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A Kansas State University professor is using 'The Office' to help students understand economic concepts.

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A collaborative project involving a Kansas State University ecologist has shown that the Clean Air Act has helped forest systems recover from decades of sulfur pollution and acid rain. The research team spent four years studying centuries-old eastern red cedar trees, or Juniperus virginiana, in the Central Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia.

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An interdisciplinary group of Kansas State University researchers is studying how climate variability, climate change, land use and human activity affect Great Plains water systems.

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University students are helping protect the environment and reduce public health risks at a Kansas site.

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Entomologists have identified a neuropeptide named natalisin that regulates the sexual activity and reproductive ability of insects. The finding may open new possibilities for environmentally friendly pest management.

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A study focuses on future availability of groundwater in the High Plains Aquifer. It finds that if current irrigation trends continue, 69 percent of the groundwater stored in the aquifer will be depleted in 50 years.

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Researchers found a preliminary link between workaholics and reduced physical and mental well-being.

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Researchers have found and cloned a gene that prevents wheat from preharvest sprouting. The finding will to be most beneficial to white wheat production, which loses $1 billion annually.

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Kansas State University faculty members helped create an online program to strengthen veterinarians' small business knowledge and skills.

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The National Science Foundation has named Kansas State University as its lead institution for the world's first Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on wheat.

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Kansas State University's Electronics Design Laboratory and Lawrence-based Avatekh Inc. are improving the technology behind wireless communication systems and smartphones.

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The Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory is offering a rapid, accurate serology test for canine brucellosis, an infectious disease that affects male and female dogs' abilities to reproduce.

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A process used to help adults with anxiety disorders may also have a place in the classroom, helping children keep their focus on the subject at hand.

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Paying your kids for getting good grades may not be the most effective way to motive them to do well in school, according to a Kansas State University expert.

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Kansas State University is the recipient of a $13.7 million grant that helps end poverty and increase crop food supplies in semi-arid Africa by improving the sorghum and millet crops in three African countries.

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With blue-green algae contaminating lakes nationwide, a Kansas State University toxicologist warns pet owners to understand the bacteria's dangers for their pets and for themselves.

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Teachers spent three weeks at Kansas State University learning inquiry, a form of teaching that will make science and agriculture more exciting so students will become interested at a young age.

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A sociologist is examining why Hispanic immigration has become more common in rural areas and how Hispanic immigrants have adapted in these places, particularly southwest Kansas.

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A research project at Kansas State University has the potential to treat human deafness and loss of balance.