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March 24, 2025
Walking through the exhibits at the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, it’s not uncommon for Christen Knickerbocker ’24 to see something that catches her eye. Sometimes she pauses to admire the museum’s iconic dinosaur skeleton, while other days she notes one of the precious gemstones in its expansive collection. Though the recent Kennesaw State University master’s graduate works as collection manager at Tellus – cataloguing acquisitions and staying behind the scenes – she does occasionally walk the floor to admire the Curatorial Department’s work.
March 21, 2025
First-year architecture student Tuere Thomas is reimagining the way students consume design education through the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Her research focuses on how AI tools can spark creativity and help beginners visualize architectural concepts in innovative ways.
March 20, 2025
This June, Kennesaw State University alumni will see their classwork bound, covered, and sold, as part of the most comprehensive guide to date on all the historic sites owned and operated by the state of Georgia, which covers 1,500 years of history. Edited and co-authored by Kennesaw State history professor Jennifer Dickey, “There’s Lots to See in Georgia” resulted from a research seminar Dickey led in 2022 where each student adopted one of the 16 state historic sites to discover.
March 19, 2025
Kennesaw State University will make room for approximately 460 more students interested in living on campus with the addition of The Summit II residence hall, which was celebrated during a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday.
March 19, 2025
Out of more than 5,000 applicants from around the world, Kennesaw State University alumna Kyndall Hudson was one of 25 selected for the International Olympic Committee Young Leaders program. The four-year program empowers recruits to build out a grassroots sports project of choice by providing $10,000 in seed funding and a network of mentors. Young Leaders are also invited to attend the biannual IOC Youth Summit in Switzerland and other global gatherings.
March 18, 2025
Each spring semester, students from Kennesaw State University and Georgia’s other institutions are selected to participate in the Georgia Legislative Internship Program (GLIP) to assist during the yearly General Assembly session.
March 17, 2025
Water is necessity that humans cannot live without. Despite this, accurate water quality data is not widely accessible in real-time, which is a detriment that can impact public health and aquatic ecosystems. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Ahyoung Lee is working to fill in these gaps using a bacterial monitoring and forecasting system that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI), real-time monitoring, and predictive analytics to provide water-quality information and predict potential bacterial outbreaks.
March 14, 2025
As she began her first year at Kennesaw State University, information systems student Fareedah Ashiru had not thought about conducting scholarly research as a freshman – much less the type of impactful research that could help people live healthier lives. That changed one day in the first-year colloquium she was taking as a student in the KSU Journey Honors College. Her professor outlined the many academic and experiential opportunities available to first-year students at Kennesaw State, and Ashiru was intrigued that she could be involved in undergraduate research so early in her college career.
March 13, 2025
For the past year, a group of Kennesaw State University students have been synthesizing information from a multi-year study about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on female academics who are also mothers. Led by professor of public administration Jennifer Purcell, the First-Year Scholars project is titled “Women@Work in Higher Education: Barriers and Opportunities for Current and Future Women Leaders,” and involves undergraduates Hannah Anderson, Kyndall Moore, Ana Luisa De Almeida Santos Onofre, and graduate research assistant Morgan Grant.
March 12, 2025
Seeking to advance sustainability and environmentally friendly technologies, Kennesaw State University has launched an exchange program with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Launching in May, the program will provide students from both universities with hands-on learning and cross-cultural exchange opportunities.