History graduate student’s community project wins national award and grant
Holly Hill (left in photo), graduate student in history and graduate assistant with K-State’s Chapman Center for Rural Studies, is preserving Manhattan history through an internship with the Riley County Genealogical Society.
Holly is working with members of the society, including project leader Charlene Brownson, on a project to place historical markers along Manhattan’s Linear Trail. The project, “Walking Through History on the Linear Trail,” recently won an award and a grant from the Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area program.
The project entails creating 10 historical markers and installing them at trailheads along the 9.4-mile trail. Five markers were installed in summer 2024 and five more will be installed in summer 2025. Information about each marker is on the Chapman Center’s website.
The project won the FFNHA’s Judy Billings Most Valuable Project award for best communicating the theme “Shaping the Western Frontier,” as well as a grant to support it.
Pictured here with Holly Hill is Kim Wescott, office manager for both the Chapman Center and the department of sociology, anthropology, and social work.
Congrats to our Research and the State award recipients!
Several doctoral students in Arts and Sciences presented research posters at K-State’s Research and the State graduate student poster forum on Oct. 24.
Congrats on receiving an award from the Graduate School and being selected to represent K-State at the Capitol Graduate Research Summit on March 25!
- Zahirul Islam Saddam, chemistry
Developing next generation Li-S battery by tuning the active sites of MoS2/rGA catalysts
Congrats on receiving awards from K-State’s chapter of Sigma Xi in recognition of outstanding presentations!
- Oluchi Alaribe, microbiology
Role of cyclic diguanylate monophosphate in Clostridioides difficile physiology and virulence. - Vidya Nadar, chemistry
Maximizing drug transport in cancer and related bacterial infections