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Kentucky State University students fare well at MISA meeting
Six Kentucky State University Behavioral and Social Science students participated in the second annual meeting of the Mid-Southern Interdisciplinary Sciences Association in Franklin, Tennessee. Graduate student Chandler Al Namer of the Master of Arts (MA) program in interdisciplinary behavioral science was awarded first place ($125) in the graduate student paper competition for her paper titled “Understanding and Overcoming Barrie...
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...
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...
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...