* K-State students Jennifer Crainshaw, Olathe, and Samuel Brinton, Perry, Iowa, received 2008 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships, an honor worth up to $5,000 for study abroad. Crainshaw is studying in Ghana and Brinton in China. The Gilman asks winners to propose a service project to promote study abroad after they return. More than 1,200 scholarships of up to $5,000 will be awarded this academic year for U.S. citizen undergraduates to study abroad. K-State has been competitive among other universities for Gilman scholarships. With these two latest winners, 22 K-State students have won Gilman scholarships since the award's inception in 2002. August 2008
* Elizabeth Holste, Ludell, a May 2008 bachelor's graduate in history, received a Fulbright scholarship to teach English to high school students in Mainz, Germany, during the 2008-09 school year. July 2008
* One current and one recently graduated engineering student from Kansas State University have received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Three K-State seniors also received honorable mentions.
The fellowship awards a $30,000 stipend and a $10,500 cost-of-education allowance per year for three years of education, totaling about $120,000 over three years for students pursuing research-based master's or doctoral degrees in an engineering or science discipline. Winners are Emily A. Voigt, McPherson, senior in chemical engineering with a minor in German, and David Thompson, formerly of Burlingame, a 2006 K-State summa cum laude graduate in electrical engineering with an emphasis in biomedical engineering and minors in physics and Japanese. Thompson is currently a graduate student at the University of Michigan. In 2006 while at K-State, he received an honorable mention for the Graduate Research Fellowship he won this year. Named to receive honorable mention were seniors Amir Bahadori , Kansas City, Kan., majoring in mathematics and mechanical engineering; Amy Twite, Olathe, majoring in biochemistry, microbiology and chemistry; Lydia (Roberts) Barrigan, Pomona, senior in chemistry and biochemistry with a minor in biology. All plan to graduate from K-State in May. April 2008
* Three K-State students are recipients of 2008 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, while a fourth student has been recognized as an honorable mention for the award. The winners are Michelle Higgins, Manhattan; William Carlson, Overland Park; and Scott McCall, Parker Colo. Samuel Fahrenholtz, Tribune, received honorable mention honors. The three K-State students are among 321 students from across the nation to receive the Goldwater Scholarship this year, which are awarded for academic merit. The scholarships are worth up to $7,500 annually for a student's final one or two years of undergraduate studies. This year's recipients were selected from a field of 1,035 mathematics, science and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide. With three Goldwater recipients this year, K-State students have now won 63 Goldwater Scholarships. K-State remains first in the nation among state universities in Goldwater Scholarship winners. Among all universities, K-State is tied for third place with Duke. Princeton has 68 and Harvard has 67 Goldwater scholars. All three of K-State's newest Goldwater scholars plan careers in research. March 2008
* K-State students Kathryn Glanville, Oskaloosa , Mark McCreary, Wichita, and Ruth Ruggles, Winfield, have each received a 2008 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, an honor worth up to $5,000 for study abroad. More than 1,100 students nationwide applied for as many as 400 scholarships. The scholarship is part of a congressionally funded program offered through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. Twenty K-State students have now won Gilman scholarships since the award's inception in 2002. February 2008