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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.
Kansas State University featured in Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense national report
Oct. 18, 2017Kansas State University is featured in several sections of the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense's special bipartisan report released on Wednesday, Oct. 18.
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...
Kansas State University is the 'Silicon Valley for biodefense,' according to Blue Ribbon Study Panel
Jan. 30, 2017When the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense visited Kansas State University for a series of agrodefense discussions, the university cemented its status as a national leader in animal...
A good night's sleep: Engineers develop technology for special needs children
Feb. 24, 2016A Kansas State University engineering team is using a National Science Foundation grant to help special needs children through technology that connects sleep data with daytime learning.