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  • Deja Boney

    Fellowship lets Kennesaw State students, service agencies do more

    April 03, 2024

    Kennesaw State students are doing good deeds every day, fulfilling needs in the wider community through the University’s Office of Volunteerism and Service. But some students want to make a bigger difference than a one-time volunteer opportunity, which led to the creation of a new program that is allowing 11 KSU students to have an outsized impact on 10 local nonprofit social service agencies.

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  • Kennesaw State University

    Kennesaw State University named Military Friendly School

    April 01, 2024

    Kennesaw State University's commitment to supporting its 2,000 military-connected students has earned it a gold status designation by militaryfriendly.com in its 2024-2025 ranking of military friendly institutions. The Military Friendly® recognition comes as the university’s Military and Veteran Services (MVS) Outreach Program has increased its efforts to provide support to its military-connected students on both the Marietta and Kennesaw campuses. Services include student support services, academic advising, and counselors.

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  • Steve Dils

    Former Falcons QB investing in the future of Kennesaw State Athletics

    April 01, 2024

    Steve Dils’ final stop in a 10-season career as a National Football League quarterback was with the Atlanta Falcons, where the city’s friendly people and warm climate captivated him, sparking his choice to stay and start a business career when his playing days ended. Dils, who earned a degree in economics, built a successful career as a commercial real estate executive in Atlanta, building upon the off-season work in that sector he had done during his NFL career. The decision to live and work in Atlanta also eventually led Dils to a relationship with Kennesaw State University to serve as a member of the KSU Foundation’s Board of Trustees.

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  • Bagwell College

    Kennesaw State first in Georgia to offer master's in teacher and educational leadership

    March 28, 2024

    Kennesaw State University is launching a Master of Education in Teacher Leadership and Educational Leadership, providing education professionals an opportunity to elevate their leadership skills and advance their careers. The new master’s degree in the Bagwell College of Education will be the first in Georgia to offer the combination of teacher leadership and Tier I educational leadership certifications.

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  • Lexie Thrasher

    From the salon to the lab, chemistry student shines at Kennesaw State

    March 27, 2024

    While nursing sore feet stemming from her long shifts working as a hairdresser, Lexie Thrasher got a lesson in chemistry. She was captivated by a presentation on the chemistry behind the colors used in hair dye, which she found more interesting than her day job. From the hard floors of the salon, Thrasher would find her way to Kennesaw State University, where that lesson led her to seek a chemistry degree and conduct prize-winning research in assistant professor Mohammad Halim’s laboratory.

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  • Online learning

    Kennesaw State nationally recognized for online and hybrid course quality

    March 25, 2024

    Kennesaw State University has earned a national award for campus-wide commitment by its faculty to provide high-quality online and hybrid learning. The University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) honored Kennesaw State with its 2024 Strategic Innovation in Online Education Award. The award recognizes KSU’s course quality management model, a comprehensive system to ensure that online and hybrid courses meet federal requirements for digital course design, accessibility, and instructor interaction.

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  • Garrard Conley

    Kennesaw State's Garrard Conley candid about his best-selling memoir and upcoming novel

    March 22, 2024

    With his big cloud of black hair standing straight up, the gleam in his bright eyes, and the fluidity of his body as he speaks, it’s easy to be intrigued by Kennesaw State assistant professor of creative writing Garrard Conley. It’s easier still to be entranced by how candidly he speaks about religion, sexuality, activism, and why he asks his students to write with compassion even about the most flawed human beings. Conley is the author of “Boy Erased,” a 2016 Lambda-nominated memoir adapted into a major motion picture starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe. It tells the story of a closeted gay son of religious parents being forced into conversion therapy.

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  • Tashin Kazi

    Freshman Kennesaw State student has unprecedented success in research

    March 15, 2024

    Most people know someone with a “go-getter” personality – that person who is energetic and determined to be successful. There might not be a person who better encompasses the idea of being a go-getter than Kennesaw State University student Tashin Kazi. While still a junior at Woodstock High School, he started emailing professors at Kennesaw State asking to join a research team. It was through that outreach that Kazi was connected to Maria Valero, an assistant professor of information technology in KSU’s College of Computing and Software Engineering (CCSE).

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  • Lacey Harper

    Graduate student finds her calling in women's health at Kennesaw State

    February 22, 2024

    One message reset the life trajectory for Kennesaw State University graduate student Lacey Harper. Two years after earning a bachelor’s degree in exercise science summa cum laude from KSU, Harper worked as manager at a sporting goods store when she received a message via LinkedIn from one of her former professors, Garrett Hester. Currently pursuing a master’s in exercise science, Harper has thrived in the Hester research group. Along with the important mission of improving the health of older women, she discovered her inner nerd, immersing herself in the data analysis of her various projects as well as the hands-on aspects of studying the effects of exercise.

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  • Heather Koopman

    Academic leader, researcher named dean of Kennesaw State's College of Science and Mathematics

    February 16, 2024

    Kennesaw State University has named accomplished researcher and physiologist Heather Koopman as dean of the College of Science and Mathematics, effective July 1. Koopman, who comes to KSU with two and a half decades’ experience in academia, was named dean following a national search. Koopman currently serves as the chair of the Department of Biology and Marine Biology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

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