Kansas State University

• Voices of #KSUASI: Catch our October podcast episodes of Voices of #KSUASI on your favorite podcast platform! This past week, we spotlighted the journeys of two transfer students and their paths to K-State. You won’t want to miss their inspiring stories
  • Logan Topp: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-tmbhr-1714e82
  • Emma Balisky: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-pen36-1714e8c
• New Faculty Member: Dr. Ahmed Hammam comes to us from a current position in the dairy processing industry. He earned his PhD at SDSU a few years ago. Ahmed will be in the position of Assistant Professor of Dairy Processing and Innovation, with a start date of 11/11/2024. Please feel free to reach out and welcome Ahmed, his wife Preksam, and their children Alma and Adam to our ASI family! You can contact him by email at ahmed.hammam@jacks.sdstate.edu.

• Operation Santa: The Department of Animal Sciences & Industry will be participating in Operation Santa this holiday season. Operation Santa has been helping military families at Ft. Riley for 40 years. Each family receives 2 toys for each child; a Christmas stocking with stocking stuffers for each child; and a game or puzzle for each family. The gifts are wrapped and delivered to the families beginning Dec. 4 through Dec. 25^th . Last year Operation Santa served 850 military families: between 1700-1800 children.

  If you would like to participate in the donation, please bring your monetary gift or a new toy(s) to one of these locations:

  ASI Business Office 232 Weber Hall; Call Hall Business Office 139 Call Hall; or Food Science Institute Office, Call Hall 216.

  Any money collected will be given to Operation Santa coordinators to purchase items that are needed.  Donations will be collected until 5:00 p.m. December 2, 2024.

• Blood Drive: Donate Blood on Friday, December 6 in Dykstra Hall from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. To make an appointment email, Marci Ritter (mritter@ksu.edu).

• Plan to join us Wednesday, November 20 to leave your mark and sign a beam that will go in the new Bilbrey Event Center. This construction milestone will be celebrated from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. at the Stanley Stout Center (2200 Denison Ave) as a come-and-go event. Please RSVP by November 13 at kstate.ag/Bilbreybeamsigning.
• Join President Richard and First Lady Sally Linton for a spook-tacular day of fun on Oct. 31 – K-State students are invited to Trick-or-Treat with the Lintons at the President’s Residence. Mark your calendars for Oct. 31 from 9-11 a.m. and 2-4 p.m. — you won’t want to miss this.

  President Richard and First Lady Sally Linton will be hosting a costume contest where the Lintons will be the judges. The two students with the best costumes will each win a gift card to the K-State Campus Store. Whether you’re going for spooky, funny or downright creative, we can’t wait to see what you come up with. Additionally, there will be plenty of free treats to enjoy throughout the event. We can’t wait to see you there to celebrate Halloween in style!

• Save the Date – Friday, November 15th 9:15am-10:00am KSU Student Union, Big-12 Room (+Zoom)

  KSU President Linton and Provost Mendez will meet with all College of Ag leadership, faculty, and staff on Friday, November 15, 2024, from 9:15-10:00am at the KSU Student Union (Big 12 Room). We will ensure that a zoom connection is available for those that cannot attend in person.

• Fall Animal Sciences & Industry Professional Apparel – NOW OPEN! You can customize and purchase your items through the following link:KSU Animal Science Graduate Student Association Apparel Order. The order window will be open from October 14 through October 31. Please note that payment is required at the time of purchase. All items will arrive before finals weeks in December.
• Cheese Box: Cheese box order forms are now available here –

  Please turn in all orders before November 22nd, this will give us time to ship all orders by December 6th. Cheese Box Order Form 2024[12]

UPCOMING DEFENSE

• Firman Nasiu, “In vitro Screening of Sorghum Parent Lines for Digestibility as a Step Toward Development of Superior Sorghum Hybrids for Cattle Feeding” – Friday, November 1 at 2 p.m. in 205 Call Hall
• Max Corso, “Effects of water quality, acidification, and zinc source on growth performance of nursery and finishing pigs” – Friday, November 1 at 1 p.m. in Call Hall 205.
• Rachael Skinner, “Effects of high protein corn co-product as a replacement for soybean meal in calf starter grains.” – Thursday, October 31 at 1 p.m. in 206 Call Hall

UPCOMING SEMINARS

• Monogastic Seminar
  • Paula Giacomini, Wednesday, October 30 – “Strategic use of copper on nursery and grow-finishing pigs.” – Weber 111 at 12:30 p.m.
  • Jessica Smallfield, Wendesday, November 13 – “Mode of action of organic acids and impacts of performance” – Weber 111 at 12:30 p.m.
• Ruminant Nutrition, Growth, and Management Seminar
  • JONN Frey, Monday, November 4 – “Use of seaweed as an enteric methane mitigation strategy” – Call Hall 205 at 4:30 p.m.
  • Jeremy Davies, Monday, November 11 – “Trace mineral bioavailability: organic and inorganic complexes” – Call Hall 205 at 4:30 p.m.
• Reproductive Physiology, Breeding, and Genetics 
  • Sydney Tastad-Flax, Tuesday, October 29 at 8:30 a.m. on Call Hall 205 – “The Role of Leptin in Beef Cow Reproduction: From Metabolism in Maternity” Seminar Fall ’24 FLyer
  • Maria Eugenia Gaya Macaneiro, Tuesday, November 5 at 8:30 a.m. at Call Hall 205 – “Social dynamics in pigs: The influence of contest outcomes, behavioral lateralization, and feeding conditions” Maria Eugenia Gaya Macaneiro Seminar Flyer

CONSTRUCTION

• It’s an exciting time on campus. Bookmark our construction page to follow how changes are occurring around Weber and Call Halls and up by the Stout Center with the construction of the Bilbrey Family Event Center.
  https://www.asi.k-state.edu/construction.html

OPEN POSITIONS:

Professor (Assistant/Associate/Full) Position(s): 

None at this time.