Global impact
At K-State, the brightest minds are taking on the world’s biggest challenges through innovative research and collabortive partnerships. With your investment, we can provide solutions that matter.
The last drop
Kansas State University experts tackle global water scarcity, including Kansas. Discover their innovative solutions for a sustainable future.
Biting back at mosquitoes
To stop disease spread, K-State researchers give mosquitoes a taste of their own medicine. When mosquitos ruin a beautiful summer night by treating you like an all-you-can-eat buffet, who cares if these blood suckers get sick? Well, two K-State biologists do. Bianca Morejon and […]
Tiny tech, big yield
K-State professor earns a $2 million grant to further precision agriculture with his nanoscale soil sensors. Farming is all about making decisions. Farmers entertain many factors when deciding when, where and what to plant, and how to take care of their crops. An outsider […]
Latest Global impact
The future is now
What does the future hold? K-State visionaries are reshaping the world as we know it. GPS, MRI medical technology and crops that grow in difficult climates — these are just a few innovations we’ve come to rely on. They were all invented at a […]
The future is nicely nuclear
How do we meet the need of energy-guzzling technology safely, efficiently and affordably? K-State is finding answers. Everyone on Earth has been exposed to some form of radiation. Think dental or medical X-rays, but also exit signs, smoke detectors and even bananas. Yes, bananas! […]
The future is healthy neighborhoods
What’s more important: your genetic code or your zip code? Can a designer keep you from having a heart attack? Kendra Kirchmer certainly thinks so, which is why she founded the Vital Design Studio and teaches future designers to create spaces with an eye […]
The future is medicine made to order
Can 3D printers eliminate the organ transplant waiting list? Imagine sitting in a cardiology exam room, anxiously awaiting test results. The doctor enters to discuss your diagnosis with a life-size, 3D replica of a heart. Not just any heart, but your heart, which the […]
The future is just beyond your fingertips
Can extended reality bring us closer together? K-State’s expert on creating digital worlds just wants technology to fade away. Hunting for microleaks aboard the space station. Speeding through a haunted forest. Flying through a hurricane. Thanks to future-forward professor Michael Oetken and his creative […]
The future is keeping the lights on
K-State professor leads the charge to make electric grid blackouts a thing of the past Imagine a world where the next big blackout never comes. Where even in the face of tornadoes, cyberattacks or surging demand from AI data centers, the electricity grid hums […]
The future is under your feet
Understanding the secret world of microbes and how they’re transforming farming, protecting water and sustaining life. They’re microscopic, invisible to the naked eye and almost everywhere. Microbes can survive in most environments — from radioactive waste to the soil under our feet. And, in Kansas, […]
Cultivating curiosity
Former K-State faculty plant seeds for the future with new endowed chair A passion for discovery: That’s what fuels Barbara Valent and Forrest Chumley. The retired K-State College of Agriculture faculty members spent their careers nurturing curiosity and focusing on problems that stretch far […]
Cargill donates $1 million to K-State’s Agriculture Innovation Initiative
With a $1 million gift to the Kansas State University Agriculture Innovation Initiative, Cargill continues to accelerate the university’s efforts to advance global food security solutions through interdisciplinary research, infrastructure expansion and industry collaboration. The recent donation places K-State within 5% of the initiative’s […]
Protect the prairie
K-State scientists use AI mapping technology to preserve our beloved Kansas prairies. The rolling Flint Hills is the largest remaining stretch of tallgrass prairie in the entire world, but it used to be even bigger. Now woody shrubs and trees are threatening to turn […]