships
September 18, 2024
Reflecting on her childhood, Lucile Duncan can see that much of her interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) was nurtured by her engineer father. Her early exposure to the field came from frequent interactions with his colleagues and visits to their workplaces. She spent weekends with these professionals and joined them for lunch during summer breaks, which introduced her to engineering at a young age. It was those interactions that ultimately led her to pursue mechanical engineering at Kennesaw State University’s Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology.
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Researcher shines spotlight on women in theater leadership
September 17, 2024
Amanda Morgan wrote the book on women in theater. Literally. The result of a yearslong effort, the Kennesaw State University associate professor of theatre and performance studies saw her vision come to fruition last year in the form of a book titled “Conversations with Women in Musical Theatre Leadership,” a compilation of 15 interviews with women leaders at the Broadway level.
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Kennesaw State incubator hatching startups in tech, finance, agriculture, and more
September 16, 2024
Need to finance a new heating and cooling system for your house? Or maybe you’re interested in adding culinary mushroom production to your farm. Perhaps your college-aged child with ADHD could use some support to thrive. Turns out, there’s a startup company to help with each of those issues, and they’re all growing at Kennesaw State University in the HatchBridge Incubator.
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Board of Regents honors Kennesaw State professor with teaching award
September 13, 2024
The University System of Georgia Board of Regents has recognized a Kennesaw State University professor with an Award for Excellence in Teaching. Sara Evans, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and the director of the criminal justice master’s degree program, received one of the two Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Awards the Board of Regents confers each year.
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Kennesaw State researchers earn second NSF grant to advance theoretical particle research
September 12, 2024
The beat goes on for Kennesaw State University researchers Nikolaos Kidonakis and Marco Guzzi. The two have received their second joint grant in three years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance the study of the Higgs boson —also known as the “God particle,” the top quark, and the proton, which are relevant to the physics program of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland.
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