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Student-athlete graduates, makes history for KSU football
December 12, 2025
Fall semester has been nothing short of amazing on the field and in the classroom for Kennesaw State University Owls running back Coleman Bennett. On the field he posted more than 1,000 total yards from scrimmage and scored seven touchdowns, to help drive the Owls to the Conference USA championship and the program’s first postseason bowl. In the classroom he was named to the Conference USA Football All-Academic Team. Now he will wrap up the semester graduating with his Master of Public Administration (MPA) on Dec. 16 with a perfect 4.0 GPA.
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Twin sisters honor late father's wish as they graduate from Kennesaw State
December 11, 2025
A year before they would officially graduate from Kennesaw State University with degrees in psychology, identical twin sisters Analisa and Alyssa Rhymer donned their cap and gowns for an early graduation celebration. Instead of crossing the stage at KSU’s Convocation Center, the women walked the hallways and into the room of the hospital where their father was spending the last days of his battle with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
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Kennesaw State student explores how trauma affects decision-making
December 05, 2025
Can a person’s past determine the decisions they make in stressful situations? Kennesaw State University sophomore Emily Martinez is examining how trauma responses may influence the way people make moral decisions. Martinez, a psychology major in the Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences explored the connection between instinctive fear reactions—fight, flight, freeze and fawn—and the moral principles people rely on when faced with high-stress situations.
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Alumnus stars in Amazon Prime horror film
November 25, 2025
Like many young children, Kennesaw State University graduate CJ Malone ’23 loved watching Spider-Man as a young boy. But it wasn’t just the swinging between skyscrapers or combatting villains that fascinated him, Malone dreamed of being on the big screen. Today he is living that dream. The KSU public relations graduate recently starred in “Young & Cursed,” an independent horror film that premiered this fall on Amazon Prime and Apple TV, marking a major milestone in his acting career.
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From Kennesaw to Capitol Hill, student earns front-row seat to federal policymaking process
November 18, 2025
With her sights on a career in policymaking, Kennesaw State University senior Nahomy Limon is spending her final semester of college in the heart of Washington, D.C., interning on Capitol Hill and gaining a front-row seat to how policies are made. A political science and international affairs double major in the Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Limon is one of just 25 students nationwide selected for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute internship program.
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Kennesaw State receives APLU Public Impact Research Award for veteran suicide prevention research
November 13, 2025
With behavioral health challenges on the rise among service members and first responders, Kennesaw State University’s Center for the Advancement of Military and Emergency Services (AMES) Research is working to support resilience and well-being, an urgent mission given that an estimated 17 veterans die by suicide each day. The center has received the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities’ Public Impact Research Award, which recognizes institutions that have implemented one or more impactful Public Impact Research (PIR) efforts and produced exceptional outcomes.
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Radow College researchers exploring AI in humanitarian crisis simulation design
November 13, 2025
Researchers at the Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences are bringing their humanitarian crisis response simulation to a new audience as they investigate how AI could play a role in the future.
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Kennesaw State associate professor receives NSF grant to improve student success in engineering
November 10, 2025
Can helping engineering students see the value in their studies help to improve their performance and degree progress? Kennesaw State University researcher Ordene Edwards is exploring that possibility. An associate professor of Educational Psychology in the Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Edwards has received a five-year, $700,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to explore how motivation can improve retention and academic success among engineering students.
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Debate team at Kennesaw State rising to the challenge
November 05, 2025
Kennesaw State University’s new debate team is driven, resourceful, and ready to tackle any challenge that comes their way during the heat of competition. Their performance at the 2025 University System of Georgia Regents Cup gave no indication that becoming a team required a leap of faith. Robin Mathis, Ph.D., associate professor of communication, associate director of the School of Communication and Media at Radow College, and director of debate for the KSU team, said there were some challenges to overcome before the Regents Cup. She had less than three months to build a team from scratch, and none of the students involved had any prior debate team experience.
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Student projects mark 25th anniversary of Kennesaw State, Montepulciano partnership
October 22, 2025
Some 5,000 miles away, in the heart of Montepulciano, Italy, a city famous for medieval architecture and world-class wines, Kennesaw State University students are uncorking creativity and making an impact. In a truly global collaboration, graphic design students in the School of Communication and Media at the Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences are getting a taste of real-world design experience creating a commemorative wine label and promotional materials for a bottle of red wine that will be released to celebrate the 25-year partnership with KSU’s campus in Montepulciano.