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Kennesaw State University

The brainchild of three Kennesaw State University professors will introduce concepts of calculus into high school math earlier to help students be more successful when they get to college.

As music thumped and students mingled on the Campus Green, Kennesaw State University freshman Weilly Cabrera of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, surveyed the scene at SplashBash.

If she’s not in the lab, you can find Kennesaw State senior Ariane Charland-Martin on one of her favorite hiking trails around the area. This is where she decompresses from life as a dual bachelor’s and master’s student studying chemistry.

In combining her love of the environment and her love for chemistry, she helps create conjugated polymers from which organic electronics can be made, and that can be degraded when their usefulness has passed. That excites Charland-Martin, who said she feels she is doing something to reduce pollution and help the environment.

A new Bachelor of Science in Data Science and Analytics has been approved for Kennesaw State University. The undergraduate degree rounds out a full suite of degree opportunities in the discipline.

Kennesaw State University students and faculty members are bringing energy and productivity assessment services to small and medium-size manufacturers in the Southeast thanks to a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

Kennesaw State University students have an inside track to working in Georgia’s booming entertainment industry, through the Joel A. Katz Music and Entertainment Business program.

Kennesaw State University has launched a research center that its founders hope will help reduce suicide, anxiety and depression among Georgia’s approximately 1 million military and public safety personnel.

Kennesaw State’s Electric Vehicle Team won big at its latest competition, setting a track record and bringing home first place in the autonomous division and second in the driven competition.

The team, part of the Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology, traveled to Purdue University to compete in the evGrand Prix, an annual electric go-kart racing event. The Electric Vehicle Team allows students from different backgrounds to apply knowledge learned in the classroom to all aspects of the design and build process of electric vehicles.

As a student, it wasn’t uncommon for Irish Horsey to look around and find herself as the only woman in a classroom full of construction management majors. Now an assistant professor and interim chair of Kennesaw State University’s Department of Construction Management, she uses her platform to demonstrate it doesn’t have to be that way.

To help prepare students for jobs in Georgia’s fast-growing financial technology sector, Kennesaw State University has leveraged its partnership with the Georgia FinTech Academy to launch an academic minor in fintech beginning Fall 2021. This is the first program of its kind in the state.

Dec. 14, 2020 — After graduating high school, Mary Ogidigben wasn’t quite sure where her educational journey would lead her next.

She knew that she liked mathematics and physics, but neither felt like they led her down the right career path. It wasn’t until her father returned home with a library book full of college majors that she found her calling.

November 6, 2020 – Madeleine Carden admittedly was apprehensive about being the first person in her family to attend college. However, she felt at home right away at Kennesaw State through the University’s initiatives to help first-generation students succeed.