K-State alum Bill Porter (MS in Physics, 1952) was recognized this spring with a major award from the Options Industry Council. The 82-year-old entrepreneur who built E*Trade into a $3.33 billion discount broker with 2.6 million brokerage accounts received the Sullivan Award for his contributions to the options industry as a co-founder of the New [...]
Three Kansas State University engineering students are recipients of prestigious scholarships from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. The K-State recipients include Jacob Wagner, sophomore in mechanical engineering, Manhattan, $10,000 Reuben Trane Scholarship for the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 school years; Sean Kolich, senior in architectural engineering, Olathe, $10,000 Reuben Trane Scholarship for [...]
Emily Tummons Kansas State University’s Shane Scott, Dodge City, and Emily Tummons, Leawood, have won 2010 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships. Andrew Satterlee, Overland Park, has beenrecognized as an honorable mention. Scott and Tummons are among 278 students who will receive scholarships that are worth as much as $7,500 annually for their final one or two [...]
Kansas State University student Amy Sents is K-State’s 32nd Harry S. Truman Scholar. Sents is a McPherson senior in animal sciences and industry and pre-veterinary medicine with a minor in international agriculture. As a winner of the Truman scholarship, she will receive as much as $30,000 for graduate studies toward a career in public service. [...]
Three students have been nominated for Morris K. Udall Scholarships: Emily Tummons, Leawood; Emily Patton, Prairie Village; and Mark Sowers, Spring Hill. The Udall scholarship is worth as much as $5,000 and is awarded to as many as 80 students each year. Scholarship recipients must be seeking either a career related to the environment or [...]
Kansas State University’s Amy Sents, McPherson, has been named a finalist in the 2010 Harry S. Truman Scholarship competition. The $30,000 Truman scholarship is awarded each year to as many as 65 students who plan to pursue graduate studies and careers in public service. Scholars are selected primarily on leadership potential and communication skills, intellectual [...]
Kansas State University has nominated four students for Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships: Shane Scott, Dodge City; Emily Tummons, Leawood; Andrew Satterlee, Overland Park; and Gage Brummer, Prairie Village. The Goldwater Scholarship competition is for outstanding science, math or engineering students who have a potential for and a commitment to a career in their field. As [...]
Kansas State University has awarded more than $200,000 in scholarships to 19 outstanding high school seniors from Kansas, including two recipients of the largest scholarship in Kansas. K-State received nearly 500 applications for the $80,000 President’s Excellence Scholarship and the $5,000 Kassebaum Scholarship. Nineteen finalists were interviewed Jan. 25 and all received scholarship assistance for [...]
Exemplary volunteer service to youth has earned a K-State student the Scholar of Promise Award from the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Megan Lazzo, senior in family studies and human services, Wichita, is among 29 college students nationwide earning the honor for 2009. The award, which includes a certificate and a signed letter from America’s [...]
Kansas State University is nominating five students to compete for Harry S. Truman Scholarships, worth $30,000. The nominees are Amy Sents, McPherson; Taylor Connolly, Overland Park; Kristi Mendenhall, Salina; Julie Chelewski, Rifle, Colo., and Samuel Brinton, Perry, Iowa. As many as 65 Truman scholarships are awarded each year to students who plan to pursue graduate [...]