News Archive for 2021
January 20, 2021
Adelaide Klutse, master’s student in Applied Family science, has been awarded a $1,000 grant from the graduate school to study how teachers are facilitating the socio-emotional development of children ages zero through eight during the COVID-19 pandemic. She aims to understand how stress and coping influences the facilitation of this development and to gain knowledge […]
January 19, 2021
Mindy Markham, associate professor of applied human sciences, along with three other researchers, all with K-State ties, was awarded the Outstanding Research Journal Article of the Year by the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education. The article, Financial transparency scale: Its development and potential uses, came from the master’s thesis done by Emily Koochel. […]
January 14, 2021
Bronwyn Fees elected to Board on Human Sciences’ Board of Directors
Bronwyn Fees, associate dean and professor, has been elected to the Board of Directors for the Board on Human Sciences within the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. The board term will last three years and begin this fall. The Board on Human Sciences, Inc. is an association of administrators of higher education units responsible […]
January 13, 2021
A team of Kansas health leaders known as the Kansas Community Health Work Partnership, or KCHWP, has been selected for the 2021 cohort of the National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health, or NLAPH. The competitive selection will result in the team having a year-long experience with national health leaders, coaching, leadership assessment, and planning which […]
January 11, 2021
Johannes selected to serve as Kansas Health Foundation Distinguished Professor of Community Health
Elaine Johannes, associate professor and extension specialist in the Department of Applied Human Sciences in the College of Health and Human Sciences, will serve as the Kansas Health Foundation Distinguished Professor in Community Health, an endowed position held by K-State Research and Extension, or KSRE. The professorship was awarded by the Foundation to Kansas State […]