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  • Aliyah Johnson

    KSU nursing student shares perspective at Governor's Workforce Summit

    October 28, 2025

    Ƶ student Aliyah Johnson recently joined educators, industry leaders, and policymakers from across Georgia at the 2025 Governor’s Workforce Summit, held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. Representing the University System of Georgia, Johnson served as a panelist during the closing session, “Pathways to Possibilities – Where Talent Meets Opportunity,” where she shared her perspective on how students can best prepare for, and be supported along, their educational and career journeys.

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  • Nursing professor Chinomso Nwozichi, left, and student researcher Isaac Kuhn.

    Ƶstudent helps develop new index for cancer treatment time costs

    August 11, 2025

    Isaac Kuhn’s research looks different than he imagined when he arrived at Ƶa year ago.

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  • Justin Connelly

    Ƶnurses excel on the front lines and at home

    July 30, 2025

    Yuriy Soroka was one of two KSU 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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  • Caralynn Doese

    Student's CrossFit passion leads to breakthrough research at Kennesaw State

    July 28, 2025

    CrossFit changed Caralynn Doese’s life twice – once when she sought a competitive outlet, and again as a Ƶstudent in search of a possible academic outlet. Now she’s helping conduct a study on CrossFit with Wellstar College of Health and Human Services professor Gerald Mangine through KSU’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program.

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  • Allison Garefino

    Ƶexpands support for student-parents through new grants

    June 30, 2025

    The Institute of Women’s 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. Ƶ 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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  • Brian Culp

    Ƶprofessor inducted as International Organization for Physical Education in Higher Education fellow

    June 27, 2025

    Ƶ 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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  • Allisa George

    Ƶpublic health students win gold designation at national competition

    June 24, 2025

    Ƶpublic health students win gold designation at national competition A team of students in Ƶ’s Wellstar College of Health and Human Services recently won national recognition at the Society for Public Health Education’s (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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  • Sladjana Ray

    Ƶalumna triumphs through adversity to inspire as Gwinnett County educator

    June 18, 2025

    Walking across the stage at Ƶ’s Commencement ceremony was a remarkable moment for Sladjana Ray ’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’s Wellstar College of Health and Human Services, and Ray’s parents. They made the trip from their native Serbia, known as Yugoslavia when Ray migrated to the states in the ’90s as a 16-year-old basketball player.

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  • Adam Kiel

    Ƶstudent 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 Ƶ, Kiel is pursuing a career as a prosthetist, hoping to use his lived experience to reach others.

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  • Isabelle Boughadou

    Growth fuels passion for Ƶmaster'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’s degree in exercise science from Ƶ, 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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