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Purple Praise: August 2025
Aug. 8, 2025National Extension awards, journal publications and engineering fellowships: notable accomplishments from August 2025
Purple Praise: July 2025
July 11, 2025National leadership awards, presentations abroad and concert performances: standout Wildcat achievements from July 2025.
Purple Praise: June 2025
June 13, 2025Powercat Motorsports, Hall of Fame nominations and curated art talks: standout Wildcat achievements from June 2025.
Purple Praise: May 2025
May 9, 2025Contest wins, fellowship appointments and Washington D.C. trips: standout Wildcat achievements from May 2025.
Purple Praise: April 2025
April 11, 2025NASA research hosting, book publications and international festival performances: standout Wildcat accomplishments from April 2025.
Before the fire: Large-scale study aims to improve burning management of Flint Hills
Sep. 18, 2018Kansas State University researchers are part of a large collaborative project that is using unmanned aircraft to improve the Kansas Flint Hills Smoke Management Plan.
The great escape: With mock space capsule, researchers partner with NASA to study astronaut fitness
Sep. 26, 2017A Kansas State University kinesiology research team has built a lifesize Orion spacecraft model to study astronaut fitness in spaceflight and during landing.
Total eclipse of the sun: Expert offers tips to safely view solar eclipse
Aug. 10, 2017Kansas State University physicist Chris Sorensen offers tips to safely watch the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse, both inside and outside the path of totality.
Astronauts experience decrease in blood vessel function during spaceflight, study finds
May 9, 2017A Kansas State University kinesiology study has found that astronauts aboard the International Space Station have decreased physical fitness because of a decrease in the way oxygen...
Engineer patents waterlike polymer to create high-temperature ceramics
March 20, 2017Using five ingredients — silicon, boron, carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen — a Kansas State University engineer has created a liquid polymer that can transform into a ceramic with valuable...