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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 […]
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Building brocazine
K-State doctoral candidate turns groundbreaking cancer chemistry research into award-winning communication Making any advance in the fight against cancer is a huge feat. But K-State’s Vidya Nadar also managed to compress her monumental cancer research into an award-winning three-minute thesis presentation. What’s brocazine? Brocazine […]
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 […]
Sustainably stylish
From concept to closet, students bring sustainability to every step of the fashion process.
The future is now
What does the future hold? K-State visionaries are reshaping the world as we know it.
Powering progress
K-State’s unique nuclear engineering program tackles an insatiable hunger for energy — and a massive workforce need.
Healthier neighborhoods by design
When it comes to your health, what’s more important: your genetic code or your zip code?
Medicine made to order
Can 3D printers eliminate the organ transplant waiting list? This proactive professor is training tomorrow’s medical manufacturers.
Brave new worlds
Can extended reality bring us closer together? K-State’s expert on creating digital worlds really just wants more mom time.
Supercharging the grid
Imagine a world where the next big blackout never comes.
Invisible allies
Understanding the secret world of microbes and how they are transforming farming, protecting water and sustaining life.












