Photo Gallery

Day 1: Deborah Dandridge, field archivist for the African-American collections in Spencer Research Library's Kansas Collection, speaks to the group at the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka.

Day 1: Ann Huppert, assistant professor of architecture; Rob Corser, assistant professor of architecture; and Brent Metz, assistant professor of anthropology, see the sights in downtown Wamego.

Day 1: Bob Honea, director of the Transportation Research Institute, inspects a disc at the Landoll Corporation in Marysville.

Day 1: Tour participants make their way through the manufacturing floor at the Landoll Corporation in Marysville. The business manufactures farm and transportation equipment that is sold around the world.

Day 1: The tour group congregates on the stage of the Brown Grand Theatre in Concordia.

Day 2: Rob Corser and Ann Huppert, assistant professors of architecture, try out an interactive display at the Grassroots Arts Center in Lucas.

Day 2: Ellen Averett, research assistant and professor of health policy and management, and Peter Smith, professor of physiology and director of the Mental Retardation Research Center, look at a display at the Grassroots Arts Center in Lucas that says, “Then came the fences.”

Day 2: Holly Goerdel, assistant professor of public administration, looks at the mechanism that carries grain to storage areas at a grain elevator in Palco.

Day 2: Saralyn Reece Hardy, director of Spencer Museum of Art, and John Green, associate director of the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center, look at a display of the work of Palco artist Omer Knoll, center, as he explains his craft.

Day 2: Dave Steeples, brother of Don Steeples, vice provost for scholarly support and Dean A. McGee Distinguished Professor of Applied Geophysics, demonstrates the finer points of a combine at the Steeples wheat farm.

Day 2: Don Steeples, vice provost for scholarly support and Dean A. McGee Distinguished Professor of Applied Geophysics, shows the group a bottle of oil, pumped fresh from the ground at a well near Palco.

Day 3: Chancellor Robert Hemenway and John Green, associate director of the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center, look at a display at the Prairie Museum of Arts and History in Colby. Hemenway joined the tour for two days.

Day 3: Yajaira Padilla, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese; Jorge Perez, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese; and Holly Goerdel, assistant professor of public administration, take a group photo at the Bronze Buffalo near Oakley.

Day 3: A group of tour participants get an up close look at a bison at the Duff Bison Ranch in Logan County.

Day 3: The group settles in for lunch at the fully restored Majestic Theatre Restaurant in Scott City.

Day 3: Tour participants visit the Cimarron Hotel in Cimarron before boarding the bus to travel to the next stop.

Day 3: Tour participants walk along a hail-covered boardwalk at the Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City. Golf ball-size hail delayed the tour of the museum about 10 minutes but did not cause serious damage.

Day 3: Mike Taylor, assistant professor of geology, buys a souvenir from a waitress at the Long Branch Saloon at the Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City, as Henry Bial, assistant professor of theatre and film, left, and the group take in a show.

Day 4: A group of tour participants look over flood waters that pooled in a yard near the Kansas Sampler Foundation in Inman.

Day 4: Janis Lariviere, project coordinator at the Center for Science Education, waves goodbye to the group before entering the Underground Salt Museum in Hutchinson with Saralyn Reece Hardy, director of the Spencer Museum of Art.

Day 4: Diann Burright, associate director of the University Advising Center, and Ann Huppert and Rob Corser, assistant professors of architecture, inspect a giant chunk of salt at the Underground Salt Museum in Hutchinson.

Day 5: Tour participants feed a group of alpacas at a farm near Hutchinson.

Day 5: Alpacas don’t shy away from groups, as this curious critter demonstrates.

Day 5: Mary Ellen Kondrat, dean of the School of Social Welfare, left, meets Carol Ritchie at the Ritchie family ranch in Lyon County. Scott and Carol Ritchie hosted the group for lunch and took participants on a nature walk through the Flint Hills prairie.

Day 5: The tour participants pose for a group photo overlooking the prairie at the Ritchie Ranch in Lyon County.

Day 5: Jeremy Martin, assistant professor of mathematics, snaps a photo of a native flower at the Ritchie Ranch in Lyon County.

Day 5: Mike Taylor, assistant professor of geology, managed to corral a horned frog during a nature walk at the Ritchie Ranch in Lyon County.