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Kennesaw State undergraduate researcher tackles end-of-life communication
October 23, 2024
Kennesaw State University student researcher Ella Smith is exploring how death and the final words between parents and children impact self-esteem and closure in mourning. A KSU Journey Honors College student from Cartersville, Georgia, Smith has focused on end-of-life communication through the university’s First-Year Scholars Program. The research is deeply personal, because she has experienced end-of-life communication with her grandmother.
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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 embraces AI as valuable tool for students, researchers
August 21, 2024
On Nov. 31, 2022, a group of students gathered around Jeanne Law’s computer and stared in wonder. It was the day after OpenAI released an early demo of ChatGPT, and Law, a professor of English at Kennesaw State, was curious to see what the chatbot could do. “In that moment, I knew it could have a profound impact on all of us,” Law said.
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Familiarity fuels Kennesaw State professor's play
August 14, 2024
A former high school wrestler, Kennesaw State University professor Aaron Levy’s play The Student Body draws from familiar source material and features familiar actors.
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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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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'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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New scholarship the culmination of Kennesaw State alumni family success
May 30, 2024
Tanasia Kenney has plenty of childhood memories at Kennesaw State University. Her mother, former KSU employee Jacqueline Hand, frequently brought her to campus, where she was known as “Jackie’s daughter,” and became familiar with staff and faculty. Now a reporter for McClatchy news publications, Kenney is just one member of a KSU alumni family.
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Kennesaw State multidisciplinary grad represents spirit of determination
May 01, 2024
Anytime she’s wanted something in her life, Kim Amaya has worked to earn it with little help. The soon-to-be Kennesaw State University graduate arrived in the United States from El Salvador when she was only 3, and since a tender age, she’s been working to afford herself opportunities her parents didn’t get. Since transferring to KSU in 2022 to study modern language and culture, Amaya has continued to work a full-time job and a part-time job, or up to three part-time, as she looks forward to a teaching career.
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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.