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KSU grad Ahmed Alsaqufi bringing aquaculture to 'Saudi Vision 2030'
Winters in Central Kentucky aren’t always particularly cold. To one Frankfort newcomer, however, the winter of 2007 was the coldest he’d ever encountered. In 2007, Ahmed S. Alsaqufi was a Kentucky State University master’s student fresh from Saudi Arabia and eager to learn aquaculture. He almost didn’t make it. Read the full story at the Frankfort State-Journal.
KSU psychology students chosen to attend National Security Analysis and Intelligence summer seminars
Kentucky State University psychology students Ivan Duvall and Chandler Al Namer are among 80 students from 28 universities from around the U.S. who have been selected to attend the 2017 National Security Analysis & Intelligence Summer Seminars (NSAISS) in Washington DC. The seminars, which Mr. Duvall will attend in June and Ms. Al Namer will attend in August, will engage students from institutions such as Duke University, Florida I...
KSU joins the Reforest Frankfort celebration
Kentucky State University (KSU) partnered with Tree City USA, the Franklin County Government, the City of Frankfort, and the Division of Forestry, for a 20-year celebration of Reforest Frankfort. The University along with many volunteers from the local area joined Saturday, April 1 to plant 2,000 trees Cave Spring Park Sky Trail. The participants spent the day sowing, and learning about the benefits of protecting natural resou...
Young KSU grad opens store to fill downtown need
Growing up in Detroit, Nocomis Miner II didn’t always know how he’d get himself to school in the morning or where he’d find dinner at night. When he was still in high school, he even lost his brother Robert Cooper Smith to a gunman who mistook him for another man. “Growing up was hard,” said Miner, now 25. Education was his only “outlet” and he pushed himself to succeed. Read the full story at State Journal.com