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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, [...]

Kansas State University researchers have found that Nintendo’s Wii Fit helped improve balance for a solider with a traumatic brain injury, a problem many soldiers are facing after serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shawna Jordan, research assistant professor in human nutrition, and Laurie Hildebrand, May graduate in athletic training and pre-physical therapy and 2006 graduate [...]

A study at Kansas State University has found that the majority of married people at an Army post were satisfied with their relationship, despite challenges faced like deployments. “Because of the stressors that have been on the military and military families, particularly in the last decade, it’s easy to focus on the difficulty and dysfunction [...]

The Landon Lecture by Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been rescheduled for 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 3 at McCain Auditorium. “Adm. Mullen was originally scheduled to speak at K-State early in the fall 2009 semester, but asked that his lecture be postponed because of scheduling conflicts. With U.S. [...]

Kansas State University’s ROTC Wildcat Battalion is holding a memorial service Jan. 20 for a cadet killed in a car accident over the holiday break. The services for Lora Elizabeth Marietta, senior in psychology and pre-occupational therapy, Oberlin, will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, at K-State’s All Faiths Chapel. Erich Schwartz, K-State’s director [...]

Army Maj. David K. Anderson will be recognized today as a distinguished graduate of the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Anderson, a December 2009 K-State graduate, will receive the Gen. Douglas MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Award at the Dec. 11 graduation ceremony at Fort Leavenworth. This award is [...]

A new Kansas State University documentary that captures how deployment affects the families of military reservists will air on public television stations in Topeka and Wichita starting Dec. 17. “On Our Behalf: Supporting Guard and Reserve Families” looks at how deployment affects the families of some reservists who have been activated in support of U.S. [...]

Kansas State University’s Army ROTC Wildcat Battalion varsity team took sixth place out of 18 teams at the recent Task Force Dodge Regional Ranger Challenge, a premier intercollegiate competition at Camp Dodge in Iowa. The placement is the best that the battalion has achieved in the last four years, according to Terry Battison, public affairs [...]

Thomas Reust, a junior in mass communications from Allen, started his education at Kansas State University after 14 years in the U.S. Army as a logistics specialist, serving his last tour in Iraq. When arriving at K-State, Reust said he was apprehensive as to how he would be perceived by other K-State students as both [...]