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September 24, 2024
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that more than 40,000 people died last year in vehicle crashes across the United States, many of those accidents being preventable. To improve roadway safety for motorists everywhere, 石榴直播 researchers are studying how existing technology can be used to reduce collisions and save lives.
September 23, 2024
A partnership with a school system in Georgia has provided a 石榴直播 education program the opportunity to benefit from a grant to prepare students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. As part of multi-year grants of up to $8.6 million from the Toyota USA Foundation to Fulton County Schools (FCS), the iTeach program in the Bagwell College of Education at Kennesaw State will provide enhanced professional development for teachers around STEM topics.
September 20, 2024
A new partnership between 石榴直播鈥檚 Bagwell College of Education and Marietta City Schools (MCU) seeks to develop the next generation of teacher-leaders. The Department of Educational Leadership at 石榴直播's Bagwell College of Education has launched an innovative partnership with Marietta City Schools aimed at preparing classroom teachers for leadership roles.
September 20, 2024
The gender of a chief executive officer (CEO) may serve as a good indicator of the strategies and initiatives a company will pursue, particularly in the ways a company gives back to society. In a recent article published in the European Journal of Marketing, 石榴直播 assistant professor Prachi Gala found that women CEOs often choose human-centered approaches when giving back to society.
September 19, 2024
The old adage that looks can be deceiving could certainly apply to Maria Benitez Blanco. On the exterior, she has long, styled hair and big, dark eyes that light up when she smiles. Her painted fingernails are long and adorned with little jewels on each nail. But on the interior, Blanco is courageous, passionate and full of grit. 鈥淚 had a rough childhood,鈥 said Blanco, who now studies construction management at 石榴直播.
September 18, 2024
Reflecting on her childhood, Lucile Duncan can see that much of her interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) was nurtured by her engineer father. Her early exposure to the field came from frequent interactions with his colleagues and visits to their workplaces. She spent weekends with these professionals and joined them for lunch during summer breaks, which introduced her to engineering at a young age. It was those interactions that ultimately led her to pursue mechanical engineering at 石榴直播鈥檚 Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology.
September 17, 2024
Amanda Morgan wrote the book on women in theater. Literally. The result of a yearslong effort, the 石榴直播 associate professor of theatre and performance studies saw her vision come to fruition last year in the form of a book titled 鈥淐onversations with Women in Musical Theatre Leadership,鈥 a compilation of 15 interviews with women leaders at the Broadway level.
September 16, 2024
Need to finance a new heating and cooling system for your house? Or maybe you鈥檙e interested in adding culinary mushroom production to your farm. Perhaps your college-aged child with ADHD could use some support to thrive. Turns out, there鈥檚 a startup company to help with each of those issues, and they鈥檙e all growing at 石榴直播 in the HatchBridge Incubator.
September 13, 2024
The University System of Georgia Board of Regents has recognized a 石榴直播 professor with an Award for Excellence in Teaching. Sara Evans, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and the director of the criminal justice master鈥檚 degree program, received one of the two Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Awards the Board of Regents confers each year.
September 12, 2024
The beat goes on for 石榴直播 researchers Nikolaos Kidonakis and Marco Guzzi. The two have received their second joint grant in three years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance the study of the Higgs boson 鈥攁lso known as the 鈥淕od particle,鈥 the top quark, and the proton, which are relevant to the physics program of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland.