July 12, 2024
Summer programming update
The K-State College of Agriculture/K-State Research and Extension Diversity Programs Office is halfway through its summer programs.
This summer, the office is hosting and partnering for a variety of programs, including three long-term summer programs: KSRE Summer Research Fellows Program, Project Impact Multicultural Academic Program for Success, or MAPS, and KS-LSAMP Research Immersion: Pathways to STEM, or RiPS. View the list of participants in all of the programs.
Congratulations to the MAPS cohort on successfully completing their program four-week program on June 28. The 2024 cohort has 26 students, 10 of whom are incoming agriculture students. We look forward to welcoming them back in the fall. The program helps incoming freshmen students from the colleges of Agriculture, Business, Engineering, Architecture and Arts and Sciences transition into K-State. This summer, all MAPS students took a free three-credit hour speech course through K-State and will receive a renewable scholarship for their freshmen year. The program is hosted through the Office of Student Belonging and Inclusion.
Additionally, the KSRE Fellows and RiPS Scholars have now completed over half of their program at K-State. We are excited to see the continued growth and success of our summer program participants. Thanks to all our summer mentors and partners for your continued time and efforts.
The Multicultural Summer Research Fellows Program program is designed so that the participants receive the primary benefit of learning hands-on research techniques, methods, procedures, and about related topics. This summer, 18 fellows are on campus for nine weeks conducting in-depth research within an agricultural-related field of their interest. Students will have produced tangible research results demonstrating their knowledge of experimental research and will report the results in a final research symposium from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on July 25. Two fellows, Dawn Earles and Myles Lowery, will present their research from 9-10 a.m. on July 22 in Room 231 of Waters Hall. All are invited to attend the symposium.
RiPS is designed to connect students from community colleges and at K-State with research and the opportunities that a bachelor’s degree and career in STEM can offer. The RiPS students gain the opportunity to do research with a K-State faculty member within a field of their interest for eight weeks on campus. The program also offers information about transferring to K-State and seminars about graduate school and research. This summer, the RiPS participants will complete the program on July 26. Zelia Wiley and Summer Santillana are serving as the coordinators for the 2024 RiPS program in partnership with the Office of Student Success with April Mason-Taylor and Ana Guane serving as the graduate assistants. The scholars will participate in a 3-Minute Pitch symposium on July 23 to highlight their research. The symposium is in partnership with other Research Experiences for Undergraduates on campus. All are invited to attend.
This summer, we also partnered to host multiple K-State Jr. MANRRS, or Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences, events. Read more about these events.
For more information about upcoming events or to collaborate with the Diversity Programs Office, please call 785-532-5793 or Zelia Wiley at zwiley@k-state.edu.