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 next hunger solution
Feeding the world in an ever-changing climate requires innovation and global cooperation. Kansas State University is leading the world in global food security with four Feed the Future Innovation Labs.
Private: Expanding horizons
K-State’s Education Abroad program empowers students to step out of their comfort zone, deal with uncertainty and navigate cultural differences.
Climate solutions
K-State soil scientist and Nobel Laureate pursues ways to improve and protect the environment.
Latest Global impact
Tackling cybersecurity threats
K-State engineer to build nationally funded automated security software From global IT outages to regular ransomware attacks, the cybercrime landscape is quickly evolving — sometimes too quickly for software manufacturers to keep up. In a world where AI can be a dirty word, one […]
Trailblazers take flight
Women’s Air Race Team places among top teams in national competition Aviation is well known for being a male-dominated field. Because of this, K-State Salina empowers women in the field to soar — both in the air and the classroom. Most recently, the Women’s […]
Grave practices that grow grasslands
K-State fashion professor’s sustainable burial garments showcased in museum exhibit While many people who’re passionate about environmental practices look to composting or fighting carbon emissions, K-State fashion studies professor Sherry Haar has chosen a different medium: couture for coffins. Haar has dedicated her work […]
Constructing courts, expanding experiences
K-State women’s basketball team takes trip to Rwanda Most basketball players, including those on the K-State women’s team, expect their most memorable experiences to be playing on courts — not building them. That expectation met a surprising reality in mid-May when players and coaches […]
Leading with purpose
Learn more about K-State graduate student Chibuzor Mirian and her recent accomplishments like earning the Mandela Washington Fellowship.
Sci-fi realities
K-State’s Raj Kumar Pal lands DoD grant to develop shape-changing structures K-State’s Raj Kumar Pal, assistant professor in mechanical and nuclear engineering, is shaking up the field with a $400,000 Department of Defense grant to develop shape-changing structures using reservoir computing— a cutting-edge form […]
Enhancing accessibility
K-State Salina’s Siny Joseph leads a national effort to revolutionize indoor navigation for people with disabilities through the NSF-funded MABLE project
Pawsitive pain relief
K-State’s breakthrough in canine pain relief with a new opioid formulation, promising effective treatment and deterring opioid abuse in dogs
Learning across borders
Jill Applegate ’16 can draw a direct line from her involvement with K-State’s International Service Teams program to being a public defense lawyer in New York City.
K-State student’s play lights up Kentucky stage
Emmett Spaw’s “Three Shot” debuts at Owensboro’s Comedy Crawl, showcasing his journey from bored debate student to acclaimed playwright.