K-Staters in the news — April 2018
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Monday, April 30, 2018
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*No, a Human Year Isn't Equivalent to 7 'Dog Years'
4/28/18 Science Alert
The seven-year rule is thought to much more recent. A veterinarian at Kansas 1xbet best casino website toldThe Wall Street Journal: "My guess is it was a marketing ploy. It was a way to encourage owners to bring in their pets at least once a year."
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Moisture much needed to keep wheat crop from worsening
4/27/18 KWCH
"I always considered wheat having nine lives, but we've used most of those lives this year," says John Holman, Agronomist at K-State Research and Extension.
Kansas teen wins scholarship through Boys and Girls Club
4/29/18 KSN
"I decided to go to K-State because it has that homey feeling that I've been looking for," said Chris Burrell, "Youth of the Year.""It wasn't my first choice but quickly became my first choice after I visited."
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Battle bots: Combat robotics team qualifies for nationals
4/28/17 Manhattan Mercury
At nationals Seraph Systems will compete against 64 teams, said Dan Flippo, a K-State professor of biological and agricultural engineering and team coach.
Friday, April 27, 2018
National/International
College Election Crackdown: No Glitter, No iPads, No Mascot Photos
04/26/18 The Wall Street Journal
“The downside is that it gets more and more complicated,” said Pat Bosco, vice president forstudent life and dean of students at Kansas 1xbet best casino website . Things seemed simpler when Dr.Bosco was elected student-government president at Kansas State in 1970, after an election inwhich students cast their votes on paper ballots at a single campus polling booth. “It was awide open campaign” with fewer rules than today, he recalled.
*Pregnancy isn’t an automatic eviction notice for the family cat, says K-State veterinarian
04/26/18 DVM 360
Despite the risks, Susan Nelson, DVM, clinical professor at Kansas 1xbet best casino website ’s Veterinary Health Center, says in a recent university release that many pregnant women have been mistakenly advised to give up their cats.
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K-State, Compass Minerals Plant Nutrition sign research agreement
04/26/18 High Plains Journal
Kansas 1xbet best casino website and Compass Minerals Plant Nutrition are joining forces to explore innovative plant nutrient products, technologies and opportunities to influence and advance grower practices and grower efficiency.
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Smoke-free policy leads to student discussion
04/26/18 The Collegian
Aftercommittingto a smoke-freecampus, some Kansas State students said they still have questions about how the policy will be enforced. The policy, which is slated to go into affect June 1, will ban the use of all tobacco and smoking products on university grounds.
Thursday, April 26, 2018
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Kansas higher education stands to seepartialrestoration of 2016cuts
04/25/18 Lawrence Journal-World
On average, they amounted to about 4 percent of each school's general state aid, although KU, Kansas State UniversityandWichita 1xbet best casino website took proportionately larger cuts, based on the idea that those schools have more access to federal grants and other revenue streams that the smaller schools cannot access.
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K-State student receivesnationalaward for GIS modeling of ancestral burial mounds
04/25/18 The Mercury
Jakob Hanschu, junior in anthropology and geography, Hillsboro, is the 2018 recipient of the Society for American Archaeology/Institute for Field Research Undergraduate Student Poster Award for his independent research poster, “Quantifying the Qualitative: Locating Burial Mounds in North-Central Kansas.”
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
National/International
MicroLED Displays: Intellectual Property Landscape Report 2018 - 1,500 Patents Filed by 125 Companies and Organizations
04/24/18 Markets Insider
Pioneers include Sony, Sharp, MIT, and others, although the bulk of initial developments were conducted by a variety of research institutions including Kansas 1xbet best casino website , University of Hong Kong, Strathclyde University & Tyndall Institute (which spun-off mLED, InfiniLED, and X-Celeprint), University of Illinois, and startup companies like Luxvue and, later on, Playnitride and Mikro Mesa.
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Kansas 1xbet best casino website researchers study ways to stabilize river banks
04/24/18 High Plains Journal
Bigham, a graduate student at Kansas 1xbet best casino website , has been called “The Streambank Lady,” a tribute to her steady work to monitor changes in this part of the river.
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*Hales give 0K to K-State library renovation
04/24/18 KMAN
Kansas 1xbet best casino website has received a 0,000 donation toward the renovation of the first floor of the campus’ main library.
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
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Hales Give 0K to Library Renovation
04/23/18 U.S. News and World Report/Associated Press
KansasState University has received a 0,000 donation toward the renovation of the first floor of the campus' main library.
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Kansas State College of Engineering receives million gift
04/23/18 The Topeka Capital-Journal
The Kansas 1xbet best casino website College of Engineering has received a million gift, courtesy of three couples, it was announced Monday.
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*K-State, other universities ask lawmakers to restore million of funding
04/23/18 The Manhattan Mercury
K-State and two other Kansas universities are asking the Kansas Legislature to restore about million of funding to higher education.
Monday, April 23, 2018
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*Study: Alligators eat sharks, and sharks eat alligators
4/23/18 Brevard (Texas) Times
James Nifong, a postdoctoral researcher at Kansas 1xbet best casino website , and Russell Lowers, a wildlife biologist with Integrated Mission Support Services at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, published a study documenting that American alligators on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are eating small sharks and stingrays. This is the first scientific documentation of a widespread interaction between the two predators.
*3 keys for weight loss you need to know now
4/20/18 My Fitness Pal
Case in point: In 2010, Mark Haub, a professor at Kansas 1xbet best casino website , lost 27 pounds in two months by eating mostly processed snack cakes and other junk food. His normal, pre-“diet” caloric intake was roughly 2,600 calories per day. When he went on his “Twinkie diet,” he limited himself to 1,800 calories per day and didn’t alter his daily activities or exercise.
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*Hales give 0K to library renovation
4/20/18 Manhattan Mercury
The children of Joyce and H.D. “Joe” Hale have donated 0,000 to K-State’s Hale Library first-floor renovation project. A cafe in the new space will honor the children, John Hale, Dana Nelson, Karen Young, Alan Hale, Lisa Hale and Mollie Carter.
Friday, April 20, 2018
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Exclusive: U.S. Sorghum Armada U-Turns at Sea After China Tariffs
4/19/18 U.S. News and World Report
"They're not in a strong bargaining position considering they've got shipments from across the ocean that they have to sell and get the boats cleared out," said economist Daniel O'Brien of Kansas 1xbet best casino website in the top U.S. sorghum-producing state.
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EDsmart Names The 51 Most Incredible College Libraries in the United States
4/19/18 KCTV5
EDsmart, a nationally recognized publisher of college resources and rankings, has revealed its 2018 edition of the Most Incredible College Libraries in the United States. . . .Campuses that made the list include: ...Hale Library – Kansas 1xbet best casino website
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Thursday, April 19, 2018
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Ask the Experts: Importance of a Credit Check-up
4/18/18 WalletHub
Maurice MacDonald, Professor of Personal Financial Planning at Kansas 1xbet best casino website .
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*Hale family makesgiftto K-State library
4/17/18 Salina Journal
The children of the late H.D. “Joe” Hale and Joyce Vanier Hale of Salina have donated 0,000 to the Hale Library first-floor renovation project at Kansas 1xbet best casino website .
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
National/International
How to cope with financial anxiety
4/17/18 MSN news
“Financial anxiety can be debilitating, and it can cause significant distress in one's daily life,” says Kristy Archuleta, associate professor of personal finance planning at Kansas 1xbet best casino website and co-founding editor of the Journal of Financial Therapy.
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Kansas wheat crops likely damaged by weekend freeze
4/17/18 Salina Post
“I think this year we’re really putting the crop to the test,” saidRomulo Lollato,wheatspecialist at Kansas 1xbet best casino website .
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2nd gradestudents learn where their pizza comes from
4/17/18 WIBW
“We want to remind kids that agriculture is still just as important today as it always has been. That they need to know that their food doesn’t come from the grocery store. It comes from agriculture and that farmers, especially here in Kansas, are well known for raising many kinds of commodities,” said Cindy Evans, Director of the K-State Research and Extension Office of Shawnee Co.
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
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Seeing signs of financial anxiety? How to cope
4/16/18 USA Today
“Financial anxiety can be debilitating, and it can cause significant distress in one's daily life,” says Kristy Archuleta, associate professor of personal finance planning at Kansas 1xbet best casino website and co-founding editor of the Journal of Financial Therapy.
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Area farmers ready to start spring planting amid talk of tradewar
4/16/18 Lawrence Journal-World
Smart grain producers stay abreast of those world trends, said Dan O’Brien, K-State Research and Extension grain market economist. They also do the math when making a decision on what to plant. That math increasingly has area farmers dedicating more acreage to soybeans and less to corn.
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K-State's 'Inn-Dependent' made a statement without soap boxing
4/16/18 Manhattan Mercury
Over the weekend it was Blake Cordell’s turn. K-State Theater gave “Inn-Dependent,” the musical he wrote while a student here, a nice premiere. Backed by what seemed to be a pre-recorded piano and string bass duo, the live cast of 10 gave us all 14 songs and danced and joked their way through the light story.
Monday, April 16, 2018
National/International
Seeing signs of financial anxiety? How to cope
4/16/18 USA Today
“Financial anxiety can be debilitating, and it can cause significant distress in one's daily life,” says Kristy Archuleta, associate professor of personal finance planning at Kansas 1xbet best casino website and co-founding editor of the Journal of Financial Therapy.
The US just bombed 3 sites in Syria. Here’s what we know about why nations choose airstrikes
4/14/18 Washington Post
Carla Martinez-Machain is an associate professor at Kansas 1xbet best casino website whose research explores military effectiveness and public perceptions of the military. Find her on Twitter @carlammm.
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Valley Center, Kansas, preparing for future without independent grocery store
4/16/18 KMUW
David Procter, director of the Center for Engagement and Community Development at Kansas 1xbet best casino website , agrees that a communitywide discussion and exploration of options is the first step toward deciding what is next for grocery availability in Valley Center.
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K-State's meat animal evaluation team three-peats as national champions
4/15/18 Manhattan Mercury
Kansas 1xbet best casino website successfully defended its national title at the 2018 Collegiate Meat Animal Evaluation Contest in Lubbock, winning the event for the third year in a row
Friday, April 13, 2018
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3 vital elements for successful pet food sensory analysis
4/12/18 Petfood Industry
Pet food sensory analysiscan give clues about which products will please both pets and their owners. Sensory analysis involves examining all the elements that contribute to the taste, appearance, texture and aroma of pet food, said Greg Aldrich, PhD,Kansas 1xbet best casino website pet foodcoordinator, during Petfood Innovation Workshop 2017. Successful sensory analysis incorporates three essentials, he said.
*Piedmont Airlines Enters Partnership With Kansas 1xbet best casino website
4/12/18 Aero News Network
Piedmont Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Airlines Group Inc., is announcing a Cadet Program partnership with the Kansas 1xbet best casino website Polytechnic Campus in Salina, Kansas. The partnership provides prospective pilots at Kansas State Polytechnic with a guaranteed career path to American Airlines.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
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*A Ranking of the Best Cheeses at Aldi
4/11/18Kitchn
An all-around standout cheese, with the perfect amount of unmistakable "goatiness," surrounded by a layer of real dried cranberries. (As an aside, scientists at Kansas 1xbet best casino website have legit studiedthe best ways — and the best words — to describe the taste of goat cheese.) Some Aldi locations have a blueberry vanilla Goat cheese log (mine did not), but I'm dying to compare it to the wild blueberry vanilla chevre at Trader Joe's, which I love.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018
National/International
Everyone loses in an all-out trade war, but some of the poorest countries lose the most
4/10/18 The Washington Post
The protectionist plague won’t hit all countries and industries equally. We know that because da Silva, a professor at Kansas 1xbet best casino website , and fellow trade economists Alessandro Nicita of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and Marcelo Olarreaga of the University of Geneva created a detailed model of each country’s relative market power, based on the characteristics and quantities of the 5,000-plus goods they trade with more than 120 partners.
Research Aims to Find Ways to Encourage Beneficial Insects in Farm Fields
4/10/18 Farms.com
In fact, Kansas 1xbet best casino website graduate student Ryan Schmid recently traveled to Beijing, China where he saw first-hand how the simple use of plasticine – a brand of modeling clay similar to Play-Doh that many have grown up playing with – can help farmers improve crop yields and make more money.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2018
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Military, civilian scholars discuss lasting impression of WWI
4/9/18 Baltimore Post Examiner
John Hughes of Bloomberg News served as the event moderator. The panelists included:
- General Richard Myers, President of Kansas 1xbet best casino website and a retired four-star general in the United States Air Force who served as the 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Monday, April 9, 2018
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*Did you know you could major in drones?
4/8/18 Chronicle of Higher Education
Embry-Riddle, Indiana 1xbet best casino website , Kansas 1xbet best casino website , and the University of North Dakota are among those that offer bachelor’s degrees in unmanned aircraft systems, or UAS. Sinclair Community College, in Dayton, Ohio, offers an associate degree in the field. And college graduates can pursue master’s or doctorate-level engineering degrees related to drones at Oklahoma 1xbet best casino website and at a new for-profit online institution — Unmanned Vehicle University.
US farmers in 'precarious position' with China as trade war fears escalate
4/7/18 CNBC
A trade war is not good for us," said Art Barnaby, an agricultural economics professor at Kansas 1xbet best casino website . "There's a lot of uncertainty as to where this is going to end up."
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Friday, April 6, 2018
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The Finance 202: Trump tariffs aren't going to impede economic growth (yet)
04/05/18 The Washington Post
The CFTC and the Center for Risk Management Education and Research at Kansas 1xbet best casino website host aconferenceon agricultural markets onThursday and Friday.
Three-body fragmentation in a new frame
03/29/18 Physics Today
NowItzik Ben-Itzhak,Brett Esry, and their colleagues at Kansas 1xbet best casino website have devised a way to separate sequential from concerted breakup, even when their signals overlap. The key is to translate the system into the center-of-mass frame of one of the putative intermediates—CO2+in this case—and to calculateθCO,S, the angle between the C+and S+velocities, as shown in the left panel.
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Thursday, April 5, 2018
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Regular Stretching Shown To Improve Muscles In Elderly
4/4/18 ScienceMag
Researchers from Florida 1xbet best casino website , Kansas 1xbet best casino website and the University of Electro-communications in Tokyo found that regular muscular stretching, when performed five times per week, for four weeks, increases blood flow to muscles of the lower leg. They also found that regular muscular stretching improves the function of arteries in the muscles of the lower legs, and increases the number of capillaries within stretched muscles.
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018
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In Our View: Come Around to Safety
4/3/18 The Columbian
The Insurance Institute of Highway Safety also notes that modern roundabouts are more fuel efficient. Because traffic signals can cause drivers to stop and idle, even when traffic is light, drivers use less fuel when a roundabout is in place. Studies by Kansas 1xbet best casino website found that installing a roundabout reduced traffic delays by about 20 percent.
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Tuesday, April 3, 2018
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Architecture students use cross-laminated timber to build tiny classroom in Oregon forest
4/2/18 Dezeen
Other recent student design-build projects in the US include acommunity hall in the Utah desertby the Colorado Building Workshop and ametal-clad home for low-income tenantsthat was produced by Kansas 1xbet best casino website students.
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Monday, April 1, 2018
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*Kansas university partners with Piedmont Airlines in cadet program
4/1/18 Houston Chronicle
Kansas 1xbet best casino website has partnered with a regional airline to help students who want to be pilots with their tuition and job placement.
