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Video: K-State's Advanced Manufacturing Institute helps Kansas businesses and gives undergraduate and graduate students professional experience.

 

 

K-Staters in the news - K-State faculty members have a great reputation for being helpful to the news media. We see the results of this cooperation in national and regional news clips. If you know of a current article that we don't have listed, please let us know and we will add it.

 

 

Friday, November 6, 2009
 

K-STATE EXPERT SAYS FEAR OF H1N1 AMPLIFIES NORMAL ANXIETY ABOUT SCHOOL, OFFERS TIPS ON HOW TO COPE: For university students, anxiety about grades is nothing new. But this year, students also may be anxious about the H1N1 flu virus and missing classes.

K-STATE PROFESSOR DISCUSSES THE EMERGENCE OF THE DIGITAL TEXTBOOK INDUSTRY: A Kansas State University professor who recently published his first digital textbook thinks the days of students shelling out hundreds of dollars on textbooks each semester and lugging around heavy, book-filled backpacks could be over soon -- if the emerging digital textbook industry has its way.

K-STATE STUDENT ADVANCES TO FINALS IN MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION: Danielle Zanotti, a Kansas State University senior in psychology, Mustang, Okla., has been invited to interview for a Marshall scholarship.

K-STATE AT SALINA'S DREW SMITH EARNS MASTER CERTIFIED FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR DESIGNATION: Andrew "Drew" Smith, assistant professor of aviation and the aviation maintenance training program lead at Kansas State University at Salina, has earned Master Certified Flight Instructor designation for the first time.

 

Thursday, November 5, 2009
 

K-STATE PROFESSORS OF AGRONOMY, PHYSICS RECEIVE COMMERCE BANK DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE FACULTY AWARDS: An award-winning agronomist and a theoretical physicist will receive Kansas State University's 2009 Commerce Bank Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award.

NEW MEMBERS JOIN K-STATE'S CHAPTER OF KAPPA OMICRON NU: An honor society that recognizes outstanding students in human ecology has new members at Kansas State University. Kappa Omicron Nu recognizes excellence in leadership, research and scholarship.

LADIES' NIGHT AT K-STATE'S BEACH MUSEUM FEATURING ORIGAMI HOLIDAY DECOR: Holiday-inspired origami will be the focus of an upcoming ladies' night workshop at Kansas State University's Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art. The workshop will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19.

 

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
 

INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM OF K-STATE RESEARCHERS CREATING TOOLS TO SHOW HOW DECISIONS ABOUT OGALLALA AQUIFER AFFECT PEOPLE, LOCAL ECONOMIES AND MORE: When water use policies and practices change, they produce a ripple effect in communities, impacting everything from what types of crops a farmer will grow to how many people will move in or out of a town. That's why Kansas State University is pooling experts from multiple disciplines to understand how these changes affect people in communities that depend on the Ogallala Aquifer in western Kansas.

KANSAS BOARD OF REGENTS AND K-STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP BEING RECOGNIZED FOR ADULT BASIC EDUCATION LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: The Kansas Board of Regents' adult education program and Kansas State University's department of educational leadership's Adult Basic Education Leadership Academy will receive the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education-Commission of Professors of Adult Education's 2009 Curriculum Innovation Award at its annual meeting Thursday, Nov. 5, in Cleveland, Ohio.

K-STATE THEATER TO PRESENT BROADWAY MUSICAL 'GUYS AND DOLLS': The Kansas State University theater and dance programs and the K-State department of music will present the Broadway musical "Guys and Dolls" at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 12-14 and a matinee performance at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 15, all in McCain Auditorium.

MIDWEST REGION OF AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY RECOGNIZES K-STATE'S YASMIN PATELL FOR HER SERVICE TO THE CHEMISTRY PROFESSION: Yasmin Patell, assistant teaching scholar in chemistry at K-State, has received the society's E. Ann Nalley Midwest Regional Award for Volunteer Service in recognition of her exemplary service to the chemistry profession.

 

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
 

K-STATE FRESHMAN MANAGES LARGEST SUPERCOMPUTER IN KANSAS, SUPPORTING RESEARCH PROJECTS ACROSS CAMPUS: Many researchers at Kansas State University do such sizeable projects -- like identifying genetic markers that correlate to drought resistance in plants -- that they rely on computational support from the largest supercomputer in the state.

K-STATE BREAKING GROUND AT OLATHE INNOVATION CAMPUS NOV. 12: A groundbreaking for the first building on Kansas State University's Olathe Innovation Campus will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, at the Kansas Bioscience Research Park, Valley Road and College Boulevard.

TEST OF K-STATE'S EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL: A recent test of K-State Alerts -- Kansas State University's emergency notification system -- was highly successful, with at least 98 percent of subscribers receiving text, phone and e-mail messages.

K-STATE'S STUDENT CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS RECEIVES 15TH CONSECUTIVE OUTSTANDING CHAPTER AWARD: For the 15th year in a row, Kansas State University's student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers is being recognized as one of the best in the nation with the institute's Outstanding Chapter Award.

K-STATE ENGINEERS STUDY SURFACE TEXTURE AND ALGAE GROWTH: Two Kansas State University engineers are assessing systematic production methods that could make the costs of algae oil production more reasonable, helping move the U.S. from fossil fuel dependency to renewable energy replacements.

 

Monday, November 2, 2009
 

TESTING DIETING PLAN ON HIMSELF, K-STATE ENGINEERING PROFESSOR USES MATHEMATICAL PROOF TO MAXIMIZE WEIGHT LOSS EFFICIENCY AND PUBLISHES BOOK 'THE WHEN DIET': Leave it to an industrial systems engineer to look at shedding a few pounds as a problem that can be solved by maximizing efficiency. That's how a Kansas State University professor came to write a diet book, "The When Diet: Mathematically Optimizing Eating and Exercise for Weight Loss," published in October by Ithaca Press.

K-STATE SENIOR RESEARCHES THE HISTORY BEHIND THE LONGSTANDING K-STATE, KU RIVALRY AS CAMPUSES PREPARE FOR THE NOV. 7 FOOTBALL MATCHUP: Andrew Hartley, a Kansas State University junior in history from Belle Plaine, has been a K-State enthusiast since he was little and has, like many K-State fans, been a KU opponent. Now he is researching this intrastate rivalry to learn more about its history.

BRASIL GUITAR DUO TO VISIT K-STATE AS PART OF THE 2009-2010 MCCAIN PERFORMANCE SERIES: The Brasil Guitar Duo will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, in All Faiths Chapel as part of Kansas State University's McCain Performance Series.

K-STATE DEVELOPS 2+2 AGREEMENTS WITH BUTLER, COWLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGES: Kansas State University established new 2+2 partnerships with Cowley County Community College in Arkansas City and Butler Community College in El Dorado. The agreements were signed Oct. 9 on the community college campuses.