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Three Kansas State University electrical and computer engineering professors will use a National Science Foundation grant for a project to help military veterans enter the work force at an accelerated pace. Professors David Soldan, Don Gruenbacher and Noel Schulz will use the $146,000 grant for “From Defense to Degree: Accelerating Engineering Degree Opportunities for Military [...]

Kansas State University is among the most military-friendly schools in the nation, according to G.I. Jobs magazine. The magazine has included K-State on its 2011 list of schools that cater to the military. It’s the second year in a row K-State has received the honor, which is given to only 15 percent of all colleges, [...]

Michael Wesch has earned many accolades for his expertise and creativity in the use of digital technology to enhance student learning. He’s received national professor of the year honors, been named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic, and has been dubbed “the explainer” by Wired magazine. Now the associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas [...]

A national biosecurity symposium Monday, Aug. 30, in Kansas City, Mo., will showcase biosecurity research and industry at Kansas State University and the Kansas City Animal Health Corridor. “Biosecurity: Our Regional and National Response” will be 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Kansas City Convention Center. National and regional experts will discuss the challenges [...]

The tumultuous feelings parents have when they first learn their child will be born with Down syndrome give way to joy and resilience, according to preliminary data from a study by researchers at Kansas State University and Texas Tech University. Briana Nelson Goff and Nicole Springer, both mothers of a child with Down syndrome, can [...]

Capt. Donald Stubbings of the Kansas State University police department is taking part in a national effort to curb violence against women. Stubbings is among 24 law enforcement executives from across the country selected to participate in the National Campus Law Enforcement Leadership Institute on Violence Against Women. The four-day institute is in Austin, Texas. [...]

It seems like life couldn’t get much sweeter for former Kansas State University football player Nick Leckey. He recently wrapped up his sixth year as an offensive lineman in the NFL. He’s playing in New Orleans, La., a city he and his wife, Erin, have come to love. And, if that weren’t enough, he just [...]

Beginning with the fall 2010 semester, Kansas State University will require most newly enrolled students to complete an online alcohol education program. K-State is implementing AlcoholEdu for College. The nationally recognized, Web-based alcohol education program will be mandatory for all newly enrolled, degree-seeking students on K-State’s Manhattan and Salina campuses who are age 21 or [...]

With binge drinking among college students a concern for many, two Kansas State University researchers may have found a way to combat it through messages tailored to a student’s psyche. Megan Miller, graduate student in psychology, Pueblo, Colo., and Laura Brannon, associate professor of psychology, researched binge drinking and college students’ intent to binge drink. The [...]

An expert on how colleges and universities can make a student’s first year a success will present Kansas State University’s 2010 Chester E. Peters Lecture on Student Development. Mary Stuart Hunter will discuss “Moving Beyond Osmosis: Institutional Responsibilities for First-Year Student Success” at 10 a.m. Friday, April 16, in Forum Hall at the K-State Student [...]