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Thu, 05/25/2023 — Two doctoral candidates and one faculty member received honors during the 2023 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony at the University of Kansas. “I am extremely proud to recognize these three individuals for their contributions to scholarship and to the...

Thu, 05/25/2023 — Evan Franseen, professor of geology at the University of Kansas, senior scientific fellow at the Kansas Geological Survey and co-director of the Kansas Interdisciplinary Carbonates Consortium, is the recipient of the 2023 Honorary Membership...

Thu, 05/25/2023 — LAWRENCE – Fourteen University of Kansas School of Law students received awards during the spring 2023 semester for distinguishing themselves in scholarship, leadership and service to the law school and the community. The recipients:

Thu, 05/25/2023 — A team of University of Kansas researchers is helping uncover hidden aspects of Ewing sarcoma, which may lead to the discovery of new cancer treatments. Mizuki Azuma, associate professor of molecular biosciences, sought to go beyond the...

Tue, 05/23/2023 — When most researchers looked at a puzzling group of artifacts discovered at French archaeological sites, they presumed these to be ornaments or clothing. But Justin Garnett saw something else. “They resembled finger loops like those used by...

Tue, 05/23/2023 — KU International Affairs has awarded more than $26,000 in travel grants to 11 KU faculty members and two graduate students to support research and collaboration abroad. These competitively awarded funds were dispersed among faculty and students...

Mon, 05/22/2023 — The University of Kansas Sexual Assault Prevention & Education Center (SAPEC) is seeking faculty, staff and graduate students to volunteer their time for the Jayhawks Give a Flock bystander intervention program. SAPEC needs at least 200...

Mon, 05/22/2023 — University Support Staff and Unclassified Professional Staff retirees were recognized at a May 12 luncheon in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Barbara Bichelmeyer, provost and executive vice chancellor, and Mike Rounds, vice provost for human resources,

Mon, 05/22/2023 — The United States and countries like Pakistan, India and Bangladesh are quite different culturally. But the people residing in those nations are not so different that Americans would have double the rates of autism spectrum disorder. Yet,...

Fri, 05/19/2023 — The University of Kansas School of Pharmacy has recognized Harold Godwin, professor emeritus, as its 2023 Distinguished Service Award recipient. Godwin, a Ness City native, served the University of Kansas for 47 years in faculty and...

Thu, 05/18/2023 — KU’s International Affairs has announced that Frederica Suess will lead International Short Programs at the University of Kansas. Overseeing the KU unit that runs on-campus and virtual short programs for international students and...

Thu, 05/18/2023 — The University of Kansas will honor retiring faculty and academic staff members and their guests with a lunch later this month. Chancellor Douglas A. Girod and Barbara Bichelmeyer, provost and executive vice chancellor, will recognize the...

Thu, 05/18/2023 — Finalists for the position of vice provost for faculty affairs at the University of Kansas will take part in interviews and presentations in early and mid-June, search committee leaders have announced. The names of each of the three finalists...

Thu, 05/18/2023 — The inaugural John Haslam Special Topics in Formulation Lecture Series will feature Greg Amidon, a longtime researcher and drug developer in the pharmaceutical industry. The series will take place May 24-26 at the Simons Biosciences Research...

Wed, 05/17/2023 — It’s Earth-sized, volcano-studded (possibly) and orbiting the cusp of a “habitable zone” around a star 90 light years away in a solar system first detailed by an astronomer at the University of Kansas. Meet LP 791-18 d, a fascinating...

Wed, 05/17/2023 — Audrey Rips-Goodwin, an Overland Park junior in chemistry and mathematics who is minoring in psychology, is the University of Kansas’ most recent recipient of an Astronaut Scholarship — an award of up to $15,000.  “I am beyond grateful...

Wed, 05/17/2023 — The World Applied Anthropology Congress will meet at the University of Kansas Lawrence campus from May 31 to June 3. The WAAC is the inaugural flagship global meeting of the Anthropological Association for Humankind, an organization dedicated to...

Tue, 05/16/2023 — Chemists at the University of Kansas and U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have taken a big step toward splitting hydrogen and oxygen molecules to make pure hydrogen — without using fossil fuels. Results from pulse...

Mon, 05/15/2023 — Like the sometimes shocking subjects of his new textbook, Modern Art: A Global Survey From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present (Oxford University Press), author David Cateforis felt the responsibility to live up to modernist poet Ezra...

Fri, 05/12/2023 — The University of Kansas Libraries have announced that Brandon Byrd, author and associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University, has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Alyce Hunley Whayne Visiting Researchers Travel Award for his...


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