Kansas
State University achievements
2004
Students
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Three K-State students were selected as winners of up to $5,000
Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships. The students were
among 159 winners selected from 859 applications, said James Hohenbary,
scholar adviser. Winners include Kelley Hughes, Hutchinson, junior
in industrial engineering, who will study in the Czech Republic,
and Aaron Franklin, Iola, senior in psychology, who will study
in Mexico. A third K-State winner requested no publicity. The
Gilman International Scholarship Program offers a competition
for awards for undergraduate study abroad and was established
by the International Academic Opportunity Act of 2000.
Sponsored
by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural
Affairs, this congressionally funded program is administered by
the Institute of International Education through its Southern
Regional Center in Houston, Texas. December 2004* Meredith Martin,
junior in mechanical engineering at K-State, received second place
in the Young Engineers Paper Contest sponsored by the Fluids Engineering
Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering. Martin,
of Hanover, was one of five finalists to present her paper at
the 2004 American Society of Mechanical Engineers International
Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Nov. 13-19 in Anaheim,
Calif. As a top three finalist, Martin received a cash award.
Her final paper was also published in conference proceedings.
December 2004
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K-State's student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers won the 2003-2004 Chapter of the Year award at group's
annual meeting Nov. 7. K-State also placed sixth in the Sixth
Annual Chem-E-Car Competition. Teams from 31 universities competed
in the event The competition challenges chemical engineering students
to test their classroom knowledge by building shoebox-sized cars
powered by controlled chemical reactions. The students from K-State's
team include Tyler Selbe, senior in chemical engineering, Kansas
City, Kan.; Tyler McGown, senior in chemical engineering, Tonganoxie;
and Ashley Robertson, senior in chemical engineering and pre med,
Wichita. Gina Mercurio, senior in chemical engineering, Salina,
was the 10th consecutive member of K-State's student chapter to
receive the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Othmer National
Scholarship. Walter Walawender, professor of chemical engineering,
is the chapter adviser. November 2004
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Seven K-State entomology graduate students won awards at the 52nd
Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Nov. 14-17,
in Salt Lake City, Utah. The K-State students, who received first
and second-place awards for the Entomological Society of America
Presidential Prize, received the highest number of awards given
to a single institution in the United States. November 2004
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K-State chemical engineering students placed sixth in the Sixth
Annual Chem-E-Car Competition Nov. 7. Teams from 31 universities
around the country competed in the event at the American Institute
of Chemical Engineers annual meeting. The schools that made it
to this competition are those that placed best in regional Chem-E-Car
events. The competition challenges chemical engineering students
to test their classroom knowledge by building shoebox-sized cars
powered by controlled chemical reactions. The small cars must
transport a certain payload a specified distance -- this year's
students were challenged to transport 400 milliliters of water
75 feet. Students don't learn until 60 minutes before the competition
begins what the payload and distance will be. The college teams
then make critical calculations and adjustments needed. The students
from K-State's team include Tyler Selbe, senior in chemical engineering,
Kansas City, Kan.; Tyler McGown, senior in chemical engineering,
Tonganoxie; and Ashley Robertson, senior in chemical engineering
and pre med, Wichita. Walter Walawender, professor of chemical
engineering, is the chapter adviser. November 2004
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Debarchana Ghosh, K-State doctoral student in geography, won first
place in a student poster competition at the 27th Annual Applied
Geography Conference Oct. 20-24 in St. Louis, Mo. Ghosh received
software from the Environmental Systems Research Institute for
her first-place finish. The institute produces geography information
systems mapping software. The title of her poster was "How
the Electronic Mass Media Affects Knowledge and Awareness of HIV/AIDS
in Indian Women — A Multivariate Logistic Regression Analysis."
November 2004
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K-State's Crops Team took first place for the 10th straight year
at the Central Regional Collegiate Crops Contest, Oct. 22 in Stillwater,
Okla. The competition included 18 students from five universities
and community colleges. The competition included three parts:
identification -- the ability to identify 200 different plants
or seeds of crops or weeds; grain grading -- evaluating eight
samples of seven different grain crops according to Federal Grain
Inspection Service standards; and seed analysis -- determining
whether seed samples contained impurities and identifying each
contaminant. Team members include Barb Bremenkamp, senior in agronomy,
Colby, third overall. Bremenkamp was first in grain grading. Mike
Lanter, senior in agronomy, Everest, first overall. Lanter was
first in seed analysis. Jeffrey Schmidt, senior in agricultural
economics, Mount Hope, second overall. Schmidt received first
in identification. The team is coached by Gerry Posler, K-State
professor of agronomy. November 2004
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For the third consecutive year, a K-State University agronomy
student has won the prestigious Hank Beachell Future Leader Scholarship
awarded by the American Society of Agronomy, along with the American
Science Foundation. Jennifer Chestnut, senior in agronomy, Abilene,
will receive the award in November at the American Society of
Agronomy's national meeting. The purpose of the Hank Beachell
Future Leader Scholarship is to expand the agricultural knowledge
of undergraduate students participating in activities that enhance
their university studies. The scholarship was established in recognition
of Beachell's life-long commitment to advancing the knowledge
of agriculture through his work in rice breeding and development.
Only one scholarship is awarded each year. Kyle Cott, a May 2004
K-State graduate, won the award in 2003; May 2003 graduate Jesse
Poland was the 2002 recipient. September 2004
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K-State students won 13 percent of the Phi Kappa Phi study abroad
grants awarded this year -- five of 38 in the nation. The $1,000
awards are designed specifically to recognize and assist undergraduates
as they seek knowledge abroad. Winners, all studying abroad in
summer 2004, are Amanda York, Garden City, senior in secondary
education, studying in Grenada, Spain; Janie Hammerschmidt, Salina
junior in painting and art history, studying in Arbroath, Scotland;
Kristin Kiehnhoff, Wathena junior in modern language education,
studying in Grenada, Spain; Chelsea Mueller, Wichita senior in
psychology and family studies and human services, with a minor
in leadership studies, studying in Australia; and Christina McAllister,
Raytown, Mo., senior in architecture, studying in Castiglion Fiorentino,
Italy. June 2004
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K-State's Wendy Griswold has received the National Security Education
Program David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship. Griswold, a graduate
student in educational leadership with an emphasis in adult education,
Lawrence, is the first K-State student to be selected for the
fellowship. Griswold, who is also a project manager for the K-State
Center for Hazardous Substance Research, will receive $11,400.
The Boren fellowship enables U.S. graduate students to pursue
specialization in area and language study or to add an international
dimension to their education. Recipients are highly encouraged
to pursue studies in one of the geographic areas, languages or
fields of study identified by the program as critical to U.S.
national security. Griswold, whose interests lie in the Altai
Republic, an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, plans
to pursue a combination of domestic and overseas study and research.
She intends to complete graduate study, including Russian language
instruction, in the United States, and perform independent study
and research at Gorno-Altaisk State University with Tatiana Lukyanenko,
chair of the psychology department there. June 2004
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Two K-State students received the Clare Boothe Luce undergraduate
scholarship. Lisa Kitten, junior in mechanical engineering, Plains,
and Mindy Koehler, senior in physics, Longmont, Colo., will each
receive $18,000 per year for two years as they work toward their
academic goals. The Clare Boothe Luce scholarship was established
to encourage women to enter, study, graduate and teach in science,
mathematics and engineering. Selection for the scholarship was
based on the applicants' grade point average, honors and awards,
membership in honor and professional societies, leadership roles,
letters of recommendation, two essays submitted by the applicants
and an in-person interview. Applicants were required to have approximately
two years remaining in their academic program to be eligible.
May 2004
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A K-State student was awarded a 2004-05 National Security Education
Program Boren Undergraduate Scholarship. Seth Bridge, Buhler,
a junior in political science, history and international studies,
was among 181 winners from more than 860 applicants. These international
scholarships support and encourage students who plan to work in
areas of national security. This summer, Bridge will study in
a Russian Language immersion program in Irkutsk, Siberia, at the
School of Russian and Asian studies. Then in the fall, he will
travel to Moscow State University and study international relations
and Russian foreign policy at the Moscow State Institute of International
Relations. May 2004
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MelEesa D. Lorett, a spring 2004 Kansas State University graduate
in apparel and textiles from Scott City, won the $10,000 Perrier
Bubbling Under Design Award at the Gen Art Styles 2004 fashion
and awards show May 18. Gen Art is a non-profit organization dedicated
to showcasing emerging fashion designers, filmmakers, musicians
and visual artists. The Bubbling Under award is designed to recognize
an emerging fashion designer for excellence and originality in
design concepts inspired by a theme. This year's theme was "The
Elements: Water, Fire, Air and Earth." Gen Art received more
than 600 entries from 25 states and 28 foreign countries including
Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, England, Korea, Mexico, France, India
and Sweden in six competition categories. Lorett was among five
finalists who displayed their design concepts for celebrity fashion
judges to review and choose the grand prize winner. Lorett was
the only student finalist; all others were emerging designers
in the fashion industry working in New York under their own names.
May 2004
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Grass was the name of the game at the recent Scotts Seed Quiz
Bowl in San Diego, Calif., and K-State students claimed victory.
The students, all members of the K-State student chapter of the
Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, competed together
with other K-State supporters to win the quiz bowl and earn K-State
a $2,500 scholarship. The quiz bowl was held at the Golf Course
Superintendents Association of America International Golf Course
show. The association is a professional organization with more
than 20,000 members employed in the area of golf course management
and maintenance. The association is focused on serving its members,
advancing their profession and enhancing the game of golf. Contestants
in the bowl were quizzed on their knowledge of turfgrass biotechnology
and golf trivia. The scores were then tallied under a total university
score. April 2004
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Kansas State University's Brooklyn Lippelmann, a senior in political
science and international studies from Lyons, has become K-State's
27th Truman scholar. K-State is first in the nation among public
universities in producing Truman scholars - 27 and one alternate
- since 1977. The Truman Foundation reports that K-State is seventh
among all schools, public and private, behind private schools
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Duke and Brown. Among state
schools, K-State leads the University of Michigan, the U.S. Military
Academy, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the
University of Virginia. March 2004
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Ethan Baughman was selected to receive the $7,500 Barry M. Goldwater
Scholarship. The K-State junior in biology plans to eventually
earn a medical degree or a doctorate in biology. His career goal
is to conduct research to advance knowledge of human disease by
studying the biochemical pathways leading to lipid compositional
changes in tissues. Students who have at least a 3.0 grade point
average, major in science, math or engineering and plan a career
in research are eligible to apply. Baughman filled out an application
form consisting of biographical information, four mini-essays
and one 600-word essay explaining scientific research he has recently
completed or is currently conducting. K-State students have won
49 Goldwater Scholarships since the program began in 1989. K-State
is ranked first in the nation among state universities in the
number of Goldwater winners. Among all colleges and universities
in the nation, only Princeton, Harvard and Duke have produced
more Goldwater scholars. March 2004
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A K-State postdoctoral fellow in physics was awarded one of Australia's
top scientific awards. Michael Bromley won the Bragg Medal, awarded
by Australian Institute of Physics for the best Ph.D. thesis.
He attended Charles Darwin University in Australia. February 2004
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Four K-State students are winners of up to $5,000 Benjamin A.
Gilman International Scholarships. John Harder and Lee Rivers
are spring winners. (A third spring winner has requested no publicity.)
Harder, a senior in electrical and computer engineering, is studying
in Japan. Rivers, junior in kinesiology who plans to be a physical
therapist, is studying in Australia. Kit Strecker, senior in mass
communications, spent the fall semester studying in Greece. This
national, highly competitive scholarship is a congressionally
funded program offered through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural
Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and is administered by
the Institute of International Education. One purpose of the Gilman
Program is to encourage participation by students in a broad range
of fields of study, including those not traditionally represented
in study abroad. February 2004
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Lynn Schwarz, senior in animal sciences and industry with a minor
in agricultural economics at K-State, won a Rotary Ambassadorial
Scholarship. According to Rotary International, the purpose of
the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship is "to further international
understanding and friendly relations among people of different
countries." Since 1947, it has provided the necessary support
for more than 30,000 men and women from 100 different nations
to study abroad. Schwarz, Gower, Mo., was notified of the award
in fall 2003. Schwarz will use the scholarship for a yearlong
study abroad experience at Lincoln University in New Zealand where
she will be studying international agricultural policy and international
dairy marketing. February 2004
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