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
Installing joy
K-State students make a difference in Guatemala by refurbishing and hand-delivering laptops to grateful scholarship students. Remember the extreme excitement you felt as a child on Christmas morning? You walked out into your living room and the whole house seemed to be filled with […]
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 […]
Preparing for paws-ible emergencies
Top tips to create the purr-fect pet emergency plan from a K-State veterinarian With extreme weather events happening around the U.S., you might be thinking how to prepare your family for disasters. Don’t forget to include your canine, feline and reptile family members in […]
A room with a view
K-State Salina faculty members explore off-earth living in new book Do you ever gaze into the night sky and wonder if you could live out there? Three K-State professors have written a book that might answer your question. “Survival in Space” focuses on space […]
This award is for the dogs
Research on deadly tapeworm garners award for K-State student Veterinary medicine student Amanda Roth received an American Veterinary Medical Foundation summer research stipend to support her second summer studying Echinococcus multilocularis, a rare tapeworm that infects dogs and humans. The parasitic infection results in […]
Going on offense against heart disease
K-State doctoral candidate validates new way of predicting heart risk. What if we could better forecast heart disease risk for people in their 30s? We can, thanks to the American Heart Association’s new way to calculate cardiovascular risk, and to Britton Scheuermann, a K-State […]
From plant to plate
The Feeding Your Future summer camp introduces high schoolers to careers in food science. With a growing number of mouths to feed and challenges that threaten a sufficient and sustainable food supply, the need for solutions increases by the day. The Kansas State University […]
Lasers, physics and cattle — oh my!
K-State prof is using lasers and physics to help Kansas ag producers. Lasers and cattle might not seem like a natural pairing, but Brian Washburn disagrees. Washburn, adjunct physics professor and project leader at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is using […]
Bugging out
K-State professor spreads awareness on insects’ positive effect on food-security efforts Bugs in a burger are normally a health code violation waiting to happen. But what if bugs were used to feed our cattle — before the burgers hit the cookout? K-State professor and […]