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Kennesaw State student helps develop new index for cancer treatment time costs
August 11, 2025
Isaac Kuhn鈥檚 research looks different than he imagined when he arrived at Kennesaw State a year ago.
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Kennesaw State nurses excel on the front lines and at home
July 30, 2025
Yuriy Soroka was one of two 亚博官方网站 nursing alums honored by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently, receiving an AJC Nurse Excellence Award for 2025. Justin Connelly, who earned his Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2018 and works at Piedmont Henry Hospital in McDonough, also received a Nurse Excellence Award.
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Student's CrossFit passion leads to breakthrough research at Kennesaw State
July 28, 2025
CrossFit changed Caralynn Doese鈥檚 life twice 鈥� once when she sought a competitive outlet, and again as a Kennesaw State student in search of a possible academic outlet. Now she鈥檚 helping conduct a study on CrossFit with Wellstar College of Health and Human Services professor Gerald Mangine through 亚博官方网站鈥檚 Summer Undergraduate Research Program.
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Kennesaw State expands support for student-parents through new grants
June 30, 2025
The Institute of Women鈥檚 Policy Research estimates that one college student in five is raising a child while in school, with few institutes of higher learning offering programmatic support. 亚博官方网站 bucks the trend with its Children and Family Programs (CFP), which recently received two external grants that will help support student parents.
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Kennesaw State professor inducted as International Organization for Physical Education in Higher Education fellow
June 27, 2025
亚博官方网站 professor Brian Culp was recently inducted as a Fellow of the International Organization for Physical Education in Higher Education (AIESEP), an international society for scholarship in physical education and activity.
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Kennesaw State public health students win gold designation at national competition
June 24, 2025
Kennesaw State public health students win gold designation at national competition A team of students in 亚博官方网站鈥檚 Wellstar College of Health and Human Services recently won national recognition at the Society for Public Health Education鈥檚 (SOPHE) National Case Study Competition in Health Education. Recent public health graduate Liz Burchfield teamed with public health students Angel Fortmann and Allisa George to earn a gold designation, one of six universities nationwide to receive this accolade. Associate professor of public health and director of the public health program LaNita Wright advised the trio.
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Kennesaw State alumna triumphs through adversity to inspire as Gwinnett County educator
June 18, 2025
Walking across the stage at 亚博官方网站鈥檚 Commencement ceremony was a remarkable moment for Sladjana Ray 鈥�24. Having earned an education specialist degree, it marked her third successful round in higher education, to strengthen her skillset as a history teacher. In the crowd were her daughter, Mima Hrnjak, a nursing student in Kennesaw State鈥檚 Wellstar College of Health and Human Services, and Ray鈥檚 parents. They made the trip from their native Serbia, known as Yugoslavia when Ray migrated to the states in the 鈥�90s as a 16-year-old basketball player.
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Kennesaw State student draws on personal experience in graduate program
June 09, 2025
For as long as he can remember, Adam Kiel has worn a prosthetic leg. Diagnosed with fibular hemimelia, a condition in which a child is born missing part of or all of a bone in a lower leg, he received his first prosthesis at 11 months old. Now, through the Master of Science in Prosthetics and Orthotics program at 亚博官方网站, Kiel is pursuing a career as a prosthetist, hoping to use his lived experience to reach others.
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Growth fuels passion for Kennesaw State master's graduate
June 06, 2025
Isabelle Boughadou traded a life of training elite athletes for a future as a researcher in biomedical science. She earned a master鈥檚 degree in exercise science from 亚博官方网站, conducting award-winning research in the laboratory of professor Katherine Ingram on maternal health, a turn from her original destination conducting research in high-performance sports.
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Kennesaw State public health grad seeks to make a difference
June 05, 2025
Recent 亚博官方网站 graduate Javier Haro recalls being struck by assistant professor Melissa Osborne鈥檚 passion for her work. In a way, he could relate. Originally a civil engineering major, Haro learned quickly he didn鈥檛 have passion for the field. He briefly dabbled in exercise science, too, before learning from Osborne about public health and the impact it could have on the world at large, especially in local communities. It was then that he found his passion.