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  • Engineer of the Year

    Electrical engineering professor Lance Crimm has been named 2019 Engineer of the Year by the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers (GSPE), marking the second time in four years a Kennesaw State University faculty member has received the state’s highest honor.  –  November 02, 2018

  • Kennesaw State to salute America's veterans

    Kennesaw State University’s Army ROTC Club and Military and Veteran Services will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI with a salute to America’s veterans on Thursday, Nov. 8. Retired U.S. Air Force flight surgeon Dr. Russell K. Gore will deliver the keynote address.  –  November 01, 2018

  • Kennesaw State to hold Ethics Awareness Week

    Kennesaw State will host Ethics Awareness Week, Nov. 11-17. The theme, Celebrating our Ethical Culture, will bring awareness to the importance of an ethical culture and to recognize and promote the University’s shared core values of integrity, excellence, accountability and respect. Ethics Awareness Week is part of the USG’s comprehensive Ethics and Compliance Program. This includes a system-level Ethics Policy and Code of Conduct, on-board ethics training, periodic ethics refresher training, compliance audits, special reviews and an Ethics and Compliance Reporting Hotline.  –  October 31, 2018

  • Making her mark

    Like the popular “Fearless Girl” statue in Manhattan’s Financial District, 24-year-old Lauren Simmons (Psychology, ’16) isn’t afraid of Wall Street’s iconic “Charging Bull” at the opposite end of the plaza. The Marietta native has proved she can hold her own with the denizens of Wall Street. For the past year and a half, the Kennesaw State alum has worked as a stockbroker on the frenetic floor of the New York Stock Exchange. As the NYSE’s first full-time female stockbroker, she has stood her ground and drawn plenty of supporters.  –  October 31, 2018

  • Written by Whitten | Serving Students with CARE

    Serving our students is the number one goal at Kennesaw State University. While many excellent programs on campus share in this aspiration, one takes that dedication a step further. Campus Awareness, Resource & Empowerment (CARE) Services does work that makes a direct impact on students and engages with the community in very tangible ways.  –  October 30, 2018

  • Four finalists named for KSU Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs

    Four finalists have been named in the search for Kennesaw State’s next provost and vice president of academic affairs. Each candidate will visit the Kennesaw and Marietta campuses to meet with various campus constituencies. As part of the on-campus interview process, each candidate also will hold public presentations, which are open to all KSU faculty, staff, and students.  –  October 30, 2018

  • Reaching Out

    When Leigh Martin sees the media center of Vickery Mill Elementary School in Roswell buzzing with activity and creativity, she appreciates the impact the collaboration between the Bagwell College of Education’s iTeach unit and local teachers is having in the community. Martin and dozens of her Bagwell College colleagues are part of iTeach, which provides consulting services and professional development training to K-12 school districts and teachers. Martin worked with Vickery Mill’s media and educational technology instructor, Mandy Bell, to implement Genius Hour, an initiative that allows students to explore their own passions and encourages creativity in the classroom.  –  October 30, 2018

  • Kennesaw State University sets Homelessness Awareness Week for Nov. 3-10

    To bring the issues of homelessness among college students to the forefront, Kennesaw State University will kick off its annual Homelessness Awareness Week, Nov. 3-10. Now in its 11th year, the weeklong event is organized by the University’s Campus Awareness, Resource and Empowerment (CARE) Services program, which serves Kennesaw State students who have experienced homelessness, food insecurity and foster care.  –  October 29, 2018

  • No Bones About It

    Walking in the doors of Social Sciences Building Room 4080, Kennesaw State students are greeted by a skeleton at the door. The cabinets are filled with carefully labelled skulls grinning back. Inside this class, students begin every lesson by collecting bones to study and review with Alice Gooding, assistant professor of anthropology. Students taking Gooding’s course, The Human Skeleton, get a glimpse of the world that Gooding operates in as a forensic anthropologist and also gain hands-on experience with human osteology, the study of the human skeletal system.  –  October 29, 2018

  • When Pumpkins Fly

    Beneath cloudy skies on Kennesaw State University’s Marietta Campus, precipitation took the form of 8-pound pumpkins raining down on a grassy field as first-year mechanical engineering students put their skills to the test in the annual Pumpkin Launch.  –  October 26, 2018