The goal of this project was to provide opportunities for our Fort Hays students to apply lessons learned in engineering and to develop problem solving skills. We have set out to construct a set of five robots that will cooperatively solve problems; engaged in playing soccer. This project has challenged our students in the area of electrical and mechanical engineering as well as computer science. We intend to send a team of students with our robots to compete against other collegiate teams.

Service-learning projects have been implemented in the following courses: Soils, Cereal, Fiber and Oils Crops, Agronomic Crop Insects, Soil Fertility and Fertilizers, and Home Horticulture. The intent is to reinforce academic principles by tying them into community needs.

Examined gene flow between two species in a narrow zone of hybridization.

As part of a systematic revision, it was necessary to locate the original type locality and designate a neotype.

This will be a lengthy systematic monograph for the species group.

The two taxa of pocket gophers have variously be interpretted as species or subspecies. Examination of the results of gene flow will resolve this problem.

A species of shrew in northeastern Kansas is completely surrounded by another species. We need to know its precise distribution in order to conserve it.

This bat species is rapidly expanding its distribution. This paper describes that expansion.

This manuscript describes abberant southward movement by a lynx.

The hard-bound book will be a lengthy publication on the kinds of mammals in Kansas, their distributions, and their natural history. The e-book will be an on-line digital atlas on those mammals.

This manuscript documents the precise distribution of this species relative to a competing species in western Kansas.

The manuscript summarizes recent records of these predators in Kansas.

This is an historical account of one of the biggest names in mammalogy.

Summarizes the history of mammalogy in Kansas by following growth of scientific collections.

not a research, rather a creative activity:
Oct. 20: Piano solo recital in Bad Zwesten, Germany
Nov. 2: Piano solo recital sponsored by the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe. St. Martin-in-the-fields Cathedral in London, UK
Nov. 10: Performance of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto with Thuringen Philharmonie conducted by Herman Breuer. Bad Zwesten, Germany

In the fall of 2004 the educational administration program faculty at Fort Hays State University (FHSU) began an extensive review of our principal preparation program. This article examined current educational leadership literature, explained the methodology and model used to “reinvent� the FHSU Educational Administration program, and addressed the action steps taken to transform a traditional university program into a technology-rich principal preparation program, which helps new administrators better serve their teachers and students. A key element of the process was the commitment of faculty to reflect throughout the process, consider their own individual technology needs and actions throughout the study, and alter those actions when necessary. The process of reinventing the principal preparation program at FHSU was and continues to be a collaborative action research process that investigates the technology literacy training building principals need related to their role as instructional leaders.