What Happened? On Thursday, Sept. 19, Officer Dennis Turner of the Orlando Police Department arrested two 6-year-olds — a girl and a boy — at an Orlando charter school, according to CBS. The children were allegedly arrested for misbehaving. Turner, a member of the Orlando Police Department's volunteer Reserve Officer Program and a school resource officer, brought the children to...

Kennesaw State's College of Computing and Software Engineering partnered with Florida-based firm Haskell to develop a new virtual reality training aid for its employees, announced in a KSU press release on Thursday, Sept. 12. The project, known as the Hazard Elimination/Risk Oversight program, was originally conceived by Haskell’s corporate venture arm Dysruptek, according to KSU News. The program brings the...

The Kennesaw State Coles College of Business began its first wave of rolling out a new engagement program for students at the college. The program, Flight Academy, allows Coles students to track points based on their attendance of events, activities and tasks which are relevant to career experience. These scores can also be listed on a webpage which students can...

Students participated in a Global School Strike Friday, Sept. 20, to rally in favor of Climate Change recognition in government policy. Nearly 1,000 young people marched two blocks from Atlanta City Hall to the capitol building Friday afternoon in downtown Atlanta, according to 11 Alive news. The event promoted students and employees alike to attend in order to emphasize the...

What Happened? On Saturday, Sept. 14, 10 drones struck two facilities of Saudi Arabia's state-run oil company, Aramco, according to CNN. The attack was at the oil fields of Abqaiq and Khurais. Yemeni Houthi rebels took responsibility. Despite the Houthis claiming the attack, multiple nations believe that the power of the strike surpassed the technological capabilities of the rebel group....

Kennesaw State's Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs Kathy Schwaig appointed a new interim vice provost of global affairs Aug. 23 after Dr. Ron Matson departed from the position earlier in August. Dr. Sheb True has only been the new interim vice provost for a week now, but plans to help students readily access more opportunities with the...

The Kennesaw State football team opened its season Saturday, Aug. 31, and fans were not disappointed. A whopping 2,621 students were in attendance for the 59-0 win over Point University. Students who attended the football games in years past were familiar with the lack of turnout in the student section at Fifth-Third Bank Stadium."[It was] great to see the student...

Kennesaw State hosted its fourth annual Campus Safety Day on the Marietta campus Thursday, Sept. 5, with events engaging students in various services offered by the university."Safety and preparedness is everyone's responsibility," Director of KSU's Office of Emergency Management Andy Altizer said. The event comes during National Fire Prevention Week. KSU showed off the variety of their public safety offices...

Kennesaw State students presented at the Birla Carbon Symposium sharing STEM-focused research on Aug. 29, with junior Destiny Paige winning the Top Poster Award. Paige conducted research in which she "introduced a novel composition of bioactive glass containing mixed-valence cerium oxide nanoparticles into hamster kidney cells," according to KSU News. As the top presenter, Paige received an additional $2,000 stipend...

Kennesaw State recently selected Dr. Michael Whitman to serve as the new executive director of the Institute for Cybersecurity Workforce Development."The institute will strive to increase the quality and availability of security-related instruction on campus, as well as serve to increase the public and private sectors’ awareness of what KSU has to offer," Whitman said. Whitman said he is both...