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Monday, Sept. 28, 2026

National/International

K-State Salina Piper Pacer Featured At Automotive Museum
9/27/2026 General Aviation News
Visitors who travel to the Garage Automotive Museum in Salina, Kansas, this fall will no doubt be impressed with the collection of red vehicles for the museum's "Red Hot Rides" exhibit, which includes a 1950 Piper Pacer. Until September 2026, the aircraft had been a mainstay in Kansas State University Salina's aviation maintenance hangar. Now, it is displayed at the museum, where it will stay until Jan. 11, 2027, before returning to campus. It started with one student’s idea. Through the process of planning, disassembling, parading, and reassembling the Pacer, many more K-State students got hands-on experience in aircraft maintenance.

State/Regional

This grain could be an answer to drought-prone fields – if more Americans eat it
9/28/2026 Kansas Public Radio
Sorghum thrives in conditions that make other crops wilt. It welcomes heat and tolerates drought. The plant grows deep roots to capture hard-to-reach moisture beneath the soil, according to Sarah Sexton Bowser, director for the Center for Sorghum Improvement at Kansas State University. "A connecting thread of sorghum production across the globe is you find sorghum production in spots where things are tough," said Sexton Bowser.

K-State researchers explore intergenerational connections
9/27/2026 KFEQ
What can happen when a nursing home and an elementary school share a roof? K-State researchers spent a year finding out at the Logan LIFE Center in rural northwest Kansas, and the early results are encouraging. … "This project is highly interdisciplinary, which has made it possible to document outcomes from multiple lenses; the richness of the data is remarkable," said Laci Cornelison, director of K-State's Center on Aging and chair of the gerontology program.

Local

Bond with kids even in routine tasks
9/25/2026 The Mercury
For some parents, bathing the kids, doing the laundry, making dinner and packing school lunches may seem like check marks on a daily to-do list. Bradford Wiles sees it much differently. "If we approach those tasks as opportunities to interact and bond with our kids," said Wiles, a child development specialist at Kansas State University, "it frames it in a much different way." He said being intentional in what may seem to be mundane, day-to-day interactions is how parents can help their children grow into confident adults.