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  • Kennesaw State celebrates Katie Kaukinen as Norman J. Radow Endowed Dean

    Kennesaw State celebrates Katie Kaukinen as Norman J. Radow Endowed Dean's Chair

    August 09, 2024

    Catherine (Katie) Kaukinen was installed as the Dr. Norman J. Radow Endowed Dean’s Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences during an investiture celebration at Kennesaw State University on Thursday.

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  • KSU student aims to uncover work of Caribbean playwrights

    KSU student aims to uncover work of Caribbean playwrights

    August 09, 2024

    Ebony Golden is a theatre and performance studies major at Kennesaw State University whose project, “Jouvay Women: Rejuvenating Classical Theatre in the Caribbean,” is part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Program.

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  • President Kathy S. Schwaig speaks at Launch 24.

    Kennesaw State maps path to growth, increased national prominence

    August 08, 2024

    Kennesaw State University leaders have unveiled “Taking Flight,” a new strategic plan that embraces the institution’s status as an emerging top public research university, while expanding its impact through excellence in teaching, relevant research, and community partnerships that benefit the region, state, and nation.

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  • Kennesaw State

    Kennesaw State's Kaukinen, Gay chosen for USG Executive Leadership Institute

    August 07, 2024

    Kennesaw State University’s Catherine (Katie) Kaukinen and Stephen Gay have been selected to participate in the 2024-2025 cohort of the University System of Georgia’s Executive Leadership Institute

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  • Emma Hunt

    Owl Olympians competing for hammer throw and speed climbing medals in Paris

    August 02, 2024

    At a climbing gym on Busbee Parkway, a Kennesaw State University student scales a sheer wall as fast as anyone in the world in the sport of speed climbing. Back on campus, on a patch of pavement near The Perch, a coach and two athletes have put KSU on the map in track and field’s weight throws. Two of the three are rewriting KSU athletics history at the Paris Olympic Games now underway.

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  • Fernando Orfila

    KSU student aims to improve fitness through gamification app

    August 01, 2024

    Fernando Orfila is a computer science major at Kennesaw State University who is working to create an app that aims to keep people interested in their health and wellness goals through gamification. Orfila is conducting research under Assistant Professor of Game Development Lei Zhang as part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP), which is sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research.

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  • Sohyun An

    Kennesaw State professor awarded $3.5 million Spencer Foundation Grant

    July 30, 2024

    In conjunction with an ongoing effort to address the dearth of Asian American studies in K-12 school curriculums, Kennesaw State University professor Sohyun An is among a group of researchers recently awarded a prestigious $3.5 million Transformative Research Grant from the Spencer Foundation. The first of its kind awarded by the foundation, the grant supports a robust collaborative research effort focused on supporting the integration of Asian American studies in the classroom.

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  • Simon Kawasaki

    Passion for opera fuels Kennesaw State student's research

    July 29, 2024

    What would America without opera look or sound like? Kennesaw State University music major Simon Kawasaki shudders at the thought, but his project through KSU’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program considers that very possibility, one of a handful of summer projects from the College of the Arts.

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  • Britt Walker

    KSU student designs 3D-printed robotic glove for hand rehabilitation

    July 25, 2024

    A research project conducted by Kennesaw State University sophomore Britt Walker aims to provide personized hand rehabilitation through the use of a 3D-printed robotic glove.

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  • Toni Kamau

    Kennesaw State student finds focus, motivation in promise of DNA research

    July 23, 2024

    Toni Kamau is a digger. When something grabs the Kennesaw State University sophomore’s attention, she wants to find out everything about it she can, which serves her well in research. “When I assigned a goal for Toni and she reached that goal, she had the initiative to go further,” said Chloe Xie, assistant professor of information technology and Kamau’s research mentor in the First-Year Scholar’s Program. Last fall and spring semesters, Kamau worked with Xie, along with other students to examine processes of how DNA is damaged and how it repairs itself.

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