February 2023 Newsletter

Congratulations CCSE Faculty and Staff Award Winners

Staff Award Positive Impact/Service to the Community: Melissa Lappe
Staff Award Student Success Impact Award: Ashley McClure
Faculty Award College Distinguished Professor Award: Ying Xie
Faculty Award Outstanding Research and Creative Activity: Dr. Ramazan Aygun
Faculty Award Outstanding Early Career: Dr. Maria Valero de Clemente

Congratulations to Dr. Bobin Deng, Dr. Patrick Bobbie, and Kun Suo who received a collaborative funding, Affordable Learning Georgia Affordable Materials Grant for $15,000.

Congratulations to Dr. Soon Lee (PI) and Nasrin Dehbozorgi (Co-PI) have receievd a $5,000 KSU grant under the SPECIAL RESEARCH INITIATIVE program on a project titled "AI-Based Discourse Analysis System (ADAS) for K-12 Science Classrooms".

Congratulations to PI: Selena He, Shirley Tian. Senior Personnel: Anyoung Lee, Xinyue Zhang, Maria Valero, Xinyan Zhang, Sylvia Bhattacharya who received funding by NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates award amount: $323,650 for 3 years. Project titled: “REU Site: Non-Invasive Deep Brain-Computer Interfaces”

Congratulations to Lead PI: Shirley Tian, PIs: Chi Zhang, Hossain Shahriar, Jack Zheng, Seyedamin Pouriyeh. Their proposal for continuous development in MSIT courses was funded by Affordable Learning Georgia Affordable Materials Grant for $10,000 for 1 year.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicidality, and Stress

Kimberly Gomes, a minor in Applied Statistics and Analytics had the honor of presenting her research on "Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicidality, and Stress: The Moderating Role of Dysfunctional and Recovery Cognitions" at Posters at the Georgia Capitol. Posters at the Georgia State Capitol is an annual event hosted by the Georgia Undergraduate Research Collective where only four selected undergraduate students from the state of Georgia present their posters to state legislators.

The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia Recognizes

The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia recognizes one student annually from each of its institutions for the Regents’ Academic Recognition Day. Eliott Larez was nominated, representing the College of Computing and Software Engineering and the KSU Journey Honors College, to represent Kennesaw State University.