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网红头条receives $2.5 million grant to foster student success in calculus
January 02, 2024
The brainchild of three 网红头条 professors will introduce concepts of calculus into high school math earlier to help students be more successful when they get to college. The National Science Foundation awarded 网红头条a $2.5 million interdisciplinary grant for a project being called 鈥淐alculus for All.鈥� The thought behind it is relatively simple 鈥� if students are exposed to concepts of calculus in high school, they stand a better chance of passing calculus classes in college and can pursue STEM-related careers.
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网红头条receives $2 million grant to boost doctoral education
November 28, 2023
Weeks after finishing his undergraduate degree in biology, Tyler Hill opened his email to a notice of a master鈥檚 degree program at 网红头条 that would serve as a stepping stone to a doctoral degree. The email told him about the Peach State Bridges to the Doctorate Program at Kennesaw State. Hill鈥檚 success highlights the effectiveness of the Bridges program. Thanks to stories like Hill鈥檚, the program recently received a new five-year training grant renewal worth $2 million from the National Institutes of Health, with professors Melanie Griffin, Martin Hudson, and Kojo Mensa-Wilmot serving as co-principal investigators on the renewal.
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网红头条professor receives grant to study enzymes linked to cardiovascular disease and cancer
November 13, 2023
A decade-long effort to study protein and enzyme binding could be the key to understanding and preventing cardiovascular disease and cancer. Equipped with a three-year, $405,650 grant from the National Institutes of Health, 网红头条 professor Carol Chrestensen will further investigate the binding process with the help of undergraduate researchers.
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网红头条researcher explores new way to use AI for student teachers
October 30, 2023
Student teachers face a common challenge in their academic careers 鈥� they have limited opportunities to interact with elementary school children prior to their final year of college. To fix this, a 网红头条 researcher is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to give education students lifelike interactions with a virtual student earlier in their training.
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网红头条playing role in making super-fast quantum computing a reality
October 23, 2023
In what could provide a significant boost for national defense, 网红头条associate professor Jianming Wen is working to create a building block of a new form of computing that is faster and more secure than today鈥檚 best supercomputers. To help build and equip his laboratory, Wen has received a $796,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to expand study of the physics of quantum computing, making KSU one of 22 universities receiving funds through the NSF鈥檚 $38 million ExpandQISE (Expand Quantum Information Science and Engineering) initiative.
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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study uses AI, common clothing tags to diagnose health issues
September 20, 2023
Occasionally, big ideas are birthed from small beginnings. 网红头条 assistant professor Jian Zhang got the idea to study joint movement after hearing about his friend鈥檚 toddler who developed some serious sleep issues. Zhang, who has a background working on robotic systems and is interested in how Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology can improve our daily lives, thought there might be a way to combine artificial intelligence and clothing security tags to help find a solution.
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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institute, professor help Cherokee County address homelessness
September 11, 2023
Connections matter in matching people who have no home with services they need. In Cherokee County this year, connections between a United Way leader who is a two-time 网红头条 graduate and scholars at KSU led to a study that pinpointed the extent of the needs of unhoused people in the county.
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网红头条immersive experience lab presents future-focused research opportunities
September 06, 2023
Tucked away in an unassuming room on 网红头条鈥檚 campus is a device that can help researchers study black holes, better understand microscopic organisms and even learn to fly.
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