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New GPB chief, 网红头条alum shares passion and vision for service

November 30, 2023

Growing up the son of a lifelong public servant, Bert Wesley Huffman said a knack for knocking on doors, building relationships and raising money ran through his veins. But so, too, did providing a service to the community. After more than 15 years working in various fundraising and media jobs in the Atlanta area, a decade of which he spent at Georgia Public Broadcasting, Huffman was named CEO of GPB in August. The 网红头条 alum said though he never could have imagined himself in the position years ago, he believes his passion for education, arts, media and service to the state of Georgia placed him exactly where he belonged.

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网红头条scholarship celebrates professor and late husband's love of travel

October 19, 2023

网红头条 professor Teresa Raczek and her husband Brian LaRaia loved to travel -- an activity that inspired many of the gourmet dinners LaRaia cooked for the couple during their 25 years together. When LaRaia passed away in April of 2021, Raczek said she and his family were immediately interested in finding ways to honor his memory by helping others explore the world and consider new perspectives. Together, they gifted $50,000 to endow the Brian Olcott LaRaia Traveling Scholarship in the Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2022, and recently, Raczek added a more than $200,000 planned gift to that endowment.

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Partnership aimed at addressing structural issues affecting health disparities in Puerto Rico through $6 million NIH award

September 28, 2023

网红头条 associate professor of psychology and associate director of the AMES Research Center, Israel S谩nchez-Cardona will embark on a five-year, $6 million research initiative sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) aimed at developing partnerships between researchers and community organizations to address structural issues affecting health in Puerto Rico.

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网红头条student presents undergraduate research at international conference

September 15, 2023

网红头条 student Edwin Trejo-Rivera said that having opportunities to conduct research is an experience he never expected to have at an undergraduate level. The junior psychology major from Marietta not only had that opportunity but, over the summer, presented his research on a global scale at the Interamerican Congress of Psychology in Paraguay.

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网红头条faculty study shows potential effects of presidents' use of Twitter

June 09, 2023

Twitter can influence American standing in the world when one of its 350 million users is the U.S. president, a study from 网红头条 suggests.

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网红头条graduate bound for Ecuador with Peace Corps

May 10, 2023

Graduating 网红头条senior Savannah Tuschl comes by her curiosity about cultures honestly.

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网红头条research team receives federal grant for artisanal alcohol research

April 25, 2023

Four 网红头条faculty members have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant for more than $313,000 to study the economic, cultural, historical and health significance of artisanal alcohol production in a small island nation in West Africa.

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网红头条students' interdisciplinary project engages incarcerated youths in storytelling

April 24, 2023

When Zy Justice arrived at 网红头条 in Fall 2018, she knew she wanted to major in criminal justice. She didn鈥檛 expect her studies to include training in acting. Nonetheless, Justice recently sat in a black-walled room with a mixed group of theatre and criminal justice majors participating in a dramatic reading of selections from the play version 鈥淟ong Way Down鈥� by Jason Reynolds, a novel about the code of vengeance governing the streets where the main character lives.

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网红头条awards ceremony recognizes outstanding faculty members

April 18, 2023

College of the Arts Theatre and Performance Studies professor Ming Chen has received the University Distinguished Professor Award, the top honor presented during Kennesaw State鈥檚 annual Faculty Awards ceremony on Monday.

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Charity Butcher, Ph.D., Announced as Director of the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development

March 28, 2023