by Claudia Bode | May 17, 2022 | News
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,...
by Claudia Bode | May 3, 2022 | News
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...
by Claudia Bode | May 3, 2022 | News
K-State Professor Walter Dodds and graduate student Molly Fisher visited Guam last month. 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...
by Claudia Bode | Apr 29, 2022 | News
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...
by Claudia Bode | Apr 29, 2022 | News
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...
by Claudia Bode | Apr 13, 2022 | News
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...
