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WASHINGTON, April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A joint team of graduate students representing Kansas State University, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the University of Kansas has been selected as the winner of the 2013 Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. This unique three-university team took the $50,000 top prize with their proposed long-term development plan for a downtown Minneapolis site adjacent to the new Minnesota Vikings Stadium location....

MANHATTAN, Kan., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Kansas State Cars and Briggs Auto Group have announced they will be hosting a Customer Appreciation Night Friday, April 12, 2013 at Briggs Nissan in Manhattan, located at 2500 Stagg Hill Rd., Manhattan, KS 66502. Briggs Customer Appreciation Night will be held between the hours of 4p.m. and 6p.m. with plenty of excitement and activities for the whole family. There will be free food and refreshments including Hot Dogs, Popcorn,...

MANHATTAN, Kan., March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The season may have come to a bitter-sweet end for the Wildcats with last Friday's 61-63, second-round upset at the hands of La Salle Explorers. The run is over and it's bitter for all of us across the Wildcat region, but there's still a Big 12 Championship for our Wildcat men's basketball team and the Wildcat women are still in the hunt, hosting Illinois State today in the second round of the 2013 WNIT tournament. It's been a...

MANHATTAN, Kan., Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- This year marks a tremendous achievement for Kansas State University as it celebrates 150-years of academic excellence. As the first land grant institution and Kansas' first public university K-State has served as a source for innovative education and research that is know the world over. From the first year with 52 students to today, with over 23,000 students from all 50 state and 90 countries across the world, Kansas State...

MANHATTAN, Kan., Jan. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Kansas State Cars is proud to be a part of what was an impressive year for the K-State Alumni Association. The record breaking year included the third straight year of increased participation at association events including closing the 2011-2012 Wildcat football season with nearly 20,000 Wildcat fans attending the pep rally before the Cotton Bowl, though sadly the Wildcats lost. (Photo:...

A Kansas State University-led study has uncovered new information that helps scientists better understand the complex workings of cells in the innate immune system. The findings may also lead to new avenues in disease control and prevention. Philip Hardwidge, associate professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology, was the study's principal investigator. He and colleagues looked at the relationship between a bacterial protein and the innate immune system -- a system of defensive cells...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. James Coffman, former dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University (KSU) and an expert in leadership development, has been chosen to deliver the 2013 Recognition Lecture at the AAVMC Annual Conference in Alexandria, Va., on Saturday, March 9. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130116/DC43732) The Recognition Lecture is an annual honor given by the AAVMC to an individual whose leadership and...

OLATHE, Kan., Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kansas Bioscience Authority unanimously approved the naming of Duane Cantrell to serve as its president and CEO, KBA Board Chairman Dan Watkins announced today. Cantrell is currently managing partner of Genus Consulting, LLC, a retail consulting firm. Prior to that, he worked at Payless ShoeSource, Inc., for 26 years, serving as the company's president from 2001-04. "Duane brings a wealth of executive experience to KBA's efforts to...

Kansas State University researchers have discovered a molecule that may be capable of delivering drugs inside the body to treat diseases. For the first time, researchers have designed and created a membrane-bounded vesicle formed entirely of peptides -- molecules made up of amino acids, the building blocks of protein. The membrane could serve as a new drug delivery system to safely treat cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. A study led by John Tomich, professor of biochemistry at...

A Kansas State University-led quantum mechanics study has discovered a new bound state in atoms that may help scientists better understand matter and its composition. The yet-unnamed bound state, which the physicists simply refer to as "our state" in their study, applies to three identical atoms loosely bound together -- a behavior called three-body bound states in quantum mechanics. In this state, three atoms can stick together in a group but two cannot. Additionally, in some cases, the...