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 [...]
Kansas State University’s Xinming “Simon” Ou, assistant professor of computing and information sciences, is among a select group of professors chosen worldwide to participate in the Hewlett-Packard Co. Labs Innovation Research Program. K-State is one of only 52 universities in the world to receive a 2010 Innovation Research Award. The annual program provides colleges, universities [...]
Chances are you have received one at some point or another: an e-mail from someone in Africa asking for your help or informing you of a large inheritance from a deceased relative. Whatever the scenario, the sender always asks for a financial contribution. Thanks to the research of a former K-State professor and her son, [...]
To help K-State students, faculty, alumni, sports fans and friends of the university more easily show their school spirit, K-State’s Division of Continuing Education is offering more downloadable items on its giveaway Web site, where showing and sharing purple pride is free. The giveaway Web site offers nine items that are accessible to anyone. New [...]
A project by two K-State at Salina faculty members offers a look at the first black executive in the White House and the tumultuous years leading up to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Judy Collins, associate professor of English, and Alysia Starkey, library director, have launched the civil rights education Web site “E. Frederic [...]
Combining technology and animal health, a group of K-State researchers is developing a more effective way to predict the spread of foot-and-mouth disease and the impact of preventative measures. The researchers are finding that if a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak is not in the epidemic stage, preemptive vaccination is a minimally expensive way to halt the [...]
Research at the Konza Prairie Biological Station and beyond will benefit from a cyber infrastructure grant to connect K-State with other universities in the region. Walter Dodds, university distinguished professor in the Division of Biology, said development of this infrastructure will benefit K-State faculty and students whose research centers on Konza Prairie, a 3,487 hectare [...]
As K-State strives toward a more sustainable campus, a new Web site is connecting the K-Staters making that happen with one another and with the wider community. The K-State Sustainability Web site is now live. Ben Champion, K-State’s director of sustainability, said the site paints a more complete picture of all of the efforts across [...]
A study by three Kansas State University graduate students finds that the 18- to 24-year-old demographic became more politically active during the 2008 U.S. election season through the use of new media, but that the young adults were not necessarily more knowledgeable about politics. The K-State study examined young adults’ media consumption and the effects [...]
A Kansas State University senior is spending the summer at witches’ covens and other pagan events in Kansas to create a better understanding of the pagan community. Jessica Ice, K-State senior in anthropology, Kansas City, Kan., is debunking myths about paganism through summer anthropological work studying the culture in the Kansas City and Lawrence areas. [...]