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Kansas State University achievements
2008 All-University
* K-State's solid reputation as a leader in animal health and food safety research is stronger than ever with the announcement by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of K-State as the site for the relocation of a federal animal health laboratory. The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility will be located adjacent to the K-State campus, bringing hundreds of animal health researchers with it. December 2008
* Michael Boland, a professor of agricultural economics at K-State, is a 2008 regional winner of an Excellence in College and University Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences Award. The award is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and recognizes a select group of college and university teachers who excel at teaching, make a positive impact on student learning, and influence other teachers by example. Two national winners of the honor were selected, while Boland was one of six regional winners. K-State has now had nine winners of the prestigious award, second only to the University of Illinois. Boland specializes in agribusiness management and teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in agribusiness strategy and an international agribusiness course in conjunction with a study tour. Boland's teaching includes expanding his student's global understanding through experiential learning experiences. He has taught or lectured in more than 30 countries across the world and has led five international agribusiness study tours in Central and South America and in Australia and New Zealand. December 2008
* Vincent M. Hofer, Franklin, is one of 32 winners nationally of a Rhodes scholarship. Hofer is K-State's eighth Rhodes winner since 1986. Rhodes Scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England, and may allow funding in some instances for four years. Hofer, a 2008 graduate in agribusiness, works for U.S. Senator Sam Brownback in Washington, D.C., as a legislative correspondent. Hofer will pursue Latin American studies and Development Studies at Oxford University. After completing graduate studies, Hofer plans to pursue a career in international development. At K-State, Hofer received the Anderson Award for Outstanding Leadership, and as chapter president, he was instrumental in leading the K-State National Agri-Marketing Association team to back-to-back wins in national competition. Other leadership offices he held at K-State include president and vice president of the Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Club, vice president of Blue Key Senior Honor Society, and the vice president and treasurer of the Ag Competition Team Council. Hofer was a recitation instructor for a class of 40 students in agricultural economics, named the Agricultural Economics Department Outstanding Senior of the Year, and a recipient of $28,000 in merit-based scholarships during his college years, including the leadership scholarship. November 2008
* M. Duane Nellis, K-State provost and senior vice president, was elected Nov. 10 as the new chair for the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges -- NASULGC -- Council on Academic Affairs. The election came at the association's 121st annual meeting in Chicago. The group is the primary public university association for land grant and other major public universities and the nation's oldest higher education association. The Council on Academic Affairs is the coordinating body for provosts/chief academic officers at the association's 218 institutions. Nellis has served on the council's executive committee for the past two years. November 2008
* Michael Wesch, assistant professor of anthropology, is the third K-State professor to win Outstanding Doctoral and Research Universities Professor of the Year from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, making K-State the university with the most national winners among institutions its size. K-State also has the 2007 national professor of the year winner, Christopher Sorensen, university distinguished professor of physics, and the 2007 Kansas professor of the year, Robert Littrell, university distinguished professor of music. November 2008
* K-State's geography program earned the top rank from the Web site PhDs.org. Of traits assigned to small and less expensive programs, K-State ranks No. 1, far ahead of schools like the University of California at Berkley, Boston University and Rutgers University. K-State also ranks No. 3 for the traits of small and prestigious programs, behind only Syracuse and Ohio State universities. November 2008
* A K-State master's student in public administration will serve the Kansas state government in 2009 through her selection as the Kansas Governor's Fellow. At the end of her year as the Governor's Fellow, Kristen Rottinghaus will have the option of joining the state government as a full-time employee. The Governor's Fellows Program began in 2004 and identifies, recruits and trains a small number of students with significant leadership potential for future leadership roles in Kansas state government. The program is funded by a grant from the Kansas Health Foundation. November 2008
* Molly Kuhlman, senior in bakery science and management, Ness City, is a 2008 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. She received a $24,000 scholarship from Rotary International to study at University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland. She will study rural agricultural development and broaden the scope of her grain science knowledge. She was nominated for the scholarship by the Northeast Kansas Rotary District, which includes the Manhattan Rotary Club and the Manhattan Konza Rotary Club. November 2008
* K-State cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch is the winner of the national professor of the year award for research and doctoral universities from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He is the third K-State professor selected as a national winner in the research and doctoral university category. K-State is the only research/doctoral university to have had three national winners, and the only Kansas school to have even one national winner. Previous K-State national winners are Chris Sorensen, 2007, and Dean Zollman, 1996. Both are university distinguished professors of physics. K-State also has had seven state professors of the year, the most of any Kansas school. K-State holds the top spot in Kansas for the Carnegie/CASE awards, and is in the top 10 nationally among all universities, public and private. November 2008
* The Fretzel, a wholegrain soft pretzel filled with exotic fruits, was the recipe for success of two K-State graduate students in food science in a student product development competition at the international meeting of the American Association of Cereal Chemists. Katie Krusemark and Katie Martson won first place and $3,000 for their creation, the Fretzel, which they developed through a food production development course taught by K-State's Fadi Aramouni and Kelly Getty. November 2008
* K-State and the Kansas Health Foundation are collaborating to make Kansans healthier. A new venture, "One Health Kansas," will promote awareness and understanding of the interconnections among human, animal and environmental health. The Kansas State University Foundation accepted the award for the project, which is funded for three years for a total of $2,292,308. "One Health Kansas" will be directed by Lisa Freeman, associate vice president for innovation, K-State Olathe Innovation Campus, and Beth Montelone, associate dean, College of Arts and Sciences, and interim scientific director, Biosecurity Research Institute. October 2008
* K-State is the recipient of two Great Plains Region awards from the University Continuing Education Association. Lanita McGee, senior in the K-State distance education dietetics bachelor's degree program, Fairfield, Ohio, is the winner of the Outstanding Distance Education Student Award. VetByes, a series of asynchronous seminars covering many areas of veterinary medicine and training and offered through the College of Veterinary Medicine, received the Non-Credit Program Award. The awards were presented at the annual joint Great Plains-Mid-America Conference, Oct. 15-17, in Kansas City, Mo. October 2008
* For the second consecutive year, the K-State robotics team took first place in the Student Robotics Competition at the national convention of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. This year's competition, in July, was in Providence, R.I. Faculty adviser to the K-State team is Naiqian Zhang, professor of biological and agricultural engineering. The competition challenged the teams to build and program an automated robot or robots to harvest a simulated forest that included harvestable and un-harvestable trees. The robot or robots had five minutes to harvest the good trees only. The K-State team built two robots, a harvester and a dumper. K-State also won the first place at the inaugural Student Robotics Competition/Demonstration at the 2007 convention of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. October 2008
* Julia Keen, assistant professor of architectural engineering, is the first engineering faculty member in the nation to achieve the designation of High-Performance Building Design Professional. Keen passed a certification exam to earn the designation from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. The High-Performance Building Design Professional certification program identifies individuals who have demonstrated they have the necessary training and tools for the design of high-performance buildings that live up to their performance capability. High-performance building design looks at how building systems function most efficiently. October 2008
* Lafene Health Center has achieved accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care. Status as an accredited organization means Lafene has met nationally recognized standards for the provision of quality health care, as set by the accreditation association. The accreditation distinguishes Lafene from many other outpatient facilities by providing a safe work environment and the highest quality of care to patients, according to Lannie W. Zweimiller, director of Lafene Health Center. More than 3,600 ambulatory health care organizations across the United States are accredited by the association. Sept. 2008
* K-State students Jennifer Crainshaw, Olathe, and Samuel Brinton, Perry, Iowa, received 2008 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships, an honor worth up to $5,000 for study abroad. Crainshaw is studying in Ghana and Brinton in China. The Gilman asks winners to propose a service project to promote study abroad after they return. More than 1,200 scholarships of up to $5,000 will be awarded this academic year for U.S. citizen undergraduates to study abroad. K-State has been competitive among other universities for Gilman scholarships. With these two latest winners, 22 K-State students have won Gilman scholarships since the award's inception in 2002. August 2008
* K-State is among the best undergraduate institutions in the nation, according to the 2009 edition of "The Best 368 Colleges," published by Random House and The Princeton Review. Schools are selected for the book based on their outstanding academics, as well as evaluations of institutional data, feedback from students attending each school and campus visits. "The Best 368 Colleges" also ranks the top 20 schools in 60 categories. K-State is ranked among the top 20 in college athletics and in town and gown relations, with Manhattan called a "great college town" that is "just big enough" and that has "everything you need for college life." August 2008
* K-State was one of 16 universities nationwide recognized for bioenergy initiatives by the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Bio Energy Awareness Days in Washington, D.C., June 19-22. K-State won a Grand Challenge award for a vision paper, "Food, Feed, Energy and Ecosystem Services: A Role for American Agriculture." Co-authors are agronomy professors Charles W. Rice and Scott Staggenborg, and Richard Nelson, associate professor and head of the Kansas Industrial Extension Service. The Grand Challenge is the major award made during the event, and promotes the development of a vision that the winning universities will contribute in the emerging bio economy. June 2008
* Strong leadership skills and a demonstrated interest in free enterprise have earned K-State's Nick Gay a prestigious $10,000 scholarship from Students in Free Enterprise. Gay, senior in electrical engineering, Lenexa, received the Jules and Gwen Knapp Students in Free Enterprise Ambassador Scholarship at the organization's national exposition May 13-15 in Chicago. Along with the scholarship, Gay will receive training from Students in Free Enterprise USA. As the Knapp Students in Free Enterprise Ambassador, he also may be asked to represent the organization on various campuses and at events throughout the academic year. The purpose of the scholarship, the largest awarded by the organization, is to recognize the leadership, teamwork and communications skills developed in students who are members of Students in Free Enterprise. Gay is president of K-State's chapter of the organization. Members work in teams to create economic opportunities in their communities by organizing outreach projects that focus on market economics, entrepreneurship, personal financial success skills and business ethics. May 2008
* A K-State professor whose students' work has been viewed online by millions is a finalist for the Inspire Integrity Awards from the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Michael Wesch, assistant professor of anthropology, is one of 15 finalists for the awards, which recognize faculty who have had a significant impact on their students' lives and instilled a high degree of personal and academic integrity. Undergraduate members of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars nominate faculty members who inspire integrity through their classroom lectures, activities and curriculum. The nominees then write a brief essay on the concept of integrity and its meaning to them personally. Competition is conducted at a regional level, with three finalists from each of the society's five regions selected to advance to the national competition. Wesch was among the finalists from the society's region four and receives a $250 stipend for the regional honor. A national selection committee will choose the national winner and one runner-up in June. May 2008
* The National Biosafety and Biocontainment Training Program's first designated training facility in the nation has named K-State's BRI -- Biosecurity Research Institute -- the first National Biosafety and Biocontainment Training Program's first designated training facility in the nation designated training facility in the nation. The BRI, at K-State's Pat Roberts Hall, is the only biosafety level-3 biocontainment research and training facility in the U.S. that can accommodate high-consequence pathogen research on food animals, food crops and food processing under one roof, which allows for a more comprehensive research approach. The National Biosafety and Biocontainment Training Program was established in 2004 and aims to provide the latest in professional education to those who operate, maintain and work in biocontainment laboratories. May 2008
* Two K-State graduate students in agricultural economics were selected to participate in the 2008 Copenhagen Consensus Center Youth Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark, May 25-30. Koichi Yamaura, Hidaka, Japan, was selected to represent the country of Japan and Michael Burns, Jetmore, was selected as one of two students to represent the United States. Eighty students from 37 countries were selected to participate in the conference. The Youth Forum represents more than 70 percent of the world's inhabitants. The overall objective of the Youth Forum is to listen to a group of young future decision makers from around the world and having them voice what solutions they believe should be given. The vision of the Youth Forum is to contribute to an open, public debate on how to prioritize solutions to 10 of the most pressing challenges. May 2008
* K-State's A. Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications was re-accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. The Council met in Arlington, Va., May 2 and voted unanimously in favor of re-accreditation. The school successfully passed all nine of the council's standards including curriculum, diversity, research and student services. The council accredits 110 schools of journalism across the country. Eighteen programs were evaluated this year, and only five of those programs, including the Miller School, were found in complete compliance. The team listed a number of strengths of the program including internships, satisfaction and loyalty of students, quality of instruction, significant research production and commitment to scholastic journalism. May 2008
* Michael Herman, associate professor in the Division of Biology at K-State, will head to the Netherlands for the fall 2008 semester to serve as a J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholar. Fulbright Program scholars, sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, are chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential. While in the Netherlands, Herman will be collaborating with several scientists throughout the country to further his research and knowledge in ecological genomics and quantitative genetics. April 2008
* K-State's Jessy Ohl, senior in political science from Denison, Iowa, continued his winning ways by capturing the National Forensic Association national individual sweepstakes championship April 18-21 at Tennessee State University in Nashville. This school year Ohl has won six titles at national forensics competitions, giving him seven national titles during his junior and senior years at K-State.
K-State President Jon Wefald said, "Academics are priority No. 1 through five at K-State. We have a commitment to excellence, which Jessy Ohl and the forensics team have embraced. If somebody had a football season like Jessy just had in forensics, he would be a unanimous Heisman Award winner. Jessy is definitely an academic champion of the first magnitude."
K-State's forensics team placed fifth in the nation among 90 schools, competing with just five students. The team also placed first in the nation in the President's II Division, a sweepstakes division for schools with smaller entries. An average 200 students competed in each event. April 2008
* K-State's Elizabeth Voigt, senior in mechanical engineering, McPherson, won a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Germany. Voigt will attend Virginia Tech and work on a master's degree in mechanical engineering. Thanks to a dual degree program between Virginia Tech and the Technical University of Darmstadt in Darmstadt, Germany, she will be able to spend one year at each university and earn a master's degree from both schools. Voigt said she then plans to work toward her doctorate degree at Virginia Tech. April 2008
* A K-State senior in political science has won four titles at a national forensics competition, making him only the second person in the event's 31-year history to do so. Jessy Ohl, Denison, Iowa, won the overall individual trophy at the American Forensics Association National Individual Events Tournament April 5-7 in Austin, Texas. He also placed first in extemporaneous speaking, informative speaking and communication analysis. As captain, Ohl led the K-State team to a fourth-place finish overall, out of 90 teams that qualified for the country's most prestigious forensics competition. It was K-State's best finish in the tournament since 1998, when the team also placed fourth. April 2008
* One current and one recently graduated engineering student from Kansas State University have received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Three K-State seniors also received honorable mentions. The fellowship awards a $30,000 stipend and a $10,500 cost-of-education allowance per year for three years of education, totaling about $120,000 over three years for students pursuing research-based master's or doctoral degrees in an engineering or science discipline. Winners are Emily A. Voigt, McPherson, senior in chemical engineering with a minor in German, and David Thompson, formerly of Burlingame, a 2006 K-State summa cum laude graduate in electrical engineering with an emphasis in biomedical engineering and minors in physics and Japanese. Thompson is currently a graduate student at the University of Michigan. In 2006 while at K-State, he received an honorable mention for the Graduate Research Fellowship he won this year. Named to receive honorable mention were seniors Amir Bahadori , Kansas City, Kan., majoring in mathematics and mechanical engineering; Amy Twite, Olathe, majoring in biochemistry, microbiology and chemistry; Lydia (Roberts) Barrigan, Pomona, senior in chemistry and biochemistry with a minor in biology. All plan to graduate from K-State in May. April 2008
* K-State students Iris Wilson, Manhattan, and Nicholas Long, Topeka, are among the 80 students nationwide who are receiving $5,000 Morris K. Udall Scholarships. The Udall is a congressional scholarship that honors the former Arizona congressman for his legacy of public service. Scholarship recipients must be seeking either a career related to the environment or be a Native American or a Native Alaskan seeking a career in health care or tribal policy K-State is now third among state universities with 20 winners since the competition began in 1996. Wilson is a junior in geography and natural resources and environmental sciences, and Long is a senior in architectural engineering. According to the Udall Foundation, this year was the most competitive yet for the Udall scholarship, with more than 500 scholarship applications reviewed. Since 1986, K-State students have won 124 nationally competitive scholarships -- the Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater and Udall -- more than any other public university in the nation. April 2008
* Three K-State students are recipients of 2008 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, while a fourth student has been recognized as an honorable mention for the award. The winners are Michelle Higgins, Manhattan; William Carlson, Overland Park; and Scott McCall, Parker Colo. Samuel Fahrenholtz, Tribune, received honorable mention honors. The three K-State students are among 321 students from across the nation to receive the Goldwater Scholarship this year, which are awarded for academic merit. The scholarships are worth up to $7,500 annually for a student's final one or two years of undergraduate studies. This year's recipients were selected from a field of 1,035 mathematics, science and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide. With three Goldwater recipients this year, K-State students have now won 63 Goldwater Scholarships. K-State remains first in the nation among state universities in Goldwater Scholarship winners. Among all universities, K-State is tied for third place with Duke. Princeton has 68 and Harvard has 67 Goldwater scholars. All three of K-State's newest Goldwater scholars plan careers in research. March 2008
* K-State's Panhellenic Council has been recognized as the top Greek sorority council, while K-State's Interfraternity Council has been recognized as the runner-up for the top Greek fraternity council award. Both recognitions came at the Mid-American Greek Council Association conference in Chicago, Feb. 21-24. K-State's Panhellenic Council was named the winner of the 2007 Sutherland Award for Division III. K-State's Interfraternity Council was named runner-up for the 2007 Jellison Award for Division IV. It is the seventh time in the last 12 years the K-State Panhellenic Council, which represents the university's 11 Greek sororities, has received the Sutherland Award, the top award for a Greek sorority council. Division III includes colleges in the U.S. with nine to 12 Greek sorority chapters. The award recognizes the K-State Panhellenic Council for excellence in academic achievement, council management, leadership and educational development, membership recruitment, philanthropy and community service, public relations, risk reduction and management, and self-governance and judicial affairs. Interfraternity Council was recognized as the runner-up for the Jellison Division IV Award. The award is the top award a Greek council can receive. Division IV consists of all colleges in the United States with 24 or more Greek chapters. The K-State Interfraternity Council, which represents the university's 25 Greek fraternities, was recognized for excellence in academic achievement, council management, membership recruitment, philanthropy and community service, public relations, and self-governance and judicial affairs. March 2008
* The Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Foundation and Koch Industries Inc. have announced donations totaling $400,000 to Kansas State University to increase enrollment of multicultural students and help them succeed in college. The grants will support Project IMPACT to provide recruiting and mentoring programs, scholarships and a diversity faculty fellowship in the K-State department of accounting. The Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Foundation's contribution of $220,000 will fund a College for a Day program at K-State for high school and community college students. Koch Industries will donate $180,000 for programming that focuses on student scholarships, mentoring and retention. February 2008
* K-State students Kathryn Glanville, Oskaloosa , Mark McCreary, Wichita, and Ruth Ruggles, Winfield, have each received a 2008 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, an honor worth up to $5,000 for study abroad. More than 1,100 students nationwide applied for as many as 400 scholarships. The scholarship is part of a congressionally funded program offered through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. Twenty K-State students have now won Gilman scholarships since the award's inception in 2002. February 2008
* K-State has been recognized as one of the top 30 colleges or universities in the nation for military students by Military Advanced Education magazine. The magazine's first review of top colleges and universities for service members, released in late 2007, recognizes institutions that make significant contributions to military education and serve the needs of military students. K-State has provided educational opportunities specifically to the military and their families by working on post at Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth, on the Manhattan campus, through K-State at Salina, through 2+2 agreements with community colleges, and through distance education. In addition to providing a variety of degree and certificate programs for military members, K-State offers Servicemember Opportunity Colleges for the Army agreements for military students, which make it possible for them to complete 15 credit hours with K-State and earn the rest of an associate degree, or complete 30 credit hours and earn the rest of a bachelor's degree from anywhere in the world. K-State also offers online as well as face-to-face degree and certificate programs, including master's and Ph.D. securities programs with Fort Leavenworth. February 2008
* A $1.548 million investment from the Kansas Bioscience Authority and top-notch federal biosafety training both came to K-State's BRI -- Biosecurity Research Institute -- in spring 2008. The Kansas Bioscience Authority's board of directors dedicated $1.548 million to the BRI to add high-end video capabilities to the institute's educational infrastructure. The grant will be used to purchase and install several high-resolution cameras with pan, tilt and zoom capabilities, as well as mobile video systems for use in the research labs. High-quality audio capture, editing and reproduction technology also was purchased to allow the BRI to produce and distribute professional-level training videos, as well expand its capabilities in the distance-training arena. In addition, the BRI will be the first in the nation to host the National Biosafety and Biocontainment Training Program's biosafety and biocontainment curriculum. The training is a recent initiative of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Division of Occupational Health and Safety at the National Institutes of Health. The Frontline Foundation organizes the program, which will provide the latest in professional education to those who handle biohazardous materials in biocontainment laboratories. February 2008
* Research and publications by faculty members in 2007 earned the department of plant pathology a top 10 ranking in The Chronicle of Higher Education's annual assessment of scholarly productivity. The department ranked eighth among all U.S. research universities. February 2008
* The Kansas Bioscience Authority has announced a $2.5 million initiative to add more horsepower to K-State's research capabilities in addressing threats to the nation's food supply. The Collaborative Biosecurity Research Initiative will bring K-State's unique biosecurity research capabilities to investigators across the nation. The program will offer researchers from academia, the federal government and non-profit groups a chance to conduct research at K-State's Biosecurity Research Institute and develop solutions to today's biosecurity problems. Under this program, the authority will fund research awards of up to $500,000 to investigators for projects conducted in partnership with Kansas researchers, and that take place at the Biosecurity Research Institute. January 2008
* K-State and Fort Riley are strengthening their commitments to assisting soldiers and their families by creating a Cooperative Extension program tailored to the needs of military personnel. A new memorandum of understanding will allow K-State Extension family and consumer science programs, affiliated with the College of Human Ecology, to give military families information on diverse family-related issues. Topics could include parenting, family communication, child and youth development, nutrition and food preparation, physical activity and health, and money management. K-State also will be contracting with the Department of Defense and Fort Riley to deliver education based on their specific needs. In a related effort, the College of Human Ecology is working to increase the clinical services it provides to Fort Riley families through K-State's Speech and Hearing Center and the Family Center. January 2008
* Juergen Richt, K-State's Regents Distinguished Professor, is one of Kansas' first Bioscience Eminent Scholars. The Kansas Bioscience Eminent Scholars Program is designed to attract distinguished bioscience researchers to Kansas research institutions, as well as their research and commercialization activities. An eminent scholar is a relatively new hire and an individual acknowledged as a scholar of distinction by national measures. The honor also comes with roughly $2 million in research funding over the next five years. Richt, an expert in emerging zoonotic diseases, is a veterinary microbiologist who has worked with multiple agents of zoonotic potential, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy, chronic wasting disease, animal flu, borna virus and other emerging diseases. Zoonotic diseases, those that can be transmitted between humans and animals, are a growing concern for pubic health. He is one of two Kansas Bioscience Eminent Scholars for 2008. January 2008
* A nationwide survey rates academic programs offered in K-State's College of Architecture, Planning and Design as among the tops in the nation, as well as the interior design program offered through K-State's College of Human Ecology. According to the 2008 survey of leading design firms across the nation, conducted by the journal DesignIntelligence and the Design Futures Council in conjunction with the Almanac of Architecture and Design, K-State ranks first among bachelor of landscape architecture programs; fourth among master of interior architecture/design programs; sixth among master of landscape architecture programs; eighth among bachelor of architecture programs; eighth among bachelor of interior architecture/design programs; and13th among master of architecture programs. K-State offers programs in both interior architecture and product design, through the College of Architecture, Planning and Design, and in interior design through the College of Human Ecology; for survey purposes, the programs are combined. The annual survey is conducted to determine the top 15 colleges and universities for architecture and design in the U.S. A cross-section of firms with a disbursed geographic profile -- including firms that are leaders in their market sector and that have won major national, state, local and market-sector awards -- were surveyed. January 2008