June 2025
K-State in the news
Some of the top stories mentioning Kansas State University are posted below. Download an Excel file (xls) with all of this month's news stories.
Friday, June 6, 2025
National/International
Empowering the Next Generation: Youth for the Quality Care of Animals Supports Future Leaders With $30,000 in Scholarships
6/5/25 Morning Ag Clips
Ally Rietcheck of Gardner, Kansas was awarded $2,500 and will attend Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas.
Local
High school students preview college life at 4-H Discovery Days
6/5/25 Manhattan Mercury
Kansas 4-H gives high schoolers the college experience each year at Discovery Days, where students can visit K-State and take classes to get familiar with a college schedule.
Thursday, June 5, 2025
State/Regional
K-State youth development agent shares ideas for activities with children
6/5/25 Rural Messenger
“A really easy activity that you can do with young children is make your own chalk paint,” said Tristen Cope, a family and youth development agent in K-State Research and Extension’s Chisholm Trail District.
Kansas winter wheat crop benefiting from rain
6/4/25 Brownfield
An extension agronomist with Kansas State University says recent rainfall could help increase winter wheat yields. Tina Sullivan, who covers northeast Kansas, says moisture in the last two weeks has improved crop conditions. “We were a little concerned when the USDA came out with that 40 to 50 bushels per acre and some of our wheat fields because I thought how are we going make it? Now, we’ve gotten that timely rain so we should probably get to that 40-to-50-bushel range, maybe even more.”
Historian on WW II Home Front at Museum Thursday
6/4/25 KSAL
Dr. Andrew Orr, author, speaker, professor of History, and director of the Institute of Military History at Kansas State University joined in on the KSAL Morning News Extra with a look ahead to his presentation coming up at the Smoky Hill Museum on Thursday.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
National/International
How to Have a Social Life Without Going Broke This Summer
06/02/25 Relevant
Socializing in your 20s and 30s often comes with a price tag — sometimes one you can’t actually afford. According to CreditKarma, 40 percent of millennials have spent money they didn’t have just to keep up with friends. “It’s easy to assume it’s fine to use debt to support current spending because ‘everyone is doing it,’” said Dr. Sonya Britt-Lutter, a personal financial planner and professor at Kansas State University. “The use of debt cannot be an isolated decision. It is directly tied to current and future income.”
Rare G4 alert for geomagnetic storm could lead to GPS outages
06/02/25 Brownfield Ag News
A cropping systems specialist says that major disturbances in Earth’s magnetosphere will continue to disrupt GPS navigation for farmers into next year. “We’re still in what space scientists call the battle zone.” Terry Griffin with Kansas State University says geomagnetic storms occur about every 11 years after solar sunspot maximum and can impact GPS signals. “That means for the rest of the 2025 season – planting, summer, mid-season applications and harvest – we will still be vulnerable to solar activity even into the spring of 2026.”
State/Regional
K-State Opens Swine Nursery Facility, Hails Research Benefits to Producers
06/02/25 Farms.com
Kansas State University animal scientists are hailing the opening of a new swine nursery facility on the north side of the university’s Manhattan campus as another step toward improving profitability and efficiency for swine producers in Kansas and beyond. Joel DeRouchey, a swine specialist with K-State Research and Extension, said the new facility at the university’s Swine Research and Teaching Center will be used to study the best ways to manage nursery pigs, or those who have been weaned but not yet ready for the finishing facility.
Monday, June 2, 2025
National/International
Red Alert: A Louisiana refinery spilled toxic waste into the community and knew about it for months
6/2/25 Yahoo News
Ganga Hettiarachchi, a Kansas State University professor of soil and environmental chemistry, said cadmium could pose the greatest long-term risk because it spreads easily and accumulates in living organisms over time. Enough small doses during a given time period can add up to a fatal dose, she said.
State/Regional
Brushing Away Bovine Stress
6/2/25 KSAL
A new product that reduces animal stress could be the key to increasing artificial insemination rates in cattle. Kansas State University’s Technology Development Institute, or TDI, collaborated with faculty in the College of Agriculture to design, produce and test the product.
Local
Local scouts immersed in the world of pets and animals to earn merit badge
5/31/25 WIBW
That was followed by a free afternoon event for the entire community to interact with various pet-related organizations, including Helping Hands Humane Society, Team Kitten, K-State Mobile Veterinary Unit, Kansas Search and Rescue Dog Assoc, Street Dog Coalition, Camo Cross Dog Training, and Suds & Snoots Dog Grooming.