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November 18, 2020
Having a biased perspective about someone without realizing it can have a profound negative impact on productivity, efficiency and relationships in the workplace, according to ÈâÈ⴫ý psychology professor Tracie Stewart.
October 26, 2020
Evidence shows that women are two times more likely than men to be affected by posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a debilitating and costly mental health condition. ÈâÈ⴫ý’s Ebony Glover seeks to understand the biological factors behind that heightened risk through a grant she recently earned from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
October 21, 2020
The manner in which journalists tell stories about football players’ concussions and athletes’ mental health plays a pivotal role in how people react and treat such issues, according to ÈâÈ⴫ý’s David Cassilo. Cassilo, assistant professor of communication, defines media framing as the tendency of journalists to include personal bias in their stories, whether it be through the quotes they include, sentence structure and what information is included or excluded from the story.
July 22, 2020
ÈâÈ⴫ý State summer 2020 graduates
June 03, 2020
ÈâÈ⴫ý professor Paul McDaniel has been honored for his contributions to the field of ethnic geography, recently earning a national award from the American Association of Geographers (AAG). McDaniel received the 2020 Early Career Award for Scholarship, Teaching and Service from the Ethnic Geography Specialty Group (EGSG) of the AAG. The award recognizes an EGSG member’s outstanding work in their early to mid-career years in ethnic geography, the study of distributions and interactions of ethnic groups and the cultural characteristics on which they are based.
June 02, 2020
For the third consecutive year, ÈâÈ⴫ý State is a leading choice for students, according to data from U.S. News & World Report. The U.S. News study determined that ÈâÈ⴫ý State has one of the nation’s highest admissions yield rates, meaning the percentage of admitted students who enroll.
May 20, 2020
Accomplished ÈâÈ⴫ý student Artis Trice again has earned national recognition, receiving a $10,000 scholarship from Taco Bell toward pursuing his passion of solving food insecurity in Atlanta. Trice, a geography major and Honors student from Ellenwood, was one of only 66 students chosen from 11,000 applicants nationwide to receive one of the scholarships. Taco Bell is awarding a total of $3 million in scholarships, and Trice won the second-highest amount of $10,000 for the Foundation Live Más Scholarship.
May 07, 2020
Their official ceremony may be postponed, but more than 3,500 ÈâÈ⴫ý students are graduating this week. The May 2020 class of 3,512 graduate candidates – 2,893 undergraduate and 619 graduate students – marks an increase from last spring’s 3,400 graduates. The students are earning their degrees and receiving their diplomas after KSU transitioned to fully remote learning midway through the semester because of the coronavirus outbreak, which also caused the May Commencement ceremonies to be postponed.
April 17, 2020
The 24th annual Symposium of Student Scholars, hosted by the Office of Undergraduate Research, was held virtually for the first time as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that students would not miss out on valuable experiential learning opportunities. The event is held each year to give undergraduate and graduate researchers from all disciplines at ÈâÈ⴫ý the opportunity to present their work to a wider audience.
February 11, 2020
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has approved two new degree programs at ÈâÈ⴫ý. A Master of Science in Cybersecurity and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Hospitality Management will be offered starting in the 2020-21 school year.