Kansas
State University has in the works a five-building, $60-million Grain
Science Complex, which will be constructed on a 16-acre lot on the north
side of Kimball Avenue, directly across from the K-State football stadium.
Two of the buildings, a Bioprocessing and Industrial Value-Added Program
facility and the International Grains Program Executive Conference Center,
are already under construction and will be finished by March 2004. Coming
next are a feed mill, flour mill and Teaching, Research and Baking facility.
Brendan
Donnelly, head of K-State's grain science and industry department and
director of the international grains program, said the Grain Science
Complex will place the department and K-State as the premier university-based
post-harvest cereal-related teaching, research and outreach program
in the world.
"It
will provide modern facilities for undergraduate students to learn cereal
processing science and technology, improved facilities for faculty and
graduate students to conduct research and outstanding facilities for
outreach programs to the state, nation and world," he said. "The
combination of programs, people and facilities at this site will be
unparalleled at any university in the United States."
Following
is information about each of the buildings.
Bioprocessing
and Industrial Value-Added Program facility
K-State's
Bioprocessing and Industrial Value-Added Program facility a place
for K-State scientists, industry to turn state's crops into products
Quick
facts
Building
drawing and floor plan
Construction
photos
International
Grains Program Executive Conference Center
K-State’s
International Grains Program will help leaders become informed purchasers
and processors of U.S. food and feed grains
K-State
International Grains Program dedicates new conference center
Quick
facts
Building
drawing and floor plan
Construction
photos
Teaching,
Research and Baking Facility
Quick
facts
Feed
Mill
Quick
facts
Flour
Mill
K-State
to break ground on new flour mill, lab
Quick
facts
Bios
of K-State professors and administrators involved with the project
History
of grain science and industry at K-State
