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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 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...
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...
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...