As take-out food continues to increase in popularity, new research from Kansas State University has found that safe handling labels can help restaurants and food providers distinguish themselves in a competitive marketplace.
A neutron detector created at Kansas State University has been named one of the top 100 technologies of the year.
From a demographic standpoint, the problem that arises when aging farmers turn their operations over to corporations is long-term sustainability, for which family farming is better suited.
A Kansas State University study examined young adults' media consumption and the effects of new media on their political knowledge and political activism. It showed that 18- to 24-year-olds' engagement in politics through media such as blogs and YouTube did not increase their knowledge.
A Kansas State University veterinarian explains why dog and cat bites can be dangerous and what to do if you've been bitten. She also offers tips on avoiding a bite in the first place.
Kansas State University students are combining engineering and nature to design a more affordable and more sustainable lighting source for those living without electricity. The solar lantern with a more affordable initial cost is geared toward people living in Sub-Saharan Africa, the least electrified region in the world.
By understanding if bitterness sensitivity is linked to type 2 diabetes, there is a potential to screen individuals for bitterness sensitivity and to use that information as a predictive marker for the disease and other chronic disease such as heart disease and obesity.
Many factors make patriotic music appealing: memorable melodies, catchy and often repetitive rhythms, the emotional content of the lyrics, and, to a lesser extent, the occasion for which the music was written.
A study of the behaviors elicited from the musical lyrics of common songs is showing that patriotic songs may make participants close-minded and prejudiced while songs like "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" may stimulate a pro-social response.
Having online obituaries on which readers can comment has positive implications for a community of mourners, but it poses a conundrum for newspapers. In part, this is because the such pages recreate the look of the hosting newspaper. Researchers say the ethical implications need to be considered.
Louis Crane, K-State professor of mathematics, is studying new theories about why the universe is the way it is. He has a grant from the Foundational Questions Institute to study new approaches to the quantum theory of gravity, his primary research area as both a mathematician and a physicist. Crane hopes to uncover implications of these theories for the origin and the future of life.
Strategies to mitigate disease epidemics in cities will not be so effective in rural areas, according to computer engineers, because in cities, people have a lot of informal contact with one another but looser ties. Rural residents also report being more likely to visit and interact with others during an epidemic.
A veterinarian at Kansas State University's College of Veterinary Medicine has advice for pet owners who want to consider how pets fit into their own household emergency plans "” especially if that includes evacuating.
Food waste generated at Kansas State University dining centers may end up back on students' plates through composting efforts that are combining K-State's excellence in agriculture with the university's commitment to sustainability.
Kansas State University psychologists studying workplace hostility found that almost half of workers in a hostile environment had no definite plans to leave their current job. In addition, 59 percent indicated that they either liked or did not dislike their current job.
With fresh air and wide-open spaces, rural communities may seem like hotbeds for healthy living. Limited access to walking trails, bicycle-friendly streets and gyms tell another story. The Get it-Do it program to provide rural communities with $3,000 grants to improve community health and fitness.
In 1918 a human influenza virus known as the Spanish flu spread through the central United States while a swine respiratory disease occurred concurrently. A Kansas State University researcher has found that the virus causing the pandemic was able to infect and replicate in pigs, but did not kill them, unlike in other mammalian hosts like monkeys, mice and ferrets where the infection has been lethal.
A mysterious island that moves through time. Travelers in search of answers. It sounds something like the science fiction television show "Lost," but it also describes a new approach to teaching earth sciences to high school students. TerraWorld, an island in Second Life, helps students learn geology in an interactive way. It is part of the larger GeoWorlds project.
Vikas Berry, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Kansas State University, is leading research combining biological materials with graphene, a recently developed carbon material that is only a single atom thick.
When animals in southern Africa are sick, often the first place their caretakers look for help is from native plants. That's what makes understanding and conserving these plants so important, according to a group of Kansas State University researchers who are learning more about the uses of such plants in veterinary medicine.
Students in Elizabeth Barrett's convention and event management course put together a launch party for Kansas State University's recently renamed department of hospitality management and dietetics. They procured a location, catering, flowers and promotional fliers -- all in Second Life.
Kansas State University biologists are working with a researcher in Ghana to create biodiesel from the seeds of trees that are common and well adapted to the climate of northern Ghana.
K-State researcher suggests a different approach for measuring employees' cardiovascular health that includes a link to psychological well-being.
The problem of germ or bacteria resistance to drugs -- or antimicrobials -- used to treat infections not only affects humans, but also animals. When the animals involved are food animals like cattle, antimicrobial resistance becomes even more of a challenge because of potential food safety concerns. If cattle bacteria that harbor resistance can be transmitted through the food supply and infect humans, then public health may be threatened.
Kirk H. Schulz, 45, an outstanding academic leader with experience at land grant universities and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has been selected as president of Kansas State University by the Kansas Board of Regents. Most recently Schulz has been vice president for research and economic development at Mississippi State University.
Dog owners who sleep with their pet or permit licks on the face are in good company. Surveys show that more than half of owners bond with their pets in these ways. These dog owners are no more likely to share the same strains of E. coli bacteria with their pets than are other dog owners.
Although a new nursing home quality rating system has several dimensions, experts say it fails to address perhaps the most important question: Are the residents who live there happy?
A Kansas State University researcher thinks games like Nintendo's Wii Fit can help promote physical rather than sedentary activities for people of all ages.
Kansas State University engineers are developing an energy-harvesting radio for Peregrine Semiconductor, a San Diego-based integrated circuit manufacturer. The radio could transmit important data -- like stress measurements on a bridge, for instance -- without needing a change of batteries, ever.
Bullying on the college campus is not a big issue for a majority of college freshmen recently surveyed at Kansas State University. The survey shows that those students who do think bullying is an issue are prepared to take action to stop or prevent it. The researchers were surprised to find how many students fingered one Web site, Juicy Campus, as a source of cyberbullying. The researchers will use the survey results to help K-12 schools and community groups thwart bullying before it comes to campus.
Why do restaurant workers -- who handle an estimated 70 billion meals and snacks in the U.S. every year -- sometimes not follow common food safety practices such as washing their hands properly or keeping work surfaces sanitary? According to a recent Kansas State University study, restaurant workers blame time constraints, inconvenience, inadequate training and inadequate resources for failure to follow food safety practices.
In research that could mitigate the spread of Lyme disease, Kansas State University entomologists are looking for answers in tick saliva. They are working to understand what controls the salivary gland system in black-legged ticks. Because Lyme disease is spread through the tick's saliva, Park said that eventually their study could be a tool for disrupting the disease transmission.
A Kansas State University graduate student has found a correlation between childhood obesity and asthma. Sara Rosenkranz, doctoral student in human nutrition, conducted research that found that healthy children with higher levels of body fat and lower levels of physical activity had greater amounts of airway narrowing after exercise.
What parents make available for their children to eat can contribute to an obesity-prone home food environment, according to researchers at Kansas State University. "Many people view healthful eating and physical activity as an individual responsibility, but research says that we tend to eat what is available," said David Dzewaltowski, professor and head of the department of kinesiology at K-State.
An atypical prion strain of mad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BS, is more virulent than the classical strain, according to a researcher who spoke Nov. 14 at Kansas State University.
Kansas State University researchers found that freshwater pollution by phosphorous and nitrogen costs government agencies, drinking water facilities and individual Americans at least $4.3 billion annually. Of that, they calculated that $44 million a year is spent just protecting aquatic species from nutrient pollution.
Kansas State University's Michael Wesch is the winner of the national professor of the year award for research and doctoral universities from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
Programs that help low-income and minority individuals and families purchase a home may be doing more harm than good, according to a Kansas State University economist.
Research by K-State aging experts is helping nursing home staff become more comfortable dealing with residents' sexual expression.
Theoretical physicist Uwe Thumm and his colleagues Feng He and Andreas Becker not only work with some of the smallest molecules in the universe, but they now have found a way to control the motion of the molecules' building blocks, electrons and nuclei.
Kansas State University veterinarians are researching the interaction of two drugs commonly administered together to horses after surgery. The drugs are given to relieve pain and to help alleviate the gastrointestinal tract problems to which horses are prone. Research is showing that the drugs may not have the same type of potentially dangerous interaction in horses that they do in a test tube.
K-State's Institute of Personal Financial Planning is exploring new methods to help families cope with economic hard times.
Financial problems are often a family problem and parents need to manage stress so they do not transfer their anxiety onto their children, according to experts at Kansas State University.
A new medication is available to treat dogs with Cushing's disease, but pet owners should be prepared for the cost of managing the disease, according to a veterinarian at Kansas State University's College of Veterinary Medicine.
The Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy at Kansas State University is partnering with Kids Voting Kansas to encourage kids to participate in the election process by offering them an opportunity to vote on Election Day.
The J.R. Macdonald Laboratory at Kansas State University has shifted its research focus to ultrafast laser science. This change in emphasis could lead to innovations benefiting medicine, energy and other technologies.
K-State student financial aid expert discusses ways to pay for college in challenging economic times.
A Kansas State University professor is working to develop a standard formula for determining the temperature ratings for cold-weather clothing. The goal is to have all manufacturers doing the same testing so a consumer can compare one product to another.
A K-State textiles professor says layering clothing, wearing a hat and using thick fabrics is key to keeping warm.
New findings about the causes of mad cow disease show that sometimes it may be genetic.
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