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Kennesaw State researcher earns NIH grant to investigate health factors related to obesity using AI
November 01, 2024
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported that obesity was prevalent in more than 40 percent in U.S. adults. To combat this, Kennesaw State University assistant professor Liang Zhao aims to use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to explore health determinants that lead to obesity in rural areas. Zhao’s research, supported by a $51,747 National Institutes of Health (NIH) AIM-AHEAD grant, examines the social determinants of health, or SDOH.
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Kennesaw State assistant professor awarded Georgia Research Alliance grant to advance groundbreaking diabetes research
October 30, 2024
Taking the next step in changing the way diabetics monitor glucose levels, Kennesaw State University assistant professor Maria Valero has been awarded a Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) grant to continue her innovative GlucoCheck project. The project looks to modify glucose monitoring for the millions affected by diabetes by offering a noninvasive alternative for blood sugar tests.
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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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Kennesaw State and Go Studio launch research project to improve consumer shopping experience
October 22, 2024
Go Studio, the innovation hub of payments technology company InComm Payments, and Kennesaw State University (KSU) today announced the launch of a new research collaboration. The three-year project will connect KSU researchers and Go Studio innovators to create technology solutions that help retail businesses understand and resolve consumer pain points during the in-store shopping experience.
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Kennesaw State reopens state-of-the-art Crawford Lab research facility
October 16, 2024
Progressing toward its goal of accelerating research innovation and impact, Kennesaw State University on Monday unveiled a newly renovated Crawford Lab Building on the Marietta Campus.
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AMES continues $2.5 million VA-funded partnership with GDVS to prevent veteran suicide
October 15, 2024
The Center for the Advancement of Military and Emergency Services (AMES) Research recently received funding to continue its collaboration with the Georgia Department of Veterans Services (GDVS) in an effort aimed at preventing veteran suicide.
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Kennesaw State biochemistry major gains experience from First-Year Scholars, summer internship
October 14, 2024
Inspired by his two brothers who attended Kennesaw State University, biochemistry major Jacob Erasmus has wasted no time getting involved on campus. Through KSU’s First-Year Scholars program, Erasmus found a laboratory and a research project within his first month on campus and parlayed that work into a summer internship at a nature-based ingredient company. Now he has continued his research and has shown no signs of slowing down as a Sophomore Scholar.
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Kennesaw State research aims to reduce motor vehicle accidents
September 24, 2024
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that more than 40,000 people died last year in vehicle crashes across the United States, many of those accidents being preventable. To improve roadway safety for motorists everywhere, Kennesaw State University researchers are studying how existing technology can be used to reduce collisions and save lives.
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Kennesaw State researchers earn second NSF grant to advance theoretical particle research
September 12, 2024
The beat goes on for Kennesaw State University researchers Nikolaos Kidonakis and Marco Guzzi. The two have received their second joint grant in three years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance the study of the Higgs boson —also known as the “God particle,” the top quark, and the proton, which are relevant to the physics program of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland.
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Kennesaw State researchers tracking down solutions to real-world problems
September 11, 2024
Scientific discovery is an everyday pursuit at Kennesaw State University – research that is making lives better.
