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Kentucky State University volleyball team finish as conference runners-up
The Kentucky State University volleyball team’s bid fell short to win a conference championship for the third consecutive year and fifth in sixth years, but the Thorobrettes didn’t go down without a fight to the red-hot Spring Hill University squad. Kentucky State opened the championship round by winning the first set against Spring Hill, something no other Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) team had done all seaso...
Kentucky State University student wins a national production award
A Kentucky State University student recently won a first-place national award in video production, while three other students placed for the first time in the College Broadcasters Inc. National Student Production Awards. Diamond Gordon, a 2016 graduate of the mass communication and journalism program at Kentucky State won first place for best television promo at the Pinnacle Awards sponsored by the College Media Association recentl...
Computer science students place in the top third of global competition
Three Kentucky State University students performed well during a global computer programming competition. Kentucky State juniors Derek Roberts, Kevin Smeeks and John Blair were one of 5,155 teams participating in the recent IEEEXtreme 24-hour global computing programming competition. Teams compete against each other in a 24-hour time span to solve a set of programming problems. Kentucky State’s team finished in the top 34 percent o...
Kentucky State University students win at statewide science competition
Four Kentucky State University students took home top awards at a statewide scientific conference recently. Megan McCoun, Tavin Marshall, Ariel Smith, and Tori Farrow all placed at the Kentucky Academy of Sciences annual meeting, held Saturday, Nov. 3 at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. Megan McCoun placed second in the agricultural sciences poster presentation category with her work titled “Effects of live yeast suppl...