Kennesaw State University

Kennesaw State University junior Derek Price II has received a Barry M. Goldwater scholarship, awarded each year to the nation's top undergraduate scholars in the sciences, mathematics and engineering. A meeting with fellow engineering students as a freshman set Price on his path toward research, which he pursued through KSU's First-Year Scholars program.

Financial support from more than 200 donors is providing ArtsKSU Gala Scholarships to 70 Kennesaw State students for the 2022-23 academic year. The recipients represent all four units of KSU's College of the Arts.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy awarded four Kennesaw State students scholarships through its University Nuclear Leadership Program (UNLP) for the upcoming school year.

The Wellstar-Tom and Betty Phillips Elite Honors Nursing Endowed Scholarship is helping KSU meet the demand for nurses. University officials, Wellstar Health System and donor Tom Phillips celebrated the scholarship recipients at a reception.

Kennesaw State University senior Sydney Tomlin has earned a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to teach English to students in a Model United Nations program in Spain starting in September. Tomlin said she took her first Spanish class in eighth grade and has had a passion for language since.

Kennesaw State University sophomore Angel Vasquez has been awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, presented annually to the nation's top undergraduate scholars in the sciences, mathematics and engineering. "I've always had a desire to help people and learn about how physics and chemistry can explain the world, and I've enjoyed these opportunities at Kennesaw State," Vasquez said. "This scholarship is a great honor, and it feels good to know that the work is recognized."

Crystal Butler, a second-year student in Kennesaw State University's Master of Social Work program, has earned placement in the prestigious Minority Fellowship Program through the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).

Kennesaw State junior Trae Dunn, a biology major who is researching nervous system development in worms to better understand human disorders, has been awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. The Goldwater Scholarship recognizes the nation's top undergraduate scholars in the sciences, mathematics and engineering. One of 396 recipients selected this year, Dunn is the third KSU student to win a Goldwater, joining Jiexi Liao in 2013 and Biya Haile in 2019.

In its inaugural season, 19 students have earned scholarships as part of Kennesaw State's new varsity Esports Program: https://experience.kennesaw.edu/varsityesports?source=share-ksu

A journey 3,800 miles from campus confirmed to Kennesaw State junior Brianna McBride that she is on the right path. McBride, an interactive design major, spent five weeks in Ireland on a Gilman International Scholarship, a U.S. State Department grant that helps students of limited financial means study or intern abroad. McBride immersed herself in Ireland's culture, visited historic sites and took classes in art appreciation and post-colonial literature.

Selected as one of 35 students in the first cohort of the Coca-Cola First Generation and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Scholars program, which commences during the fall semester.

Kennesaw State University's Division of Global Affairs awarded its highest honors at the University's Fifth Annual International Awards Ceremony April 14 at the Marietta Country Club. Kennesaw State students Samantha Rudd and Hazel Lika were recipients of two of the event's six awards, which recognized community leaders and partners, faculty members, alumni and students who have helped advance global education.

The CarMax Auto Finance Analytics Scholarship, established in 2014, provides two-year scholarships for students in business and statistics. The merit-based scholarship has served 36 undergraduate and graduate students with financial support. Each academic year, 12 students - six from the Coles College of Business and six from the College of Science and Mathematics - are awarded the scholarship. Student scholars were recently recognized by CarMax Auto Finance and the University during an on-campus luncheon.

Kennesaw State student Sanjoosh Akkineni was recently awarded the Udacity Google Developer Challenge Scholarship. Akkineni, a doctoral student in analytics and data science at Kennesaw State, is one of 50,000 individuals nationally who earned the scholarship. The scholarship provides free access to a rigorous training program and is focused on software development for mobile (Android) and web, which represent a big portion of the open roles in today's job market.

Students in Kennesaw State's Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Techonology have received scholarships from the Atlanta Chapter of Women in Electronics. The Women in Electronics scholarship focuses on students majoring in electronics, engineering, computer science, information technology or other related fields, and is awarded based on financial need, academic achievement, and participation in extracurricular activities.

Ikia Chalunte Richardson, an industrial engineering technology student, has been awarded the Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association Honor Scholarship in the amount of $5,000 for the 2017/2018 academic year from the Material Handling Education Foundation Inc.

The Surface Mount Technology Association (Atlanta Chapter) offers scholarships each year to students at engineering colleges in Georgia. This year they received a record number of 40 applications for scholarships from four different engineering colleges, and they selected three students to each receive a scholarship of $2,000 for academic year 2017-2018. The three students are all from the Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering/Engineering Technology.