Entries tagged with "lecture"

Purdue food scientist to present two seminars on campus

Connie Weaver, member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine and distinguished professor at Purdue University, will present two seminars on food science Thursday, Sept. 8, on the K-State campus.

Entrepreneurship lecture series kicks off Sept. 8

The owners of Harry’s Uptown Restaurant in Manhattan and the president of Freddy’s Frozen Custard will be among the presenters at a lecture series that begins Sept. 8 on the K-State campus.

Dietitian Ellyn Elson to bring innovation, business savvy to Shugart Lecture April 6

Ellyn Elson has been called a hospitality industry dynamo. Add monikers such as creator of a multimillion-dollar food and nutrition software systems company, registered dietitian, passionate promoter of sustainability and author.

Soldiers to tell two stories of combat stress at Oct. 14 ‘wounded warrior’ lecture

Two soldiers; two stories of life and death. One is Capt. Joshua Mantz, felled by sniper in Baghdad in 2007, technically died. He flat-lined for 15 minutes before medical teams revived him. “I could feel myself starting to die,” he said. The other is Major Jeff Hall, two tours to Iraq, lost troops. He and his wife Sheri faced another deadly type of military trauma: suicide, traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder.

April 20 lecture: Living with dementia

A dementia and Alzheimer’s lecturer coming to Kansas State University will give a personal account of his life with the disease.

Hotel developer to present Shugart Lecture

Jack DeBoer, who developed the all-suite hotel concept, will present the 36th Annual Grace M. Shugart Lecture at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, April 8, in Forum Hall on the K-State campus.