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A new book featuring Dan Rockhill — a proponent of D.I.Y. architecture education — shows builders how Studio 804 builds sustainably. The book details East Lawrence homes built by the School of Architecture & Design classes of 2022 and 2023.

In a new book, J.C.D. Clark, distinguished professor emeritus of British history at the University of Kansas, provides a critical historical analysis of the Enlightenment. He writes that the degree of commonality between social and intellectual movements in the Enlightenment has been overstated for polemical purposes, calling for a fundamental reconsideration of the term.

Stephen Jackson conducted a study in which he analyzed influential Texas world history textbooks. They clearly labeled American actions in the 19th century as imperialist, contradicting the long-standing ideal of American exceptionalism. The study unpacks that seeming contradiction.

University of Kansas experimental nuclear physicist Daniel Tapia Takaki and his team for the first time report suggestions of gluonic quantum fluctuations at the subnucleon level in heavy nuclei. The findings boost understanding of quantum fields that control interaction of particles at the tiniest scales.