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Successful End of Year Celebration
MANRRS, Promising Youth Center for Excellence, and 4-H Youth Development Center came together to commemorate the end of the school year A successful end-of-year send-off event was hosted by 2024-2025 MANRRS students from Kentucky State University (KSU). The event was held on campus to serve as a farewell to the outgoing academic year and as an opportunity for incoming agriculture students to connect with their peers before the fal...

KSU Alumnus Identifies the Most Effective Sensor for Plant Height Estimation in Soybean
Kentucky State University (KSU) alumnus, Lalit Pun Magar, is pioneering a new study in soybean. His research primarily focuses on integrating manual and high throughput aerial phenotyping to identify the most effective sensor, indices, and timing to study morphophysiological parameters and yield prediction in soybean. His research utilizes Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or drones (DJI Mavic 3M and DJI Matrice 300 RTK) mounted with advanc...

Governor Beshear Proclaims May as Skin Cancer Awareness Month, Honoring KSU’s Groundbreaking Work
Today, Thursday, May 15, at our Third Thursday Thing event held at the Kentucky State University Harold R. Benson Research and Demonstration Farm in Franklin County, we proudly joined with the Office of the Governor in recognizing May 2025 as Skin Cancer Awareness Month in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Governor Andy Beshear’s proclamation was read aloud during the event, recognizing Kentucky State University’s research and outreach...

Kentucky State’s Vinsetta Covington Selected for NCAA Women Coaches Academy Class #54
Kentucky State women’s basketball assistant coach Vinsetta Covington has been selected to participate in the NCAA Women Coaches Academy (WCA) Class #54, hosted by WeCOACH in partnership with the NCAA. The academy will be held May 18-21, 2025, in Denver, Colorado. Covington joins a distinguished group of 85 women coaches from across the country representing 24 different sports and all NCAA divisions, as well as coaches from NAIA, NJ...