The same crystallization process that makes snowflakes grow is helping a Kansas State University physicist and his fellow researchers develop tiny electromechanical probes for living cells. Delivering electrical stimuli to cells will help scientists understand tissue-level processes, such as how wounds heal. Prem Thapa and Bret Flanders Bret Flanders, K-State associate professor of physics, is [...]
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The K-State Women’s Center is inviting students and K-State employees to stop by their kiosk at the K-State Student Union (near the radio station) weekdays 10 a.m. til 2 p.m. and make a valentine for a soldier in Iraq. Supplies are provided. The last day to make a valentine is Tuesday, Feb. 3. Three units [...]
Dog owners who sleep with their pet or permit licks on the face are in good company. Surveys show that more than half of owners bond with their pets in these ways. Research done by a veterinarian at Kansas State University found that these dog owners are no more likely to share the same strains [...]
Just like in humans, cancer can occur in any part of the body of dogs and cats. That’s why one Kansas State University student is researching breast cancer that affects these common pets. Randi King, junior in animal science and industry and pre-veterinary medicine, Rose Hill, is conducting animal breast cancer cell research with Annelise [...]
K-State at Salina is hosting an open house to show off its unmanned aircraft and mobile ground control station. The event is 1-4:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26, at the K-State at Salina Maintenance Hanger (Aero Center). Open house visitors may take pictures and ask questions. An unmanned, aerial vehicle is an unpiloted aircraft. UAVs can [...]
Kansas State University’s new Center for the Advancement of Entrepreneurship has a challenge for K-State students with entrepreneurial ideas. The “Next Big Thing” competition asks K-State students to put their ideas to the test in exchange for $9,000 in prize money. Undergraduate students from all departments and colleges are eligible to take part and can [...]
Although a new nursing home quality rating system has several dimensions, experts say it fails to address perhaps the most important question: Are the residents who live there happy? When choosing a nursing home, Kansas State University aging experts suggest visiting the facility in the morning. If some of the residents are still sleeping while [...]
by Gayle Doll, director of Kansas State University’s Center on Aging Experts at the Kansas State University Center on Aging have been studying exemplary nursing homes in Kansas for more than seven years. We are disappointed with the new government five-star rating system for nursing homes because we think it leaves out an important element: [...]
Kansas State University’s Institute of Personal Financial Planning opens its financial therapy clinic Wednesday, Jan. 28. The clinic blends financial counseling with marriage and family therapy to help individuals, couples and families struggling both financially and emotionally. The clinic is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays on the second floor of the Colony [...]