2019 Student Achievements
• A true dynasty: For 17th time in last 21 years, K-State Crops Team earns national championship.
• All that's golden: Communication sciences and disorders graduate student receives award from professional organization for research project.
• Adding up to victory: Personal financial planning faculty, students earn honors from professional organization.
• Scholar U: Clara Wicoff becomes K-State's 15th Marshall scholar. Wicoff also is a 2019 Truman scholar.
• Meaty honor: K-State meat judging team named national runner-up.
• Model paper: K-State Model United Nations team wins position paper honor at 30th annual American Model UN Conference.
• Food systems scholar: Food science doctoral student receives prestigious scholarship from Food Marketing Institute.
• Not horsing around: Horse judging team captures two world titles.
• Twice as nice: For second year in a row, five K-State grad students earn national transportation fellowship, including two civil engineering students as repeat winners and three APDesign students.
• Twice as nice: Civil engineering students earn Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship for second year in a row.
• Write stuff: Royal Purple top yearbook, while Royal Purple, Collegian and Manhappin' Magazine staffers earn national honors.
• Landing a high finish: Polytechnic flight team scores spot in national championship.
• Excellence on the horizon: Interior design student receives inaugural Horizon Award from the International Interior Design Association Mid-America Chapter.
• Stellar sellers: Sales team earns top honors at Northeast Intercollegiate Sales Competition.
• Plane success: Aviation maintenance students earn honors in regional skills competition.
• Finance finesse: Personal Financial Planning team takes second in nation, while doctoral students, professor earn top research paper awar• Sealing the deal: Sales Team wins Tri-State Challenge.
• Winning down under: Crops Team member top individual, while team takes second in Australian competition.
• Hospitality rewarded: 10 K-State Olathe hospitality management students receive special hospitality association scholarships.
• Backing their brand: Six advertising students earn scholarships from American Advertising Federation of Kansas City.
• Learning excellence: APDesign studio, students winners of the Journal of the American Institutes of Architects' Studio Prize.
• National placers: Two apparel and textiles students earn honors at Alpaca Association Owners' student competition.
• Select honor: K-State's chapter of Public Relations Student Society of America one of five selected for Aspire Higher: Future Fellows Mentoring Program.
• Design standout: Interior architecture & product design student Kanoa San Miguel winner of $30,000 scholarship from the Angelo Donghia Foundation for his design work.
• International scholars: Two K-State students earn Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship for educational pursuits abroad.
• Top of the class: Football Wildcats lead nation in number of player graduates.
• Engineering scholarly excellence: Senior in civil engineering receives 2019 American Institute of Steel Construction Education Foundation Scholarship.
• Research rewarded: Third-year veterinary student Ally Fitzgerald receives Graduate Student Research Award from the American Academy of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
• Outstanding in the field: K-State teams score win, high finishes at the North American Weed Science Collegiate Competition.
• Worth talking about: K-State chapter of the Speech-Language-Hearing Association earns bronze chapter honors from National Speech-Language-Hearing Association Executive Council.
• Award-winning fraternity, leader: Kappa Alpha Psi chapter and officer earn national honors.
• Growing success: Horticulture and natural resources faculty and students earn multiple honors from American Society for Horticultural Science.
• Three K-State Olathe students receive Johnson County Education Research Triangle scholarships.
• Online education alliance awards scholarship to K-State student.
• Outstanding students: Five K-State students accepted to Scholars in Rural Health program.
• Splash champs: Fountain Wars Team wins international competition, continues winning ways.
• Rising star: Personal financial planning doctoral student on InvestmentNews' 40 under 40 list.
• Building scholar: Architectural engineering student Owen Lutz earns $5,000 scholarship from ASHRAE.
• Tops in research: K-Staters sweep top spots at Society of Animal Science undergraduate research competition.
• Research excellence: Veterinary student among inaugural winners of new veterinary research excellence fellowship.
• Making the case: College of Business Administration student part of team winning best report honors in the 2019 X-Culture Competition.
• Distinguished scholar: New K-State graduate receives Phi Kappa Phi graduate fellowship.
• National scholarship winner: Civil engineering student receives elite scholarship from American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Select honor: Veterinary student receives $5,000 scholarship from national livestock groups.
• Certifying excellence: 23 construction science and management students achieve Tilt-Up concrete technician certification.
• National recognition: New A.Q. Miller School graduate earns National Gold Key Award from the Public Relations Student Society of America.
• Drawing attention: Art student takes part in national "Her Flag" project.
• Prime choices: Two College of Agriculture students earn Beef Improvement Federation scholarships.
• Prized papers: Mechanical and nuclear engineering graduate students earn best paper honors from American Nuclear Society.
• National scholarship: Veterinary student recipient of American Kennel Society scholarship.
• A triple treat: Three K-Staters named Goldwater scholars.
• Among the best: National interfraternity council recognizes K-State fraternity, fraternity member and Greek life director for excellence.
• State standouts: Kansas Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics honors several K-Staters with awards, scholarships.
• Select scholar: Sophomore in entrepreneurship is named one of 10 U.S. Cargill Global Scholars.
• Language leaders: K-State students win grand prize, second place in Japanese Language Speech Contest.
• Award-winning research: English department students, faculty earn honors from national association for research essays.
• Standouts: Three students earn competitive American Advertising Federation Foundation Scholarship.
• National role model: K-State tabbed as leader in first-generation student success programming.
• World scholars: Three K-Staters earn Fulbright awards.
• Tops in robots: K-State's Mercury Remote Rover Squad wins international competition, while Combat Robotics Squad takes first at regionals, qualifies for nationals.
• Harvesting success: Crops Team wins national crops and precision agriculture contests.
• Honorable recognitions: Two K-State students earn honorable mention for Udall scholarship, while three graduate students receive honorable mention for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
• A good supply: Business students earn scholarships from regional professional supply chain management council.
• Global Cat: K-State junior awarded Gilman scholarship for international study.
• Diverse leaders: Four K-Staters selected as 2019 National Conference for Race and Ethnicity student scholars.
• Bridge to success: Steel Bridge Team takes second in regional competition, qualifies for nationals.
• A high honor: K-State's Kappa Alpha Psi chapter named best in Midwest.
• Future leader: Master of Public Administration student earns scholarship from Kansas Association of City/County Management.
• Chapter of distinction: Student branch of electrical and electronics engineering society named among best new chapters.
• Veterinary student earns Simmons business aptitude scholarship.
• Road to victory: Civil engineering doctoral students sweep top paper competition offered by regional transportation society.
• Top scholar: Clara Wicoff becomes K-State's 35th Truman Scholarship recipient.
• Prestigious fellowship winner: New physics doctoral graduate earns PROBIST Postdoctoral Fellowship.
• International reputation for success: Architectural engineering and construction science team again places highly in international competition.
• Best on campus, in state: Po-Yu "Tony" Lai earns top student worker honors from K-State, state of Kansas.
• National kinesiology kudos: Four kinesiology students earn recognition from American Kinesiology Association.
• Journalism standout: Collegian multimedia editor Olivia Bergmeier finalist for 2019 Great Plains Journalism awards.
• Write stuff: Journalism students earn more than 30 awards in state competition.
• Positive reaction: ChemE Car Team wins regional competition.
• Sociology faculty, students earn national awards from Rural Sociological Society.
• Concrete success: Civil engineering doctoral student earns third place in research poster competition at concrete institute conference.
• Three-minute success: Public health master's student wins regional Three-Minute Thesis competition.
• Case for excellence: K-State team takes third in Big 12 MBA Case Competition.
• They got game: K-State team takes second in Kansas Society of Human Resource Management's HR Games.
• Prestigious scholarship: Two students earn the Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State.
• Building their future: Five construction science and management students earn national scholarships from an Associated General Contractors foundation.
• Poster power: Senior in animal sciences and industry earns first-place poster award at regional meeting of the American Society of Animal Science and American Dairy Science Associat
• Radio raves: Ten KSDB students earn honors in Kansas Association of Broadcasters competition.
• Twice as nice: Veterinary medicine student earns national poultry scholarship for second year in a row.
• Engineering success: Industrial engineering student takes first place for paper at regional conference.
• Leading the way: Two K-State graduate students earn honors at Capitol Graduate Research Summit.
• Always the best: K-State's Black Student Union named tops in Big 12 for 11th time in last 14 years.
• Dialed in for success: Student radio station KSDB-FM earns three national honors.
• NEXT for success: Interior architecture & product design student wins Steelcase's NEXT competition.
• Successful landing: Polytechnic airport management student earns prestigious scholarship from Airports Council International.
• 'Key' honors: K-State's Blue Key recognized with three national chapter awards.
• Building successful futures: Architectural engineering students earn prestigious national, regional scholarships.
• Winning with words: Debate team qualifies for national tournament.
• Powerful impact: Kinesiology doctoral student receives National Strength and Conditioning Association scholarship.
• Pitch perfect: K-State Sales Team wins invitational sales competition.
• Veterinary scholars: Four veterinary students recipients of the Auxiliary to the AVMA Endowed Scholarship, while fifth veterinary student earns national veterinary leadership award.
• Outstanding range: Society for Range Management names biology doctoral student as outstanding young professional career award winner and biology master's student as top poster presenter.
• Editorial assist: Landscape architecture and regional & community planning professor and students contribute to chapter in new book.
• Arguing for success: Debate team master's student in public health a semifinalist in Spanish national tournament.
• Bioscience excellence: Eight K-State students earn honors for research presentations at K-INBRE symposium.
• Fashion forward: Apparel design and production student to show designs at Kansas City Fashion Week.
• Oh, the places they will go: Four K-State students recipients of the congressionally funded Gilman Scholarship for education abroad.
• Excellence by design: Architecture student wins international design competition.
• Better than the pros: Journalism students top professionals in Kansas Press Association contest.
• Mic drop: KSDB-FM's program director wins scholarship from the Broadcast Education Association.
• Cybersecurity surety: Computer science graduate students earn honor from Android Security Awards Program
• Conference kudos: Hospitality management graduate student earns best paper honors.
