The holiday season can add many social and cultural challenges to a one’s diet and exercise regimen, according to Melissa Bopp, assistant professor of kinesiology. “For people who are really interested in continuing to be active over the holidays, sometimes it just takes a little bit of recognition,” she said. “Maybe you don’t get to [...]
The crops team has again claimed the title as national champion, a feat that K-State teams have accomplished in eight of the last 11 years. The team won both the Kansas City Board of Trade and Chicago CME Group Collegiate Crops contests to win the 2009 national championship. K-State placed first at both Kansas City [...]
Diners in New Zealand will have a K-State graduate student to thank when they’re able to make more informed choices about where they eat. Katie Filion, a master’s student in biomedical science, has a thesis project with global implications. She is investigating New Zealand’s options for a national food business or restaurant hygiene grading system. [...]
The K-State dance program will present “WinterDance 2009″ at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3-5, with a matinee performance at 2:30 p.m. Dec. 5. All performances will be in Nichols Theater. The show will have performances that feature a variety of dance, including ballet, modern, jazz and tap. Andrea Showronek, a professional dancer and choreographer, is the [...]
The Grammy-nominated swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will put on its “Wild and Swingin’ Holiday Party” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4, in McCain Auditorium. The band offers a blend of high-energy and old-school jive with influences from swing, blues, rock, New Orleans jazz and big band. The performance will feature yuletide classics turned [...]
As she held her newborn son, despair, grief and denial wrapped themselves around Briana Nelson Goff. By society’s standards he was flawed. Her worst fears, she thought, had come true. For Nicole Springer, pregnancy was filled with worry, tests and emergencies. But the moment her daughter burst into the world she knew this unusual baby [...]
By playing the video game Rock Band for an hour, K-State students were able to help a pair of psychology professors with their research to understand how people can achieve flow while at work or while performing skilled tasks. Clive Fullagar, a professor, and Patrick Knight, an associate professor, found that — like Goldilocks — [...]
If colonial patriot Thomas Paine were making an argument for revolution today, “Common Sense” would more likely be a bumper sticker slogan or a YouTube video than a pamphlet. That’s why an English professor at K-State thinks that teaching millennial students about rhetoric shouldn’t be limited to the page. Instead, it should be a multimodal [...]
Students in a persuasive writing class are learning to find their James Earl Jones voice, and it has nothing to do with emulating the actor’s trademark resonance. Instead, students are learning to balance facts with passion in their writing by taking a cue from “Field of Dreams,” thanks to Abby Knoblauch, a K-State assistant professor [...]
In a presentation today to the Kansas Board of Regents, President Kirk Schulz reported on what his administration has done to ensure that sound business and management practices are in place at K-State now and into the future. The regents tasked Grant Thornton LLP with conducting an exit analysis upon the retirement of former K-State [...]