STUDENT AND FACULTY SPOTLIGHT
English grad student recognized for exemplary teaching
Delaney Sullivan, master’s student in English, received a Graduate Student Council Award for Graduate Student Teaching Excellence. She wins $500 and will be one of K-State’s nominees for similar regional awards.
Three ArtSci students win awards at Model UN conference
K-State’s Model United Nations team competed against more than 1,400 students from 77 colleges and universities at the American Model UN International Collegiate Conference Nov. 18-21 in Chicago. Topics debated were natural disaster resiliency and financing of clean energy.
Three ArtSci students won awards:
- Andrew Navarro, junior in political science, pre-law, with a minor in Spanish.
- Jacob Hofman, senior in political science, pre-law, and economics with a minor in statistics.
- Maria Velazco, freshman in sociology and international studies with a minor in business.
Read more about the conference.
Model United Nations is a simulation of the UN General Assembly and other multilateral bodies. In Model UN, students represent UN member states and debate current issues. K-State’s Model UN competes in annual conferences in Chicago and elsewhere.
¡Viva San Fermín!: K-State student visits home of the Running of the Bulls
Madison Quinn, junior in Spanish and advertising and public relations with a minor in marketing, shares her experience studying in Spain as part of a K-State summer abroad program. Read about her visit to Pamplona and the route of the world-famous, centuries-old event in her blog post published by K-State Education Abroad.
Professors to know!
Go places with media and communication professor Andrew Smith!
Dr. Smith was recently chosen from applicants across the country to participate in a faculty and administrative education abroad workshop in Barcelona, Spain, and he regularly teaches photography and digital storytelling courses for the K-State in Italy summer program and has taken students to London to learn mobile journalism (and will again next spring).
Get a lesson in chemistry from Dr. Yasmin Patell!
Dr. Patell is a popular Chemistry I and II lecturer who impacts well over a thousand undergraduate students a year. She’s known for her highly organized lectures, carefully optimized to help students learn the unique concepts covered in first-year chemistry. This is just one of her many teaching awards.