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Friday, March 27, 2026

State/Regional

K-State research aims to fight cancer rates in western Kansas
3/25/26 KSN
Cancer rates are rising in parts of north central Kansas, and now researchers at Kansas State University are stepping in to look for answers. For the last two and a half years, researchers have been testing groundwater contamination in private wells and radon levels in homes in Russell, Ellsworth and Lincoln counties. “We found that a lot of these houses where people have high incidences of cancer for generations, families had high radon levels,” said Dr. Ryan Rafferty, the interim director of Johnson Cancer Research Center. “Far higher than what should have ever been seen.”

Local

K-State students get hands-on experience in new music instrument repair program
3/26/26 WIBW
Kansas State University students are getting hands-on experience in repairing instruments. The goal isn’t just for students to gain experience, but also to apply it in rural communities where the need for instrument repair is greater. “The number one rule of living in rural Kansas or like a rural community is helping others,” KSU supply chain management student Sophia Glanville said. “Because when you help others, when it comes to your time of need they’re going to help you back. Because that’s just how tight-knit those communities are.”

K-State students bring functional art to life at the Manhattan Arts Center
3/25/26 KSNT
K-State professors Richard Thompson and Frank Hammond made a plan for their students to help upgrade the patio into a designated community space — spending hours in the department’s shop designing functional art pieces. “As a student, you can be very involved in campus and forget that you have a community that’s right here as well,” Kuhlman said. “We spent a lot of time working on this. So for us, we have a normal design studio on top of a furniture studio,” Interior Architecture Graduate Student Kate Jepsen said. “So, we had multiple long nights for our design one. But there are also long nights designing these pieces.”

K-State graduate student places top two at Capitol Graduate Research Summit
3/25/26 The K-State Collegian
Ten graduate students represented K-State at the Kansas Capitol on Tuesday, where they presented their research to state representatives and the public at the Capitol Graduate Research Summit. Two placed — Mia Reyes, graduate student in communications and agriculture education, and Nayara Mota Miranda Soares, doctoral student in grain and food science.