MANHATTAN, Kansas, Aug. 1 -- Kansas State University issued the following news: * * * Connecting entrepreneurs and communities K-State and partners have built an immersive experience to support entrepreneurship in rural Kansas. By Jennifer Tidball On a recent summer day in Kingman, visitors to Main Street could walk into The Rural Muse art gallery, Brick Road Coffee or Trinity Fitness. But instead of ordering a latte or starting a workout, they would instead find groups of people discussin  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Aug. 1 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: * * * Art historian brings to light Korean Buddhist temple design, decoration Eighteenth-century Buddhist monks in the Korean countryside took advantage of the artistic freedom that distance from the capital granted them to create immersive temple environments that elevated the spiritual lives of worshippers. Maya Stiller, associate professor in the Kress Foundation Department of Art History at the University of   more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Aug. 1 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: * * * Techniques honed by Kansas nuclear physicists helped detect creation of gold in Large Hadron Collider collisions Nuclear physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider recently made headlines by achieving the centuries-old dream of alchemists (and nightmare of precious-metals investors): They transformed lead into gold. At least for a fraction of a second. The scientists reported their results in Physical   more