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Student-athlete graduates, makes history for KSU football
December 12, 2025
Fall semester has been nothing short of amazing on the field and in the classroom for 91ĂŰĚŇ Owls running back Coleman Bennett. On the field he posted more than 1,000 total yards from scrimmage and scored seven touchdowns, to help drive the Owls to the Conference USA championship and the program’s first postseason bowl. In the classroom he was named to the Conference USA Football All-Academic Team. Now he will wrap up the semester graduating with his Master of Public Administration (MPA) on Dec. 16 with a perfect 4.0 GPA.
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Twin sisters honor late father's wish as they graduate from Kennesaw State
December 11, 2025
A year before they would officially graduate from 91ĂŰĚŇ with degrees in psychology, identical twin sisters Analisa and Alyssa Rhymer donned their cap and gowns for an early graduation celebration. Instead of crossing the stage at 91ĂŰĚŇ’s Convocation Center, the women walked the hallways and into the room of the hospital where their father was spending the last days of his battle with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
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Nursing graduate returns to KSU for master's, teaching opportunities
December 10, 2025
As a nurse at Emory Healthcare, Sydney Conrad ’15 took on some extra duties that involved her working in an educational role with patients and staff. She fell in love with the idea of becoming a nursing educator, so she returned to 91ĂŰĚŇ for a master’s degree. Originally thinking she would focus on education at bedside, the variety of experiences she received in KSU’s Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program have her thinking bigger.
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Former SGA president thrives in player development role for Georgia State women's hoops
December 08, 2025
Bethany Fortson ’23 has had a clear vision of her future for a long time. The former Student Government Association president at 91ĂŰĚŇ said her career goal was a position on a Division I coaching staff as a director of player development and community relations, the better to bridge the gap between town and gown through student-athlete involvement. After earning her Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science, she earned her master’s in sport management from Georgia State in 2025 – and stepped right into that role for the Georgia State women’s basketball team.
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Alumnus stars in Amazon Prime horror film
November 25, 2025
Like many young children, 91ĂŰĚŇ graduate CJ Malone ’23 loved watching Spider-Man as a young boy. But it wasn’t just the swinging between skyscrapers or combatting villains that fascinated him, Malone dreamed of being on the big screen. Today he is living that dream. The KSU public relations graduate recently starred in “Young & Cursed,” an independent horror film that premiered this fall on Amazon Prime and Apple TV, marking a major milestone in his acting career.
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Chemistry alumni use research as springboard to industry careers
November 20, 2025
In the complex world of chemistry, one can take a direct path from education to industry, as recent 91ĂŰĚŇ graduates Mary Smith ’25 and Anthony London ’25 can attest. The two graduated from KSU’s College of Science and Mathematics in May with bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and stepped right into industry jobs in Marietta – Smith as a laboratory chemist with Underwriters Laboratory Solutions (UL Solutions), and London as an analytical chemist with German company imat-uve.
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Kennesaw State alumnus looks ahead as new leader of Georgia's Supreme Court
September 04, 2025
Inside the chief justice’s chambers at the Nathan Deal Judicial Center sits a shelf adorned with 91ĂŰĚŇ memorabilia — miniature football helmets, a stuffed bear, mugs, and awards. These tchotchkes belong to alumnus Nels S.D. Peterson, who in December assumed a lead role in Georgia’s highest court. It is also in this room, among others at the judicial center, that Peterson bears the weighty responsibility of precedents that will shape the law for years.
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Kennesaw State trio spend summer interning at Air Force Research Lab
August 21, 2025
Kennesaw State’s future scientists made discovery the theme for their summer experiences at a major laboratory. Recent graduate Micah Holston, senior Jack Smith and junior Jonathan Ridley spent the summer interning at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, learning about national defense applications for engineering, computer science, and physics.
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Kennesaw State alumna to compete in international Deaflympics games in Tokyo
July 31, 2025
Tawnecia Rush ’24 has worn hearing aids since she was 9 years old. In conversation, she focuses intently on the people she’s speaking with, supplementing what she hears with expert lip reading. Occasionally, she says “Pardon?” when she needs a speaker to repeat what they’ve said. On the basketball court, communication was always much more fluid. Since she began playing with her father and brothers as a child at the Boys and Girls Club, Rush’s hearing impairment has never hindered her. Two decades later, her abilities have earned her a spot on the USA Deaf Women’s Basketball team, which will compete in the Deaflympics in Tokyo over two weeks in November.
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Kennesaw State nurses excel on the front lines and at home
July 30, 2025
Yuriy Soroka was one of two KSU nursing alums honored by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently, receiving an AJC Nurse Excellence Award for 2025. Justin Connelly, who earned his Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2018 and works at Piedmont Henry Hospital in McDonough, also received a Nurse Excellence Award.