Kansas State University

In this issue

Updates from leadership

• Student Life Programs Merger Work Group meets, invites suggestions
• First-Gen Focus

News and research

• KSDB-FM celebrates 67 years
• Helping ourselves: NW Kansas citizens are improving their communities
• Cats' Den relocates for Union renovation
• Student athletic passes on sale on KSIS
• Student Alumni Board selects 13 new members to assist K-State Alumni Association

Shared governance

• Highlights from the March 8 Faculty Senate meeting

Events

• Reminder: K-State Alerts test today
• Ecologist to address genomics/phenomics approaches to study insect herbivory
• 2016 Faculty and Professional Staff Retiree Ceremony and Reception
• Community planner to present '4-D Planning in the Century of Complexity'
• Opening of Engineering Hall to be marked by ribbon-cutting ceremony
• Grad student workshop today on using citation managers
• SafeZone training March 23
• Walk-In Wednesday this week, Connections 4 Your Career next week
• K-State's Beef Cattle Institute to host International Symposium on Beef Cattle Welfare
• K-State Cancer Fighters to host HPV research presentation March 22
• K-State blood drive March 28-31

University life

• Reminder: Extraordinary Student Award nominations due this week

Kudos, publications and presentations

• New members selected for Kansas State University's junior honorary Chimes
• Community development program honored with exceptional program award
• Mortar Board senior honorary selects members for 2016-2017
• Kansas State University's sophomore leadership honorary selects members for 2016-2017
• Kansas State University College of Engineering alumni honored for career success
• Two alumni join Kansas State University College of Engineering Hall of Fame
• Office of Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry awards summer research and travel grants
• Journalism and mass communications students score big at annual Kansas Association of Broadcasters awards

Gifts

• New scholarship honors legacy of mentoring young pilots
• Kansas Masons give $2.5 million to Kansas State University programs

Legislative update

• Legislative update

Newsletters, magazines and blogs

• Graduate School spring 2016 newsletter
• March 2016 Lifelines — College of Veterinary Medicine newsletter

Volunteer opportunities

• Volunteer for electronic waste recycling event in Manhattan