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New Kansas initiative to advance resilient infrastructure research
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,...
Kansas teens and teachers attend Nebraska conference promoting women in science
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...
Two Kansas researchers study nutrient pollutants in Guam waters, launch new collaboration
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...
Kansas NSF EPSCoR invests in young faculty with First Awards
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 students receive awards for lightning talks
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...
Mobile Microbe Exhibit Visits Independence, Kansas
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...
Celebrating champions on the court (and in the lab)
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...
Peggy Schultz won Award from the Kansas Association for Environmental Education
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...
In the Zone: New method to gauge nutrient flow across buffer zone between land and streams
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....