Microsoft 365
Word, Excel, Teams, OneDrive. Up to 5 devices while enrolled.
Webmail → App Launcher → Install Microsoft 365 apps → Organizational account.
Resource library
I kept losing track of this stuff, so I put it in one place. No obvious stuff. Only the less obvious, K-State specific, time sensitive, or easy to miss ones.
Looking for a starting point? Open Student Opportunities → Answer three questions and get the funding, tools, and help you can actually apply for, sorted by deadline. Nothing to upload. Independent student project.
Word, Excel, Teams, OneDrive. Up to 5 devices while enrolled.
Webmail → App Launcher → Install Microsoft 365 apps → Organizational account.
Gemini + Deep Research. Then $19.99/mo unless you cancel.
SheerID + payment method. Use a personal Google account. Storage: Google's current Google One plans page lists AI Pro at 5 TB. Confirm the student tier matches at checkout, since the student redemption page requires sign-in.
4 free months, then $20/mo unless you cancel.
Verified on OpenAI's own help page. Full-time or part-time at eligible US degree-granting institutions, SheerID verification, payment method required. Claim by Oct 31, 2026. Cancelling forfeits remaining free months. Store-billed subscriptions not supported.
Premium text to audio for PDFs and papers.
Gated by institution allowlist. K-State membership unconfirmed. If rejected, use request-access form. Auto-renews.
Dev tools, cloud credits, domains, learning resources.
Verify with school email. Activate time-limited offers only when ready to use them.
All IDEs free, renew yearly. PyCharm Pro + DataGrip.
Great for Python and SQL in bioinformatics. Apply with school email.
K-State HPC with Slurm, OpenOnDemand, Galaxy.
Free for eligible researchers. Annual renewal. Ends when you leave K-State.
Free food + hygiene pantry. No income check.
1+ credit hour. Register each semester with eID, Wildcat ID, and @k-state.edu email.
$100 credit for 12 months. No card. Renewable.
Unused credit does not roll over. Plus always-free services.
Free sequencing by competitive proposal.
Must fit DOE mission (energy / environment). Data is made public. Check proposal calls.
Genome annotation, MAGs, metabolic modeling.
DOE platform. Reproducible Narratives, no HPC needed.
Bacterial / viral comparative genomics.
RAST annotation, phylogeny, AMR. Jobs run on BV-BRC compute.
NSF data store, apps, VMs for life science.
Free account. Request Discovery Environment + Data Store at signup.
No-code reproducible genomics.
QC, mapping, assembly, QIIME. Public queues and quotas apply.
Compare public microbial genomes / metagenomes.
Upload your genomes for annotation. Data becomes public at publication.
$37k/yr + $16k/yr for 3 years. 1st / 2nd year only.
US citizen / national / permanent resident. Life Sciences deadline reported Oct 19, 2026.
3 to 12 months thesis research at a DOE lab.
Needs PhD candidacy + DOE lab collaborator. Stipend + travel. Due Nov 4, 5pm ET.
Up to 5 years for PhD dissertation stage.
Stipend figures conflict across sources. Check current NIH notice for your institute. 3 cycles per year.
Citation-network discovery from seed papers.
Free full features. Great for finding related work you missed.
Quick evidence synthesis.
Free tier for searches. Reported student discount on Pro.
Fast inference, free models. Quotas change often.
OpenRouter free: 50 req/day baseline. Do not paste unpublished work without checking data-use terms.
Figures, but Basic has no publication rights.
Use Servier, Bioicons, NIAID, Reactome for publishable figures. Check each icon licence.
Advising, fairs, Handshake, interview clothes.
Free for students. Check Handshake for jobs and internships.
Free peer financial counselling.
Budgeting, loan repayment, credit. Confidential.
Free therapy for students.
Funded in part by student fees. Confirm session limits and waitlist.
Conference travel grants.
Reported up to $750 domestic / $1,000 international. Apply at least 21 days before event.
1 full year free. Non-renewable.
Claim on web, not App Store. After year, $109/yr.
Free federal filing and volunteer tax prep.
Free File: AGI up to $89k for guided software. VITA Manhattan 2026 schedule unconfirmed.
Community food pantry in Manhattan.
Verify current hours and eligibility before going.
Audit free. Aid can unlock certificate.
Aid review can take around two weeks. Apply after enrolling in audit track.
Free workshops and bioinformatics modules.
Software / Data / HPC Carpentry lessons free online. EMBL-EBI Train Online self-paced.
Pick one bundle, not all three.
$5.99 to $6.99/mo reported. SheerID, re-verify yearly. Do not pay for Hulu separately if you take this.
$5.99/mo, TV+ included.
Up to 48 months total. UNiDAYS / SheerID verification.
6 mo free, then $7.49/mo.
Includes Prime Video, Music, Reading, photo storage, Grubhub+ on eligible orders. Auto-renews.
Skill Builder Premium 12 mo + badge rewards.
Credits and $100 cert voucher are badge-gated, not instant. Educate itself is training-only.
Education plans for figures and notes.
Figma 1 yr, Miro 2 yr, Notion Plus for 1-member workspace. Re-verify yearly.
Campus-wide site licences through K-State IT.
Sign in with your @k-state.edu portal credentials. Qualtrics is at kstate.qualtrics.com; MATLAB includes all major toolboxes.
Free attorney consults for leases, landlords, and tickets.
Have them review Manhattan apartment leases before you sign. Also offers free notary services for students paying the campus privilege fee.
Free fixed-route bus rides across Manhattan and campus.
Just swipe or show your Wildcat ID when boarding fixed routes and K-State Park & Ride shuttles.
Equipment loans, VR, 3D printing, and media booths in Hale.
First floor of Hale Library. Free access to specialized hardware; you only pay minimal material costs for 3D prints or large-format jobs.
Feedback on manuscripts, fellowship essays, and chapters.
Up to two 50-minute sessions per week in ECS 122D or online. Request a graduate consultant for thesis or grant drafts.
National HPC + GPU allocations when local queues fill up.
Explore allocations take minimal paperwork and give access to Anvil, Bridges-2, and Jetstream2 cloud VMs.
Structure prediction for proteins, DNA, RNA, and ligands.
AlphaFold 3 web server gives free daily jobs for non-commercial work. Use ColabFold for custom MSAs or batch scripting.
Cloud plasmid maps, primer design, and sequence alignments.
Sign up with your .edu email for the free academic tier. Much cleaner than juggling expired SnapGene trials.
30 hrs/week of free GPU (T4x2 or P100) with no card required.
More predictable than basic Google Colab disconnects. Includes persistent dataset storage and background batch execution.
Free experiment tracking and hyperparameter sweeps for ML.
Apply with your university email to unlock unlimited private projects and team collaboration for research labs.
Pain-free SSH and SFTP across lab machines and HPC.
Tailscale free personal tier connects up to 100 devices without port forwarding. Get Termius Pro free via the GitHub Student Pack for synced SSH keys.
Hallucination-resistant literature synthesis and paper feeds.
NotebookLM answers strictly from PDFs you upload (up to 50 sources per notebook). Pair with Semantic Scholar AI research feeds.
Bypass Zotero's 300 MB cloud PDF cap for free.
Sync metadata via Zotero for free, and use ZotMoov or Attanger to store the actual PDFs inside your K-State OneDrive folder.
Up to $1,000–$5,000 for research supplies or travel.
No US citizenship requirement, international students are eligible. Two cycles per year; higher caps if you or your advisor are Sigma Xi members.
Up to $180k total for ag, food, and microbial genomics PhDs.
Covers stipend, tuition, and research allowance for up to 3 years. Requires PhD candidacy and US citizenship or permanent residency.
Free indie/Criterion streaming, Libby audiobooks, and tools.
Any Manhattan resident or K-State student can get a card at 629 Poyntz Ave. Unlocks Kanopy streaming and the Library of Things.
$10 fall/spring, $5 summer. Balances do not carry forward.
At Hale, Sunderland Media Center, Union, Justin, Cardwell, Weigel. Re-confirm current semester on K-State IT printing page.
Laptops, cameras, lighting, AV, green screen.
Reserve at 785-532-4918 or itcheckout@k-state.edu. Pickup Hale Room 235. Bring eID, WID, K-State ID.
Text to speech, translation, vocab, scan to PDF.
Free for all K-Staters with eID. No disability documentation required per Access Center page.
Dual monitor stations for laptop users in Hale.
24 on 2nd floor, 6 on 3rd, 6 on 4th. USB-C hub + charging. Useful for long writing sessions.
Weekend films free with K-State ID.
UPC runs 100+ events per year plus game checkout. 2026 film schedule unverified, check UPC calendar before going.
Help for unexpected temporary financial obstacles.
Via Student Financial Assistance. Amount, cap, and timeline not confirmed. Ask SFA, do not assume a figure.
Emergency funds for car, medical, or exhausted aid.
Amount and application route not confirmed. Ask SFA or Foundation. Do not quote a figure.
KOAPF is closed. Use OA agreements, K-REx, New Prairie Press.
KOAPF permanently closed spring 2025. Ask ope@k-state.edu which publishers and APCs are covered.
Subsidized full-day care, if you are a parent.
Infants 6 weeks to 12 years. Mon-Fri 7am-5:30pm. Most families get at least one subsidy. Fees unverified.
Referrals for 25+, married, parents, veterans, returning students.
Referrals for admission, scholarships, childcare, housing, tutoring, health insurance. Referral service, not cash aid.
Free reagents for microbiology. Pay shipping only.
NIAID repository. Registration + MTA required. Research quantities only. Some items need permits.
Up to 5,000 euros for a 1-3 month visit.
PhD student or degree less than 5 years + FEMS Member Society member. European host in a country other than residence.
Up to 750 euros. Presenting author only.
Early career + FEMS Member Society member. FEMS sponsored meetings excluded, apply to the meeting organizer instead.
Registration waiver for FEMS MICRO Ljubljana 2027.
Early career, first author + presenter. Abstract + grant submissions Sep 2 to Dec 15, 2026, 11:59pm CET. Do not register until grant notification.
Up to 3 month industry placement. Amount unverified.
Deadlines conflict across sources: regulations show Feb 1 / Aug 1, older summaries show Jan 1 / Jul 1. Use current regulations PDF. Do not quote 5,000 euros, that is the other FEMS grant.
Up to 4,000 euros + free registration for ASM Microbe.
For 1 FEMS Full Member Society member to attend ASM Microbe in even years. Limited for US students unless they hold FEMS membership.
$500 to $10,000. Climate Change award is $10,000.
Feb 1 deadline, 2026 cycle passed. Diary for Jan 2027. Directly relevant if your work touches fungi or mycobiome.
Full registration waiver for first time GRC attendees.
Abstract required by the conference deadline. Eligibility rules vary by conference, verify on the specific GRC page.
1,400 euros per month + insurance + travel + 460 euros per year.
Doctoral programme in Germany, not a short visit grant. Possible rent and family subsidies. Only relevant if considering a German or bi-national PhD.
Up to $30,000 combined. Requires 1 year federal service after graduation.
US grad student. Language study must be integral. Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, Middle East only. Check K-State campus deadline.
Full year award for study, research, or teaching abroad.
National deadline Oct 6, 2026 has passed. Campus deadlines are earlier. Planning item for 2027, not claimable now.
Up to 6 months for theory and modelling visits.
Requires EMBL host agreement. Stipend amount not confirmed for this specific fellowship. Verify on EMBL official pages.
$25,000 grand prize. PhD degree required at entry.
Current PhD students without the degree are not eligible. File as a post-PhD target. 1,000 word essay, work from last 3 years.
APC waiver. Apply at submission, not after acceptance.
Fees billed on acceptance. Ability to pay is never a publication criterion. Editors have no access to payment info.
Deposit plasmids free. Request at academic prices.
Deposit is free, Addgene sequences and handles MTAs. Request example: plasmid agar stab $94 for academics. Many items academics only.
Unlimited public protocols with DOI. 2 private, 100 MB.
Free Open Research tier. Premium is $318.89 per user per year. K-State Premium not confirmed, check before paying.
Projects, preprints with DOI, preregistration.
Free account. Check journal policy before preprinting. K-State SSO unverified.
Scholarly + patent search. API terms conflict.
Free for research and academic use per secondary sources. API free vs paid is conflicting. Verify Lens Terms before building a pipeline.
Open source bioinformatics toolkit.
BLAST, MUSCLE, Clustal, HMMER, Bowtie, BWA, Primer3, workflow designer, BAM viewer, phylogenetics. Windows, Linux, macOS.
Free open source stats. Classical + Bayesian.
JASP has APA tables and OSF integration. jamovi has t-tests, ANOVA, regression, factor analysis, R integration. Not for genomics scale data.
30 day trial only. Do not start until a figure deadline is near.
Starting price $252 per year per secondary source. Older $168 figure conflicts. Verify on GraphPad pricing page. Prefer JASP or jamovi for routine stats.
Free Connect tier is thin. 7 day trial auto-enrolls.
Free: 25 MCP credits per month, no Assistant or Search. Do not enter payment details unless you intend to pay. Check K-State institutional access first.
Summarises papers into flashcards.
Extracts participants, methods, findings, limitations. Free version exists, daily limit unverified. Paid $7.99 per user per month per secondary sources.
Free GPU for demos. Quota is tiny and conflicting.
Free quota conflicts: 5 vs 3.5 min per day across HF doc versions. Max 2 ZeroGPU Spaces for free accounts, verified email, account over 30 days.
Free inference tiers. Verify limits on official pages.
Cerebras: secondary claims 1M tokens per day free, conflicts with earlier gone claim. SambaNova: persistent free tier + $5 credit, limits conflict. GitHub Models: free playground with rate limits.
Free tier. Credit figures conflict.
Secondary claims conflict: 1,000 credits vs 5,000 credits vs rate limit only about 40 RPM. Do not state any single figure as fact. Verify on build.nvidia.com.
$200 free credit, no expiry. About 43,000 min transcription.
Available until you use it up. Nova-3 $0.29 per hour monolingual streaming. For interviews, talks, captions.
$50 one time credit at signup, no card.
Older 100 hours free claim is likely stale, use $50. After credits, you need to upgrade.
Free tiers for side projects and lab tools.
Prisma: 200,000 ops per month, 50 DBs, no card, no backups. Convex: 0.5 GB storage, 1M calls per month. Deno and Koyeb free tiers exist, limits unverified.
Free academic writing tiers.
Paperpal free: 200 edits per month, 5 per day paraphrase and Q&A. Trinka Basic: 5,000 words per month. Writefull free tier exists, limits unverified.
Free tier + reported 50 percent student discount.
Free: light daily quota + unlimited Tab completions. Pro $20 per month. Student about $10 per month per secondary sources, verify on windsurf.com. Ownership changed in 2026, do not depend on Windsurf specific features.
Free open source coding assistants. BYOK for models.
Aider: terminal pair programmer, edits local git repo, commits each change. PearAI, Void, Tabby: free editors, local model support. Tool free, you pay model provider.
1,000+ free courses + badges in AI, data, cloud, cyber.
Free to enrol. Some IBM Professional Certificates may carry $200 to $300 fees per secondary sources, verify before starting a specific certificate.
Free CCNA pathway + reported 58 percent exam voucher.
Free self paced CCNA pathway + Packet Tracer. Voucher requires 70 percent final, survey, all activities. Exam $300 at Pearson VUE per secondary sources. Verify on netacad.com.
Foundational cyber courses free. Higher levels paid.
All courses free was a 2020 announcement, do not assume full catalogue is still free. Verify current Fortinet Training Institute pricing.
Free courses + free certs, free retakes.
All certifications completely free, no fee to register, take, or retake. 60 min exams, 80 percent pass, open book. Maps to pangenome graphs and RAG projects.
Free streaming and data certs. Verify time limits.
Confluent: 2 free certs, 30 questions, 60 min, online, not proctored. Databricks: 7 free accreditations + Student Fellows vouchers reported, verify on databricks.com.
$65 one time + $40 to $70 per session therapy.
40,000+ therapists, online or in person. For people who cannot afford market rates, household income below $100,000 per Open Path directory. Session fees go to therapist.
Free peer support. Not therapy.
Free 24/7 text chat with trained volunteer listeners. Not therapy, not counselling, not a distress line. Paid therapy about $150 per month per secondary sources.
Glasses discounts. Warby student discount not verified.
Zenni: 10 percent student per coupon sites, verify at checkout. Warby: no verified student programme found, conflicting claims. Warby Home Try-On: 5 frames free both ways.
Student pricing at box office with student ID.
Amount varies by theatre. Excludes special engagement films at Cinemark. Check local theatre for pricing and participation.
10 percent off at 4,000 hostels in 91 countries.
Membership price not confirmed. Non-members pay plus $3 per person per day at some US hostels. J1 visitors: 15 percent off with code STAYHI through Dec 31, 2026.
Free meditation apps.
Insight Timer: 260,000+ meditations free. Healthy Minds: completely free, science backed. UCLA Mindful: free audios, English and Spanish. Smiling Mind: free nonprofit.
Free workouts, nonprofit and ad free options.
Darebee: 2,000+ workouts, 50+ programmes, no ads. Fitness Blender: hundreds of free full length videos, free membership to save favourites.
Free ad supported streaming. No account needed for Tubi.
Tubi: 50,000+ titles. Pluto: 250+ live channels. Plex: 50,000+ titles + 600+ live channels free, Plex Pass is for your own media server, not for unlocking movies. PBS: free, some titles need Passport.
30 day trial then $9.99 per month per secondary sources.
Verify on MUBI student page. Trial auto-renews unless cancelled.