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K-State partners with Atom Grants to power faculty funding discovery

Kansas State University has established an institutional membership with Atom Grants, providing faculty, staff and graduate students access to an AI-powered...

Cooking up great research

What do you get when you put an entomologist, journalist, engineer, statistician and graphic artist around the same table? At K-State, you get a recipe for...

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Playing for the prairie

Inspired by the Kansas prairie, K-State undergraduate researcher Lauren Seybold’s LeafSpan board game has middle schoolers explore climate science through...

Lauren Seybold.

Uniting K-State's commitment to holistic corporate engagement

K-State is bringing colleges, departments, units and researchers closer together to create stronger connections with industry. By working as One K-State, the...

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People with Purpose: Erika Geisbrecht

As a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Erika Geisbrecht is helping to answer some of science's biggest questions — while...

Geisbrecht analyzes lab samples with two students. All three wear blue lab coats and goggles.

A cooler kind of capsaicin

Could the chemistry behind chili peppers help protect the heart—without the burn? Doctoral student Nik Carpenter is studying a capsaicin-inspired compound...

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Pushing the limits

Reese Greenlee, K-State assistant professor of architecture, is testing the limits of 3D-printed concrete to see if it can provide affordable, adaptable and...

An architecture professor sits on piles of 3D-printed concrete.

K-State brings together global experts to strengthen animal health preparedness

K-State and the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility brought together more than 110 leaders from industry, government and academia for a global symposium...

Four college-level faculty and researchers stand together in an open forum hall.

Spinning sustainable food packaging

Elif Peker, a spring 2026 master's graduate in food sciences, is developing methods that can electrospin sorghum byproducts into useful, biodegradable packaging...

A female graduate student in a labcoat and safety glasses works with jars of liquid behind a research hood.

K-State graduate student explores cattle grazing as invasive grass management tool

Tasha Macholan is studying whether one routine management decision — where producers place cattle supplement — could improve calf performance while helping...

Two people crouch over a metal grate in a field with cows standing behind them.