2021 All-University Achievements
• Welcoming for all: K-State nationally recognized as among the most diverse, inclusive universities for eighth year in a row.
• Among the best: K-State one of the top schools on Princeton Review's latest lists, and Niche.com rates K-State the best university in Kansas.
• Sunflower State boost: K-State unveils Economic Prosperity Plan for Kansas.
• Standout professor: LaBarbara Wigfall honored as NOMA Midwest member of year.
• Recognized researchers: Veterinary Medicine's Ganta and Nagaraja named international research fellows.
• Leader in his field: Mark Haub celebrated as fellow of Food Systems Leadership Institute.
• Setting the standard: Engineering's Kimberly Kramer elected committee chair for Kansas State Board of Technical Professions.
• Write on top: Ag econ's Nathan Henricks and colleague receive best article award from leading ag econ journal.
• Top teacher: Food, nutrition, dietetics and health's Linda Yarrow receives regional 2021 Excellence in College and University Teaching Award for Food and Agricultural Sciences.
• Elite researchers: K-State faculty listed among top researchers in study.
• World champs: K-State Sales Team wins 2021 World Cup of Sales.
• Setting standards: Personal financial planning's Martin Seay elected to national certified financial planning board of directors.
• Global viewings: Work by Kevin Bernstein part of two museum exhibition.
• Prestigious fellowship: Philosophy's Amelia Hicks named Media fellow.
• National service: Chief Information Officer Gary Pratt to serve on APLU commission.
• Best in Kansas: Music's Slawomir Dobrzanski receives 2021 Outstanding Teacher Award from the Kansas Music Teachers Association.
• Publishing prowess: Politcal science professors author new book published by top political science publisher.
• Best of the best in '21: K-State faculty author, co-author best-of-the-year articles for Family Relations, International Journal of Business Communication.
• Reserch recognition: Family science doctoral student earn best student paper award from National Council on Family Relations.
• Adds up to a high finish: Financial planning team takes second in national competition.
• International service: Interior architecture & industrial design's Vibhavari Jani to serve on International Interior Design Association's Equity Council.
• Cementing her excellence: Kimberly Kramer receives Concrete Sustainability Award from American Concrete Institute.
• Serving the state: Architecture's Wendy Ornelas named chair of Kansas State Board on Technical Professions.
• Prize pair: Mechanical engineering Professor Gurpreet Singh and graduate student Shakir Bin Mujib earn 2021 Nanomaterials and Energy Prize from Institution of Civil Engineers.
• Elite fellowships: Agronomy doctoral student named Encompass fellow, while veterinary student earns NBAF Training Program fellowship.
• Rising star: Physicist Loren Greenman receives early-career scientist award from U.S. Department of Energy.
• Top student publications, media: Collegian Media Group earns multiple honors at national convention.
• Designed win: Interior design team takes second in national video competition.
• Online scholar: National continuing education association recognizes K-State student Linda Wilson with regional outstanding student award.
• 'Sales-sational' team: Sales Team sweeps Challenger Sales Institute Challenge.
• Service honored: KSRE associate director emeritus named to National 4-H Hall of Fame.
• Teaming up: New university-industry partnerships to improve animal health, soil health.
• Certified excellence: Bachelor's program in finance earns select designation for teaching high professional, ethical standards.
• Way with words: Engineering's Behrooz Mirafzal publishes textbook on power electronics.
• Inaugural scholar: Fourth-year veterinary students earns new Aurora Pharmaceutical scholarship.
• By design: Fashion studies faculty member, student earn top poster award.
• Select honor: Geology graduate student earns Geological Society of America grant for geology outreach event for middle school, high school students.
• Bassoon master: Reed-making tool by music's Susan Maxwell offered nationally; writes key study of instrument.
• Booking it: Gender, women, and sexuality studies' Christie Launius co-authors new textbook.
• Storyteller: David Pickering's third book a biography on famous organists.
• Great place to work: Forbes ranks K-State as top three employer in Kansas.
• Twice the excellence: Landscape architecture student earns two prestigious scholarships from Landscape Architecture Foundation.
• Author, author: New books by English faculty include "Body: Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities" by Lisa Tatonetti and "A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Nineteenth Century" by Naomi Wood.
• For the bright: K-State selected for certified lighting intern program.
• Planted in excellence: College of Agriculture remains one of top 10 agricultural sciences schools in nation.
• Going places: Seven K-State students offered Gilman scholarships for education abroad.
• A worthy career: Kansas Association of Broadcasts honors A.Q. Miller School's Steve Smethers with Distinguished Service, hall of fame induction.
Best of the best: K-State among top LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities.
• Ultimate storyteller: University's research magazine, Seek, internationally recognized for excellence.
• Smart choice: K-State named top educational value in Kansas.
• Top scholar: Entomology doctoral student receives prestigious USDA-NIFA fellowship.
• Next-gen leader: Agronomy doctoral student selected as Borlaug Scholar.
• Salute for her service: K-State senior and veteran receives received the GI Jobs Student Veteran Leader Award.
• Fitting tribute: Regional continuing education association award renamed in honor of emeritus Dean Sue Maes.
• Outstanding paper: Biology's Alice Boyle earns Katma Award from ornithology associations as co-writer of innovative article.
• Excellence in engagement: Director of Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy, Tim Shaffer, to serve on Engagement Scholarship Consortium.
• Among the best: Tim Musch named one of the top researchers in microcirculation.
• Winning concept: Agricultural engineering researchers earn Rain Bird Engineering Concept of the Year award.
• Conquering the competition: Architectural engineering and construction science team takes second in international competition.
• National recognition: Goodband, Tokach awarded by the American Society of Animal Science.
• International winner: Engineering junior receives prestigious ASHRAE scholarship.
• Landing a big honor: K-State Polytechnic selected to lead national UAS competition.
• Prestigious award: New graduate is K-State's latest Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship winner.
• Valued educator: Elizabeth Kiss receives Stewart M. Lee Consumer Education Award.
• Recognized for research: Vet med student using national research fellowship to study deadly swine disease.
• Pass the baton: Alex Wimmer new president-elect of Kansas Bandmasters Association.
• Select honor: Medical laboratory science student earns national scholarship.
• Virus beaters: Researchers Kim and Chang publish new study on Sars-CoV-2 treatment.
• Emerging leader: College of Engineering's Chassy Nichols selected for new Emerging Leaders Program of the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
• Superior software: K-State-developed PEARS software selected as national reporting system for SNAP-ed.
• Top researchers: Biology doctoral student earns honors from Southwestern Association of Naturalists for research, while industrial and manufacturing systems engineering doctoral student earns wins paper award at national conference.
• A welcoming place for all: K-State among top LGBTQ-friendly schools.
• Leading the way: Kevin Sauer serving as president of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
• Blowing away the competition: K-State Collegiate Wind Team earns national honors for turbine prototype.
• Ruling the airwaves: K-State student radio station Wildcat 91.9 wins two bronze Telly Awards.
• Award-winning visions: Projects by landscape architecture graduate students earn honors.
• Gift with financial impact: Donation from College of Business Administration alumni establishes Gates Capital Management Center for Financial Analysis.
• Fine design: Interior architecture & industrial design's Hernán Gregorio receives Silver A' Design Award, while Kutay Güler wins international 2021 Bronze A'Design Award, both for furniture designs.
• Making a difference: Two College of Education faculty members recognized for helping rural schools in Australia and Kansas.
• A high assessment: K-State's director of assessment elected to board of the Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education.
• No beef with this: K-State Meat Evaluation Team is the national champion.
• A welcoming place: K-State among top LGBTQ-friendly schools in nation.
• Just "plane" good: K-State Polytechnic's Steven Locklear named aviation maintenance educator of the year.
• Meeting the highest standards: Center for Child Development earns national accreditation from NAEYC.
• Researcher on the rise: Food science doctoral candidate Daniel Vega wins national scholarship for his food safety research.
• Making waves: Jeridy Oetkin receives the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Making Waves Chapter Advisor Award.
• Fulbright winners: Two K-State students earn Fulbright awards, while one student named Fulbright alternate.
• 'Write' choice: BRI's Stephen Higgs co-authors of one of the Top 100 downloaded papers in Nature Scientific Reports.
• Best-connected: Manhattan is among Top 50 connected college towns.
• Attention-worthy: Two students earn honorable mention for Udall Scholarship.
• Bright futures: Five architectural engineering students earn national lighting design scholarships.
• Building excellence: Civil engineering student earns national scholarship from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Art scholar: Architecture's Joseph Watson selected for Tyson Scholar of American Art program.
• Still champs: K-State Crops Team continues winning ways.
• Solar power leader: K-State's Net Positive Studio takes honors in Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon Build Challenge.
• Award-winning messages: Division of Communications and Marketing earns national awards in Educational Advertising Awards competition.
• Power scholar: Nuclear engineering student receives DOE national scholarship.
• State's best: Collegian Media Group takes top honors in Kansas Collegiate Media competition.
• Sustainability champs: In Race for Waste recycling competition, K-State ties for first in Big 12.
• Technology excellence: K-State Libraries' Jason Coleman recognized with ETS Emerging Technology Section Achievement Award.
• "Write" way: K-State Polytechnic faculty, staff edit, author chapters in new editition of unmanned aircraft systems textbook.
• One for the books: All In for K-State raises more than $500,000 for Textbooks 2.0 initiative.
• Passion for fashion: Two K-State students to showcase designs at Kansas City Fashion Week.
• Chapter kudos: K-State student chapter of the American Concrete Institute has been named a 2020 ACI Excellent University.
• Healthy selections: Five K-State Master of Public Health students earn awards from Midwestern Public Health Training Center.
• Best in Kansas: Doctoral candidate in school counseling named state's school counselor of the year.
• High honor: Doctoral student in chemistry earns honorable mention for NSF National Graduate Research Fellowship.
• Honored uniter: College of Agriculture's Zelia Wiley awarded for work in improving race relations in education.
• Broadcast best: K-State JMC students earn high honors from Kansas Association of Broadcasters.
• Elite selection: Junior in political science selected for Critical Language Scholarship Program.
• Teaching excellence: Horticulture and natural resources' Cathie Lavis is National Collegiate Landscape Competition's 2021 Educator of the Year.
• Service leader: Housing and Dining Services' Mary Molt recognized as leader in onsite food service preparation by Food Management.
• Top geographer: Geography doctoral student earns American Geographical Society Council Fellowship.
• A welcoming program: Hospitality administration master's program named among nation's best.
• Great place to work: K-State, KSU Foundation again named top employers.
• Proud and purple: K-State Alumni Association again tops in Big 12 for membership.
• A true gem: Geology's Behzad Ghanbarian receives the 2020 Soil Physics and Hydrology Early Career Award.
• Designed win: Interior design student team earns recognition for veteran community project.
• Tech leader: CIO Gary Pratt named to board of directors of Higher Education User Group.
• Science speaks: Master's student in agronomy to represent university in regional three-minute thesis competition.
• A CASE for excellence: University creative teams take top honors.
• "Hire" education at work: Latest post-graduation report finds 95% of K-State's 2019-2020 graduates employed or continuing their education.
• Head of the class: College of Education honored for exemplary elementary education programming.
• The right pitch: K-State Sales Team wins 2021 Desert Cup.
• Accomplished authors: English professor's book explores history, vast research of Alzheimer's disease, while dance professor publishes "DANCE Appreciation.
• Wind power: K-State selected for 2022 Collegiate Wind Competition.
• Salute for excellence: Weed Science Society of America honors agronomy's Mithila Jugulam for outstanding research.
• Online excellence: Online degree programs earn high rankings from U.S. News and World Report.
• International scholars: Two pre-veterinary students earn Gilman scholarship for studies, work abroad.
• Prestigious honor: Ag econ's Aleksan Shanoyan earns regional U.S. Department of Agriculture Excellence in College and University Teaching Awards for Food and Agricultural Science.
• Exceptional physicist: Physics graduate student Doyeong Kim named a 2021 LPC Graduate Scholar.
• Science leader: American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and Soil Science Society of America present agronomy graduate student with Future Leaders in Science Award; also receives inaugural Graduate Student Award for high productivity in research, publications and outreach from the North American Plant Phenotyping Network.
• Fit place to be: Greater KC Chamber of Commerce recognizes K-State Olathe as a top level healthy workplace.
• Excelling at outreach: National water council honors Jonathan Aguilar with Mid-Career Award for Extension/Outreach/Engagement.
• Top program: Housebeautiful.com, a part of Hearst Digital Media, names K-State's interior design program as one of the best.
• Tiffany Rogers-Randolph and Colby Moorberg honored with Innovative Teaching awards from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.
• National role: Veterinary Medicine's Raelene Wouda named certification liaison for national veterinary internal medicine association.
• Taking on COVID: Broad-spectrum protease inhibitor developed with K-State's help on to preclinical trial for possible COVID-19 vaccine.
• Engineering excellence: K-State sets record for largest number of engineering graduates ever in Kansas during 2020.
• K-State means business: Professional Master of Business Administration program ranks among best in nation.
• On course for success: Horticultural doctoral student receives Watson Fellowship from Golf Course Superintendents Association of American.
• Legendary faculty: Ted Cable, professor emeritus of park management and conservation receives Legend Award from national park and recreation academy.
• Top researcher: College of Veterinary Medicine's Juergen Richt receives Higuchi-KU Endowment Research Achievement Award.
• National director: Health and Human Sciences' Bronwyn Fees named director of APLU's Board on Human Sciences.
• By design: Landscape architecture student earns honor in international competition.
• On the front lines: Work by Lafene Health Center Medical Director Kyle Goerl contributes to CDC's revised quarantine guidelines for COVID-19.
• Virtual virtuosos: Members of Kansas State University Marching Band and the Class Cats Dance Team performing with select Intercollegiate Marching Band.
• Top teachers: National geoscience association names two geology graduate teaching assistants as it January 2021 outstanding GTAs.
• Business boosters: Technology Development Institute using CARES Act funding to help support Kansas manufacturers cope with pandemic.
• Research salute: College of Veterinary Medicine's Juergen Richt receives Excellence in Research Award from the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges.
