Frontier Newsflash
| Homeland Security Funding Ensures K-State Scientists’ Continued Work in Homeland Security and Food Defense Education |
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MANHATTAN, Kan. – A group of Kansas State University food scientists will continue their work in educating current and future leaders in homeland security and food defense, thanks to renewed funding from the Department of Homeland Security. Read the entire article at the K-State Research and Extension News website. |
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This month in history
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During 14-18 July 1863, one of the first international veterinary conferences was convened in Hamburg. Organized by the Edinburgh-based Dr. John Gamgee, the International Veterinary Congress was devoted to cross-border disease control and, in particular, the troubling spread of rinderpest. Rinderpest, also known as the cattle plague, was a growing concern in western Europe; two years later (and as Dr. Gamgee anticipated), rinderpest would spread to Great Britain. |








