Kennesaw State Selects Clendenin Graduate Fellows

announced Wednesday the selection of nine Clendenin Graduate Fellows for the coming academic year.

The master’s and doctoral students represent the fourth group to receive the award, which funds up to two years of master’s-level studies or up to three years of doctoral studies at any accredited educational institution.

According to a statement from the university, the Clendenin Graduate Fellows Program was established at Kennesaw State in 2008 by the Clendenin Family with a $1 million endowment. Tom Clendenin has served as a KSU Foundation trustee since 1999.

The 2012 Clendenin Graduate Fellows are: 

• Bright Asante-Appiah – DBA, Kennesaw State University
• Kelly Bainbridge – M.A. in Psychology and Integrative Health Studies Certificate, University of West Georgia
• Haluk Bingol – Ph. D in International Conflict Management, Kennesaw State University
• Daniel Gagnon – Ed. D in Teacher Leadership for Learning, Kennesaw State University
• Glen Ishoy – Ph. D in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University
• Matthew Jones – M.D., Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Health Sciences University
• Diane Keen – DNS, Kennesaw State University
• Bhupinder Naidu – Ed. D in Teaching and Learning Mathematics Education, Georgia State University
• Dana Russell – MSc in Human Osteology and Funerary Archaeology, University of Sheffield, England 

 In addition to the new class, several Clendenin Fellows graduated or will graduate later this year. They are:

• Helen Cauley – M.A.P.W., Kennesaw State University
• Juanne Greene – DBA, Kennesaw State University
• Huy Huynh – Ph. D in Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Diane Keen – MSN, Kennesaw State University
• Alyson E. Lischka – Ed. D, Teacher Leadership for Learning Adolescent Education-Mathematics, Kennesaw State University
• Victor Marshall – DBA, Kennesaw State University
• Herb Mattord – Ph. D in Information Systems, Nova Southeastern University
• Ivan Pulinkala – Ed. D in Higher Education Administration, University of Alabama 
• Maryan Rogers –  Ph. D in Teaching and Learning Mathematics, Georgia State University
• Ivan Stefanov – Ph. D in Applied Biological Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium
• Jim Wright – Ed. D Education in Leadership for Learning, Kennesaw State University