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Snap Benfit Restrictions on Drug Offenders
No full textIn this paper, I will address the SNAP restrictions for drug offenders in various states. Although the restrictions are federally upheld, many states have opted to adopt their own laws, or abolish the restrictions altogether. The purpose of this paper is to analyze trends of those effected by SNAP benefit restrictions on drug offenders and evaluate future policy solutions. We will begin by discussing the history of the SNAP drug offender ban, beginning in 1996. Next, we will analyze the effects this ban has had on drug offenders, both in the past and present. Finally, we will look at a close case study of Texas and Florida.
Preceding the established background, the paper will include my own solutions to the SNAP ban on drug offenders. These findings are backed by significant research and can be used to provide guidance to future legislators. This paper was presented to the Food Security Scholar Program at Kansas State University in order to facilitate discussion and future change
"You're just making up sounds" Radical Creative Possibilities Through Translanguaging in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
No full textKirmser Undergraduate Research Award - Continued Research category, grand prizeAnne LongmuirIn the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once (EEAAO) the protagonist, Evelyn, utilizes language to dismantle Asian stereotypes perpetuated in film. Through her multilingualism and learner variety of English, Evelyn has the power to control and create situations or other universes while establishing herself as the hero of the story. Though Evelyn transforms emotionally and through alternate versions of herself, her language skills remain consistent throughout the film asserting that her multilingualism and learner variety of English is not a hinderance, but a strength that is integral to who she is. This sociolinguistic analysis contributes to conversations on what roles language plays in reinforcing or subverting negative stereotypes in modern film. By deconstructing and subverting stereotypes of Asian characters, multilingualism, and learner varieties of English within film, EEAAO expands on what it means to speak a learner variety, what it means to be Asian American, and what it means to be a hero
2024 Annual Report Kansas Forest in Focus: Protecting, Educating, and Celebrating
No full textThis publication is an annual report of the services provided and a summary of the 2024 Kansas Forest Service's operating year
RPT112_2024_02
No full textK-State Research and Extension's program report for 2022-2023. This report to a variety of stakeholders illustrates the statewide extension work for the programming year
The Ellis Trail to Nicodemus: Revealing Stories in the Landscape of Black Westward Settlement - Discovery Phase Design Plan
No full textNicodemus, Kansas, is the longest continuously inhabited, Black townsite west of the Mississippi River. The townsite of Nicodemus remains today as home to approximately twenty-four persons, who act as stewards of their historical legacy with support from thousands of former residents and descendants of the families of those freed people who settled in Nicodemus in the 1870s. Nicodemus represents the achievements of a group of formerly enslaved people who entered the West to experience freedom, autonomy, and homesteading through the establishment of their own town.
The Nicodemus Historical Society & Museum’s (executive director, Angela Bates) original research has deepened understanding of the Ellis Trail to Nicodemus, a foot path and separate wagon trail used by newcomers to Nicodemus traversing the rolling grassland bluffs from the Ellis train station to their new home thirty-five miles away. The Nicodemus Historical Society & Museum has pieced together the trail route through painstaking research of recorded oral histories, photographs, and new interviews with descendants of Nicodemus settlers and white settlers along the Trail route. During the two-year National Endowment of the Humanities, Discovery Phase project, Nicodemus Historical Society & Museum worked with faculty members at Kansas State University and other humanities and digital media advisers to reveal this little-known aspect of Nicodemus’s history.
This project interprets the cultural landscape of the Ellis Trail, a now invisible route winding through mid-grass prairie, down wooded riparian ravines, and along limestone bluffs; the wagon trail is sometimes visible as traces and sometimes now replaced by roadways.
The product of this project is a thorough design plan for the digital product, an interactive website for viewers (a broad online audience ranging from middle school youth to adults) to understand the journey the first Nicodemus settlers took by wagon and on foot to the townsite. The website’s pages will also be connected to the physical landscape with an auto-tour along the Ellis Trail route, using smart codes to offer in-depth information about the settlers’ experience and the landscape’s hidden narrative.
This Design Plan focuses upon specific humanities themes to be included, the visual and audio-visual assets to include, and a thorough site map for the website
Telepresence in Ecuador
Full text linkEllner, MarkThe Telepresence in Ecuador project served to analyze and gain an understanding of virtual education with an emphasis in building relationships with students and English language acquisition. The project was completed through a partnership with Kansas State University and ULEAM in Manta, Ecuador. An honors section of Educational Technology (EDCI 318) took on the project, using Double 2 robots to access the Ecuadorian classrooms. The K-State students in the class were split into pairs and assigned a school. The K-State students focused on improving the English pronunciation and vocabulary of the Ecuadorian students through the use of literature circles, games, and conversation. The project found that conversation with the students not only helped to improve their pronunciation as they listened to native English speakers, but it also rapidly built relationships and trust with the students. This project focuses on the qualitative experiences of the authors rather than the quantitative data, as the project was still in its early stages when the authors were involved. https://youtu.be/QRrAnActls
A Kinome RNAi Screen Reveals Genes Required for Muscle Tissue Maintenance
Full text linkNUAK is an AMPK-related kinase which controls autophagy (cellular recycling) of an important linker protein in muscle called Filamin1. The absence of NUAK prevents the turnover of Filamin, presents an accumulation of autophagic markers such as p62 and ATG8 and leads to muscle degeneration. The goal of our research was to determine which other kinase genes might be required to regulate autophagy by turning them off with RNA interference (RNAi) and looking for abnormal muscle structure and attachment. 25 candidate kinase genes were selected and turned off in the muscle of Drosophila melanogaster larvae using RNAi. The larvae were then dissected and imaged under a laser confocal microscope to observe muscle structure. Knockdown of seven kinase genes yata, nippedA, CDK9, for, RIOK1, lic, and Vps15 showed abnormal muscle structure such a detachment and muscle thinning. These kinase genes will be further analyzed for their requirement in the proper autophagy of Filamin
RPT108_2023_01
No full textThis informal report to the Kansas Legislature summarizes the wide-ranging impact of K-State Research and Extension in 2023, highlighting initiatives in agriculture, environmental stewardship, public health, and community development across Kansas
Combatting the “great discontent”: the impact of employability culture and leadership empowerment on career growth, loyalty and satisfaction
No full textPurpose
Motivated by the organizational challenge coined the great discontent, employees are dissatisfied with their jobs, see minimal opportunities for growth and are actively searching for new roles. This research aims to take a novel approach to internal communication strategy by introducing employability culture and leadership empowerment as mechanisms for supporting employees' career growth and additional positive workplace outcomes.
Design/methodology/approach
An online survey was designed and administered in the United States. The final sample size includes 425 full-time employees working in a variety of roles, industries and work arrangements.
Findings
Findings point to the inherent need for revised internal communication strategy that goes beyond managing and disseminating information. Organizations must develop cultures and their leaders in ways that empower employees and help them understand the meaning of their work. Employability culture, or an organization's support for developing employees' adaptive skills as work roles change, positively predicted employees' perceptions of their career growth opportunities at their current place of employment, employee loyalty and engagement, and job satisfaction. Leadership empowerment behaviors also positively predicted all previously listed workplace variables. These perceptions as influenced by work arrangement (onsite, hybrid, fully remote) and younger versus older generations were also analyzed.
Originality/value
Research findings offer new strategies for internal communications. Internal communication teams can partner alongside executive leadership to develop a culture that helps employees envision how their skills and expertise translates to different areas of the organization, empowering them to find meaning in their work, and be driven to support organizational growth
