Mudge Week - 2014
On 7-12 April 2014 we celebrated our Annual Mudge Week. Benjamin Franklin Mudge (right) was one of the first faculty to teach at what was then the Kansas State Agricultural College, later Kansas State University, starting in 1865. He taught the first entomology course at Kansas State ("Insects Injurious to Vegetation"), and it was also the first economic entomology course taught anywhere in the United States. He also taught courses in astronomy, physics, meteorology, botany, zoology, physiology, mineralogy, geology, physical geography, agricultural chemistry, among others. He was beloved by students, so it is entirely appropriate that we have a week of student-centered activities named in his honor. To learn more about this remarkable man, read this memorial written two years after his death in 1879.
2014 Mudge Week Activities and Schedule
7 April |
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7 April |
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| 9 April |
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| 11 April |
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| 12 April |
- Scholarship recipients - Perry L. Adkisson Three-minute competition winners (MS and PhD)
- Club MVP (most valuable Popenoe) - Faculty of the Year |
Scholarship Winners for 2014:
| Scholarship | Winner | Amount | |
| Fred Clute Scholarship | Alice Harris (PhD) | $500 |  |
| Floyd Holmes Scholarship | Barbara Amoah (PhD) | $500 |  |
| Reginald H. Painter Scholarship | Darren Snyder (PhD) | $400 |  |
| Joe Pankaskie Scholarship | Josh Urban (PhD) | $600 |  |
| Sonny and Gita Ramaswamy Scholarship | Lina Aguirre-Rojas (PhD) | $1,000 |  |
| Roger C. Smith MS Scholarship | Moustapha Soumaila Issa | $500 |  |
| Roger C. Smith PhD Scholarship | Dong Hun "Andy" Kim | $500 |  |
