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 […]
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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?
Printing out personalized healthcare
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.
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 […]