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Join us for Wildcat tailgating fun!

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The College of Arts and Sciences hosts a tailgate party in Cat Town prior to each home football game this season and we are extending an invitation to the entire ArtSci family to join the fun and connect with your college!

Last year, nearly 500 college alumni and friends made this the best pre-game party in Cat Town. We hope you’ll join the fun in 2016!

People in purple K-State shirts eating barbecue under a white and purple striped tent.

Details

Cost: $25 per person

Location: Cat Town, USA, which is located at the south end of the west parking lot at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. Click for a map.

Start time: The party starts two hours prior to kickoff for each home game.

What does your $25 include?

  • Catered food and drinks from local favorite Cox Brothers BBQ
  • Pre-game visit from the K-State Marching Band
  • Opportunity to meet the Dean
  • Departmental updates
  • Purple Pride to take with you, like pens, chip clips, magnets and more
  • The festive pre-game atmosphere of Cat Town, USA leading up to kickoff

RSVP

To RSVP, click the “Register/RSVP” link next to the picture of Willie Wildcat on the following link: www.found.ksu.edu/rsvp/as-cattown

Tickets

Need tickets to the game? Contact the K-State ticket office at www.kstatesports.com or 800-221-CATS.

 

Anthropology Professor Launches New Podcast

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Associate Professor of Anthropology at K-State Mike Wesch is determined to shake up traditional teaching methods and the ways faculty and students interact with and understand each other.

Three people sitting in a radio production studio. Two are young male students and one is professor Mike Wesch, creator of the "Life 101" poscast.
Wesch (far right) discusses “Life101” story ideas with students during a production team meeting.

Wesch has been dubbed “the prophet of an education revolution” by the Kansas City Star and “the explainer” by Wired magazine. He was named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic and has won several major awards for his work, including the US Professor of the Year Award from the Carnegie Foundation and the Wired Magazine Rave Award. His videos, which touch on issues of pedagogy and cultural understanding, have been viewed more than 20 million times, translated into 20 languages and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide.

His latest project is a podcast, “Life101,” in which he seeks to tell the stories of college students through their own words and share their lived experiences in their own spaces. The goal? To lay bare the multifaceted, complicated, unique and ever-changing lives of modern students for a generation of faculty who are content to rely on Millennial stereotypes.

“The end game [of this research] is to allow all teachers and students to see past the stereotypes that lock us in to thinking this or that way about different people and about college life,” Wesch said. Continue reading “Anthropology Professor Launches New Podcast” →

Weekend of Performing Arts Brings Purple to Kansas City

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RhapsodyBy Kaylee Engle
Communications Student Assistant

The School of Music, Theatre, and Dance in the College of Arts & Sciences at Kansas State University will bring its talent to Kansas City for a weekend of performing arts. The weekend will feature a dinner on the Plaza, a theatre production and the showcase event, “Rhapsody II”, at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts May 9-10.

“Most performances of the School of Music, Theater, and Dance are done on campus and we’re excited to take our show to our alumni in the Kansas City area,” said Joshua Oppenheim, co-director of Choral Studies. “This is a great opportunity Continue reading “Weekend of Performing Arts Brings Purple to Kansas City” →

History Doctoral Students Enjoy Work at Eisenhower Museum

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Troy Elkins 200x200By Jacinda Dent
Communications Student Assistant

For history doctoral students Troy Elkins and Jeff Nelson, an ideal day is spent among historic artifacts and documents.

Elkins and Nelson both work at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas, the boyhood home of Dwight “Ike” D. Eisenhower who was 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961.

An open internship at the museum is offered to Continue reading “History Doctoral Students Enjoy Work at Eisenhower Museum” →

Criminologist ‘hacks’ the hacker, explores meaning of hacking

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hacker 200x300By Jennifer Tidball
K-State Today

We often view hackers as evil geniuses, but perhaps a more accurate depiction would be a talented — though sometimes mischievous — craft worker, according to a Kansas State University researcher.

The way society views hackers is not representative of the whole hacking culture, said Kevin Steinmetz, assistant professor of sociology, anthropology and social work in the College of Arts and Sciences. Simply stated: Hacking is more than breaking into security systems and computer networks.

“Hackers are sort of portrayed as this digital other, lurking in the Continue reading “Criminologist ‘hacks’ the hacker, explores meaning of hacking” →

Chief George Tiger gives keynote address

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Chief George TigerBy Dwanna Robertson

On Tuesday, March 24, more than 200 people were in attendance to hear George Tiger, principal chief of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and regent for Haskell Indian Nations University, deliver a keynote address that outlined overcoming adversity to achieve progress and community advancement through themes of vision, education, leadership and unity.

Students, staff, faculty, community members and representatives from K-State and the state of Kansas gathered at Continue reading “Chief George Tiger gives keynote address” →

Kansas State University Marching Band named among best in the land

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pride 200x200The Pride of Wildcat Land, the Kansas State University Marching Band, has reached national prestige.

The band has received the Sudler Trophy, which is given every two years to recognize the top marching band in the U.S.
 Frank Tracz, professor of music and the university’s director of bands, received the award Friday at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago.

“We are so proud of Dr. Tracz, our students, our staff and all Continue reading “Kansas State University Marching Band named among best in the land” →

Exploring the Digital Humanities

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vP_Q0yrc_400x400By Thomas Webb
Communications Student Writer

While digital humanities may still be a mystery to many on campus there is one place that is attempting to promote the still nascent field. The Digital Humanities Center in the College of Arts & Sciences at K-State, DHCenter@KSU for short, is an English Department initiative that looks to explore and encourage humanities research and teaching in our digital world.

As the Digital Humanities Coordinator and Blake Archive Continue reading “Exploring the Digital Humanities” →

Student Spotlight: Two biology graduate students earn NSF honors

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By Kaylee Engle
Communications Student Assistant

Two Kansas State University College of Arts & Sciences students have received awards and recognition from the National Science Foundation.

Matthew Galliart, graduate student in biology, Hutchinson, Kan., State, received a 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Ryan Greenway, also a graduate student in biology, Amarillo, Tex., received an honorable mention from the foundation.

The Graduate Research Fellowship award recognizes outstanding students Continue reading “Student Spotlight: Two biology graduate students earn NSF honors” →

Student Spotlight: Biology graduate student to attend Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

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Passow 200x200By Jennifer Tidball
K-State Today

A Kansas State University doctoral student will spend part of her summer interacting with Nobel laureates in physics, physiology, medicine and chemistry.

Courtney Passow, a doctoral student in biology from Round Rock, Texas, will attend the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany. Passow is one of 672 young scientists selected worldwide to attend the meeting.

The Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings invited Passow to attend Continue reading “Student Spotlight: Biology graduate student to attend Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting” →