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Tools for tomorrow
The Career Center gives K-State students the tools they need to build their future To K-State, a successful job interview isn’t just about the interaction itself; it’s about the intentional preparation that comes before. The Career Center works side by side with faculty and advisors […]
On the right track
What started as a fun field trip turned into a defining career experience for K-Stater Unique Robinson. Full steam ahead! K-State’s business team is helping students chug along toward bright futures. Through K-State’s Rise Up program — an organization dedicated to furthering the opportunities […]
Posters, pitches, progress
An innovative community model in Logan is reshaping rural living, and K-State students are documenting its impact. Rural Kansas towns continue to shrink year by year as younger generations move to urban areas for education and job opportunities. This can increase social isolation and […]
Teaching the teacher
While studying abroad in Italy, a K-State alum gained a deeper appreciation for community and the people who shape it. Traveling to a new place is exciting and enriching. But elementary education major Irene Hoff learned it’s not the destination that makes the trip […]
Traveling teacher
For K-Stater Addie Mead, a trip to Italy brings her dream of merging travel and teaching closer to reality. Addie Mead has always had a love for travel, so a study abroad experience was a natural next step in her college career. But the […]
Follow the Kompass
K-State gives freshmen an informative headstart on navigating college life through its Kompass program College is an amalgamation of new. New classes, new schedules, new living spaces, new food, new friends and new life goals. This can be a shocking time for a student, […]
Double duty
The Graduate Student Parent Success Initiative is knocking down this hurdle for K-State’s grad students balancing studies and parenthood.
Space simulation
K-State seniors help the Cosmosphere reimagine space camp with their VR simulation. Aboard the International Space Station, astronauts often must identify and seal small air leaks in the hull caused by debris contact. The Cosmosphere mimics this process during its summer Cosmos camps, giving […]
Charting new skies
A high-flying partnership with General Atomics is propelling K-State Salina students toward cutting-edge careers in uncrewed aircraft. Innovators have been testing the limits of pilotless flight since 1783 when the Montgolfier brothers launched a hot air balloon without passengers, marking the earliest example of […]
Cosmic collaboration
From simulation to inspiration, K-State students are creating hands-on experiences for young campers that bring space down to Earth. K-State Salina and the Cosmosphere Science and Space Museum recently launched a partnership, inspiring the next generation of STEAM students to shoot for the stars. […]









