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2018 Student Achievements

 

• Prestigious fellows: Five students recipients of Eisenhower Transportation Graduate Fellowships.

• Veterinary scholars: Three veterinary medicine students earn scholarships from animal health-related organizations.

• Champs again: K-State Crops Team is national champion for 16th time in last 20 years.

• Cyber champions: Cyber Defense Club earns top honors in national DOE competition.

• Way to grow: Horticulture student Megan Haresnape named Shinoda Scholar of the Year.

• Broadcast honors: JMC students earn top awards at South Central Broadcast Society competition.

• A big salute: Doctoral student in personal financial planning named Military Spouse Fellow of the Year.

• Design for success: K-State Student Union staffers, students earn honors from ACUI Region II.

• Managing expectations well: Hospitality management team earns second place at international competition.

• Counseling kudos: Education doctoral student Alicia Jackson is state's school counselor of the year.

• Design for success: K-State Student Union staffers, students earn honors from ACUI Region II.

• Good reads: Collegian Media Group publications and students earn national honors for excellence.

• Sensational sellers: K-State has top individual seller, third-place team in international competition.

• Star salute: K-State's Eric Koehlmoos named National FFA Star in Agriscience.

• On top down under: Crops Team takes third in Australian competition.

• Building success: Student architectural engineering and construction science teams take first and second places in regional Associated Schools of Construction competition.

• Piano perfectionists: Piano students take top honors at Kansas Music Teachers Association state auditions.

• Chapter kudo: K-State's Beta Alpha Psi recognized as superior chapter.

• Global impact: K-State doctoral candidate in genetics winner of prestigious Board for International Food and Agricultural Development's Student Award for Scientific Excellence in a Feed the Future Innovation Lab.

• Perfect piloting: Kansas State Polytechnic Flight Team headed to nationals with second-place regional finish.

• Super seller: K-State Sales Team member Abbie O'Grady wins Top Salesperson Award at the Great Northwoods Sales Warm-up.

• Financial wizards: For 16th time in last 17 years, K-State's personal financial planning student team places in top three in the national Financial Planning Challenge competition.

• Bowling them over: K-State communication sciences and disorders team wins regional conference quiz bowl.

• Designing excellence: Interior architecture & product design student selected for $30,000 scholarship.

• National honors: K-State's chapter of Delta Sigma Phi and university's former Interfraternity Council president earn national awards of distinction from the North American Interfraternity Conference.

• Select honor: K-State's Loan Tang named to Gilman Alumni Ambassadors.

• Rewarded for research: Agriculture education students earn honors for research from North Central American Association for Agricultural Education.

• Great at geography: Geography students earn honors for research, projects at annual meeting of Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Division of the American Association of Geographers.

• Human resource management senior selected as GLADD campus ambassador.

• Powerful research: Chemistry doctoral student receives fellowship from Department of Energy.

• Dig this: Volleyball's Brynn Carlson named to honor society Kappa Omicron Nu's board of directors.

• Research raves: Chemistry doctoral student Tuyen Nguyen earns first-place honors for oral presentation at biopharmaceutical symposium.

• 'Ad'vantageous work: Three journalism and mass communications students receive American Advertising Federation-Kansas City scholarships.

• Research raves: Chemistry doctoral student Tuyen Nguyen earns first-place honors for oral presentation at biopharmaceutical symposium.

• Top eats: Food science students win national product competition for protein-rich dairy drink.

• Excellent engineering: Architectural engineering and construction science team takes first place in national HVAC competition.

• Plan for success: For third year in a row, student from K-State's personal financial planning program earns NextGen RIA Scholarship.

• Water wonder: Fountain Wars Team places in top three of international competition for seventh time in last eight years.

• Designed success: Apparel and textiles student wins third place in national design competition.

• Successful students: Biological and agricultural engineering students earn honors at international meeting.

• Fashion forward: Apparel and textiles student's work to be showcased at prestigious fashion event.

• A-plus architecture: APDesign's Design+Make Studio earns top honor from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design for the Waldo Duplex project.

• Striking the right note: Music composition graduate receives Phi Kappa Phi graduate fellowship.

• Designing for success: Interior design team takes second place in national competition.

• New veterinary graduate honored with Merck Animal Health Veterinary Student Innovation Award.

• Winning design: Interior design student's work wins People's Choice Award at international design convention.

Veterinary biomedical studies graduate student named Seabord American Royal scholar.

• Well-planned: Financial planning graduate students among InvestmentNews' "40 Under 40" honorees.

Agronomy faculty, students receive honors at national conference.

• Teams with true pull: University's quarter-scale tractor teams power way to top finishes.

• Plan for success: Regional and community planning graduate student earns $10,000 scholarship.

Earning a big salute: National survey ranks K-State best public university in Kansas for veterans.

• Blowing out the competition: K-State team takes third at Collegiate Wind Competition.

• Champion for youth: Gilman scholarship winner Cheyanne Helms to work with youth in Dominican Republic.

• Making an award-winning point: Collegian columnist Kyle Hampel wins national award from Society of Professional Journalists for his work.

• Global potential: Agricultural economics student named a Cargill Global Scholar.

• The real deal: K-State sales team wins Western States Collegiate Sales Competition.

• Expert judgement: K-State takes reserve champion Sweepstakes Award at 2018 NACTA Judging Conference.

• Purple pays off: K-State graduates finding success following graduation — and the highest average starting salary.

• Fulbright winner: Nutrition, dietetics and sensory science graduate student receives Fulbright U.S. Student Award.

• Noteworthy scholarship: Engineering student, Air Force ROTC cadet earns prestigious doctoral fellowship for nuclear engineering.

• Conquering the challenge: K-State team wins Kansas Entrepreneurship Challenge.

• Concrete success: Civil engineering student earns national scholarship.

• In the loop: Three business students earn scholarships from supply chain management professional group.

• Equine excellence: Vet student receives prestigious equine scholarship for second year in a row.

• Business boost: K-State team takes top honors in Kansas Entrepreneurship Challenge.

• Here's the scoop: Journalism student participates in select New Fellows program of the National Newspaper Association.

• Write stuff: Hospitality management students earn best paper honors in the undergraduate section of the Korea America Hospitality and Tourism Educators Association, while doctoral students in industrial engineering take top paper honors in modelling and simulation from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers.

• Double winner: Veterinary student repeats as recipient of scholarship for future equine veterinarians.

• Bright futures: Seven architectural engineering students earn Besal Lighting Education scholarships.

• Instrumental win: Organ performance student wins regional organ performance competition.

• Select honor: Three students earn honorable mention for Goldwater scholarship.

• Constructing success: Architectural engineering team wins construction category of Architectural Engineering Institute international competition.

• National excellence: Four K-Staters earn the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

• Teaching tradition: For third year in a row, K-State graduate teaching assistant wins Excellence in Teaching Award from Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools.

• 'Meat'ing with success: Meat Animal Evaluation Team earns national championship.

• Global 'Cats: Two K-State students named Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship recipients.

• Smooth talkers: Speech team earns Top 10 finish at nationals.

• Broadcasting the best: KSDB-FM and KKSU-TV students earn honors from Kansas Association of Broadcasters.

• Language masters: K-State senior wins collegiate Japanese language competition; two students named finalists.

• A green touch: Sustainable design team earns grant for EPA competition.

• Research reward: Undergraduate veterinary medicine researcher earns $3,000 research award.

• Perfect posters: Veterinary medicine students winners in American Association of Swine Veterinarians' Veterinary Student Poster Competition.

• Building success: Construction science and management students recipients of national scholarships from the Mechanical Contractors Association of America.

• Engineering excellence: College of Engineering students receive scholarships from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Kansas.

• A great start: Interior architecture & product design student earns second-place Beginning Undergraduate Student Award from the Interior Design Educators Council.

• Challenge tackled: Risk management team takes second in national competition.

• Poultry power: Veterinary medicine students presented $5,000 scholarships to study poultry medicine.

• Making a CASE: Two student groups, advisor earn recognition from District VI of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.

• Reeling in the big one: K-State teams wins Carhartt Bassmaster College Classic.

• Leading by example: K-State's Black Student Union named best in Big 12 for 10th time in last 12 years.

• Best on radio: Student-run KSDB earns two top awards at national collegiate competition.

• Sold on success: Sales team wins Arizona Collegiate Sales Competition.

• Winning verdict: Mock trial team headed to championship series.

• Taking charge: Senior design team wins best paper award at power and energy conference.

• K-State first: Senior Vaithish Velazhahan is university's first Gates Cambridge scholar.

• Conference champs: Students in wildlife and fisheries biology take home top honors at Kansas Natural Resources Conference.

• Radio raves: KSDB-FM students earn first place honor from Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts.

• Star power: Theatre student receives prestigious fellowship and audition opportunity.

• Cyber defenders: Cyber Defense Team takes second in national competition.

• Olympic opportunity: Digital media journalism student lands Winter Olympics internship.

• Scholarship leaders: University boasts high number of ASHRAE scholarship recipients.

• Research honor: Doctoral student in history receives dissertation fellowship.

• Writing perfection: Mechanical engineering doctoral student and hospitality management doctoral students earn best paper awards.

• Fellowship standouts: Two regional & community planning students receive Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Graduate Fellowship.

• High honors: Agronomy graduate students earn first-place honors in regional contest.

• Just write: Kansas Press Association recognizes work by writers for Kansas State Collegian, Manhappenin' magazine.