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17 state colleges and universities are partnered in a new $24 million, five-year effort to advance research on resilient and socially equitable infrastructure in Kansas. The National Science Foundation EPSCoR initiative is led by Dr. Belinda Sturm, Professor of Civil,...

Last month three high school students and two teachers from Lawrence, Kansas, attended the 23rd Annual Women in Science Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska. By featuring role models of successful women in a variety of fields, this conference seeks to expand understanding...

This spring a graduate student and her mentor traded their landlocked lab in the heartland for the sunny island shores of Guam to study coral reefs. While much is known about how warming waters, diseases, and sedimentation harm corals, less is known about how these...

This April, Kansas NSF EPSCoR announced its 2022 First Award winners: Assistant Professors Tania Kim and Zak Ratajczak. Both work at Kansas State University, conducting research related to the microbiomes of aquatic, plant, and soil systems in Kansas as described...

Four graduate students from two Kansas universities have been named winners of the lightning talk competition at the 2022 Kansas NSF EPSCoR Research Symposium. With just five-minutes to present, each of these students wowed the judges with engaging visuals and...

When a large green tent showed up on April 2 on the lawn of the public library, residents of Independence, Kansas, found more than books to check out. A slew of specimens—from bones to biofilms, twigs to taxidermy—sat on display inside the tent that sunny Saturday as...

The month of madness is finally over, and two teams stand victorious: one by fiery comeback; the other never giving up its lead. On April 4, the University of Kansas Jayhawks nixed a double-digit deficit to win the men’s NCAA basketball tournament. Their win came a...

Dr. Schultz at the KACEE award ceremony in Manhattan, Kansas, April 1, 2022. (Photo by Helen Alexander)    University of Kansas scientist and educator Peggy Schultz won the John K. Strickler Memorial Award from the Kansas Association for Environmental...

Contaminated waterways are a major problem in agricultural regions. Much of this contamination comes from storm-soaked farmland, where the rainwater sluices nitrates from fertilized crops or animal waste, and then whisks it downhill to nearby streams and rivers....