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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

National/International

Move Over, Quinoa. There’s a New ‘It’ Crop in Town.
04/27/25 The Wall Street Journal
As the trade war strands sorghum in Kansas, the state’s farmers hope to push the tiny grain with an uncool name onto dinner plates. The dishes, starring what some are calling the next super food, rolled out of the kitchen of a Kansas State University gastropub: a cold plate of veggies with the tiny grain drizzled in honey-lemon vinaigrette; a ginger-soy vegan stir fry; and a creamy pudding. Rice? Quinoa? Couscous? Try sorghum—a high protein, non-GMO, gluten-free grain. It’s what’s for dinner.

New Scholarships Help Kansans Become Teachers
04/28/25 Philanthropy News Digest
Kansas State University’s College of Education has announced a new $3,000 Pathway to Teaching Scholarship to help Kansans who want to change careers become licensed teachers and address the state’s growing teacher shortage.

Ag Foundation Launches Tower Garden Curriculum
04/28/25 MorningAg Clips
The Rural Education Center in Kansas State University’s College of Education and the Kansas Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom (KFAC) received a $150,000 grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to attract students to degrees in agriculture and food science.

Research partners to offer rancher education series
04/28/25 High Plains Journal
Noble Research Institute, a trusted educational resource for farmers and ranchers since 1945, Kansas State University and Hy-Plains Feedyard have partnered to launch a three-year educational program designed to promote sustainable grazing practices in the Flint Hills region of Kansas and Oklahoma.

Local

Kansas Science Festival illuminates local families
04/28/25 Manhattan Mercury
Attendees held snakes, watched chemical reactions and played games at the fourth-annual Kansas Science Festival in Manhattan on Saturday. Many departments at K-State were on hand to present demonstrations and experiments. K-State professor of biology Loretta Johnson gave a presentation on local prairie grasses, showing how to grow prairie plants in the garden. She gave plant samples for attendees to take home.