Designing and Disseminating
Better Health and Nutrition
Practices
Digital Humanities Center
Enhancing
Well-Being
College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering,
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, and K-State Libraries
Building and
Protecting Global
Food Systems
Enabling Impactful
Technologies
DECODING NATURE
Kansas State University Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities and Discovery Strengths
Overview
The Digital Humanities Center at Kansas State University (DHCenter@KSU) is a scholarly initiative developed by the Department
of English to explore the application of impactful computing technologies in the humanities and to enhance well-being by
promoting humanities teaching and research in the digital environment.
DHCenter@KSU facilitates the creation and support of digital resources of significant scholarly
importance and broad public impact. It fosters interdisciplinary relationships and opportunities at
Kansas State and in collaboration with national and international research partners. Current partnerships
at K-State include: Department of English, Beach Museum of Art, K-State Libraries, Department of
Computer Science, and the Chapman Center for Rural Studies.
For more information, visit www.k-state.edu/english/dh/index.html or follow @DHKState on Twitter.
Impact
Digital projects provide public access to documents, artifacts, images, and interpretative resources for use in teaching and
research. Faculty, undergraduate students, graduate students, and staff at Kansas State contribute to the projects with support from
their home departments, institutional partners, and grant agencies.
Current projects include:
The William Blake Archive: Mark Crosby, Project Coordinator, English, Kansas State
American Poetry of the First World War: Tim Dayton, Project Coordinator, English, Kansas State; Lorie A. Vanchena, Project Coordinator, German Studies, University of Kansas
Gordon Parks’ The Learning Tree: Katherine Karlin and Cameron Leader-Picone, Project Coordinators, English, Kansas State
Things That Speak: American Everyday: Steffi Dippold, Project Coordinator, English, Kansas State
About Kansas State University
Kansas State University was established in 1863 as the nation’s first operational land-grant university. We’ve held firmly to the landgrant philosophy of serving our world through discovery and innovation. Today, the university is on its way to becoming a Top 50
public research university by 2025 through supporting, encouraging, and growing our research efforts.
1887 Agricultural Experiment Station
Important
points in time
for K-State
Research
1967 Alf Landon Lecture
built to analyze horticultural and
entomological subjects
1863 Kansas State University
1944 First U.S. patent application
founded
filed for a plastic container for
frozen foods
2015 National Bio and
Series on Public Issues
established
Agro-Defense Facility
groundbreaking
1997 Hale Library expansion
completed
$184.9 million in FY2014 research expenditures
RECENT SUCCESSES:
14 patents granted in 2014
$473.9 million
in FY2014 endowment
Office of the
Vice President for Research
4 USAID
Feed the Future Innovation Labs
1,000 research grants in FY2014
more than
4,300 graduate students
k-state.edu/research
@KState_RSCAD