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Thursday, March 26, 2026

National/International

Traci Brimhall: Intimacy and the Everyday
3/25//26 Bird Notes Daily (Public Radio)
April is National Poetry Month in the US, so we featured some of our favorite poets who write about our feathered friends. Traci Brimhall is an associate professor of poetry at Kansas State University. Her first published collection, from 2013, is called Rookery and features many poems about birds. But Brimhall didn't grow up birding — her interest came later in life.

Insights on Mental Wellness Among Schedulers and Dispatchers
3/25/26 National Aviation Business Assoc.
Tysen Pina, head of the Aviation Department at Kansas State University, learned the importance of taking care of personnel during his time as a U.S. Air Force squadron commander. He added that watching business aviation schedulers and dispatchers at their jobs further opened his eyes.

State/Regional

'Bigger than we thought': Testing exposes silent cancer risks in 3 rural Kansas counties
3/25/26 KAKE
So, she used her connections through the Kansas State University Extension Office to get the Johnson Cancer Research Center at KSU involved. The project took a couple of years to get all the communities on the same page.