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By MEGAN MILLERK-State NewsMANHATTAN — Three Kansas State University doctoral candidates have received Sarachek awards for their academic an

A pipeline operator has put a damaged section in Kansas back into service, a little more than three weeks after a spill dumped 14,000 barrels of crude oil into a rural northern Kansas creek...Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has banned the use of the social media app TikTok on state-issued devices....and Douglas County is planning public meetings on proposed revisions to wind farm regulations. Details on these stories and more are available here.

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has become one of the first Democratic governors to ban the use of TikTok on state-issued devices...researchers at Kansas State University are hoping that gene editing techniques can turn cover crops into a source of biofuel without displacing food crops...and Lawrence Transit will offer free bus rides in 2023. Details on these stories and more can be found here.

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Kansas State University researchers are part of a five-year collaborative grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to improve oilseed crops for use as biofuels and other bioproducts. Timothy Durrett, associate professor of biochemistry...