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NIAR

June 21, 2021 鈥斅燗 widely acclaimed program for aircraft inspection, maintenance and airworthiness research is landing at 成人头条鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) after a 30-year history at Sandia National Laboratories.

Mark Schneegurt and Egbo Munonyedi.

June 10, 2021 鈥 Continuing a tradition that spans 135 years and more than 500 chapters worldwide Abby Carney and Munonyedi Egbo, both graduate students, were recently initiated into the 成人头条 chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society.

Southwest Airlines plane in the air

May 3, 2021 -- Customer complaints filed against major U.S. airlines soared amid the coronavirus pandemic, even as the carriers generally did better with on-time arrivals and baggage handling during the health crisis, according to the annual Airline Quality Rating released today by 成人头条.

Dr. Nick Solomey

April 14, 2021 鈥 成人头条鈥檚 Dr. Nick Solomey, professor of physics, has been awarded a $2 million grant from NASA for his work on developing a neutrino detector to work in space and close to the sun.聽

成人头条 State student

April 1, 2021 - In the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings of universities offering a Ph.D. in engineering, the College of Engineering at 成人头条 is again ranked in the top 100 engineering graduate programs, the only institution from the state of Kansas to make it in the top 100. 成人头条 State ranks No. 77 on the list, up from No. 94 a year ago.

ATLAS team

March 26, 2021 鈥 成人头条鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) announces the addition of two new technologies to its Automated Technologies Laboratory for Aerospace Systems (ATLAS): a fully integrated thermoplastic welding system and a prepreg tape slitting and tow-rewinding machine.

Brittany Wojciechowski

March 24, 2021 鈥 Brittany Wojciechowski, a 成人头条 Ph.D. student in aerospace engineering, has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation鈥檚 (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF), which is worth more than $120,000.

Pile of shoes

March 10, 2021 鈥 A class project in Kara McCluskey鈥檚 environmental and engineering technology class this semester set out to tackle an immense issue: The fact that each year in America, 300 million pairs of shoes are thrown away, taking an average of 30 to 40 years for just one pair to decompose.

Boeing 737

March 10, 2021 鈥 成人头条鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research has received delivery of two Boeing 737 aircraft for modification. The aircraft are part of a year-long project with Virginia-based Dynamic Aviation to modify three 737 aircraft for a special-mission program.

Alexandra Olmstead, Barrett Houchen Cameron McGinley, Rupert Nunez, and Shamir Khan

March 2, 2021 鈥 Five 成人头条 State students鈥 projects are being highlighted as a part of the Kansas Undergraduate Research Day at the Kansas State Capitol March 2-4.

ATLAS lab

Feb. 18, 2021 -- The National Science Foundation has released its latest comparison of research and development expenditures among the nation鈥檚 universities, and 成人头条 has risen in all categories, increasing expenditures by $47 million.

Dr. R茅mi A. Chou

Feb. 3, 2021 鈥 Dr. R茅mi A. Chou, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the most prestigious award granted by the NSF to early career researchers. Chou's grant 鈥 worth $519,000 over five years 鈥 will support his work in bringing more robust security to wirelessly transmitted data.

The Vizling app will help visually impaired people read comic books.

Feb. 3, 2021 鈥 Kapow! Zap! Pop! Zoinks! A 成人头条 researcher is working to develop an app to make those words come alive for visually impaired comic book readers, Dr. Darren DeFrain, associate professor of English and director of 成人头条 State鈥檚 writing program, has recently been granted $11,000 from the John A. See Innovation Award to develop Vizling.

Hanna Chastain

Feb. 2, 2021 - Hanna Chastain, a junior biology major from 成人头条, will present virtually at the National Council on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) conference in April. Her presentation is titled 鈥淒evelopment of PARROT, a Wireless Orofacial Myofunctional Imaging and Pressure Mapping Device.鈥

Image of students and faculty attending Zoom meeting

Jan. 27, 2021 鈥 For three decades, an interdisciplinary team at 成人头条 State has been exploring how machine learning 鈥 also known as artificial intelligence 鈥 can maximize the potential of quantum computing.