Alyssa Venn

Alyssa Venn of Peachtree City won third place at KSU's 2018 Analytics Day for her poster on worker safety in the energy fields.

Alyssa Venn of Peachtree City was selected as one of the 2018 Birla Carbon Scholars out of 20 applicants. As part of the Birla Carbon Scholars program, she received a $4000 total stipend during the summer to work with Dr. Joe DeMaio full time on a research project looking at worker safety in the energy fields. At the end of the summer, she will present their work at the Birla Carbon Symposium on August 30, 2018.

Kennesaw State University was represented by nearly 100 students, including Peachtree City's Alyssa Venn, at the 2017 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in Memphis, Tennesee. Alyssa Venn presented her research on the health of college students in the form of a poster. Kennesaw State undergraduate students are showcasing their research on a variety of subjects, including architecture, art, biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, psychology and public health. NCUR gives participants the opportunity to work with faculty mentors and present their scholarly abstracts and creative works in a formal, professional setting. It also provides students a chance to interact, prepare for graduate school and enhance their workforce skills. "Having so many of our students attend this respected conference shows that the University is committed to engaging them in research pursuits," said Amy Buddie, director of Kennesaw State's Office of Undergraduate Research. "We strive to make research an integral part of the undergraduate experience at Kennesaw State, in all disciplines, and to become a premier resource for undergraduate research both at KSU and nationally."

Alyssa Venn of Peachtree City has been a member of the Undergraduate Research Club since her first semester of freshman year, and was elected as Vice President for the 2018-2019 school year.

Alyssa Venn works with KSU's Burruss Institute, using Excel and SPSS to analyze and write reports on data sent in from external sources.