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Mon, 04/03/2023 — Area media are invited to view Haven Studio — a zero-energy house powered by renewable energy and designed and built by University of Kansas architecture students for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Build Challenge competition...
Mon, 04/03/2023 — A University of Kansas doctoral student in the School of Architecture & Design has received a prestigious research award from the California-based Center for Health Design, which supports researchers whose work is filling gaps in...
Mon, 04/03/2023 — LAWRENCE – Gaslighting – the act of invalidating another person's lived experiences and memories, particularly for interpersonal or political manipulation – is so well-established by now that two scholars of an award-winning essay have defined a subset they call “the benevolent gaslight.” That’s when a white, ostensibly progressive individual perpetuates racist violence but then plays it off as a necessary teaching or learning moment in service of anti-racism or as an aid to their own enlightenment.
“‘I Am Not Your Teaching Moment’: The Benevolent Gaslight and Epistemic Violence” was selected as one of two winners of the Conference on College Composition and
Mon, 04/03/2023 — LAWRENCE – Students from 11 teams across the U.S. competed in the third annual KU Professional Selling Program/King’s Hawaiian Sales Competition on March 24-25 at Capitol Federal Hall.
This year’s competition featured teams from the University of Kansas School of Business, as well as the University of Arizona, University of Central Missouri, Emory University, University of Iowa, Morehouse College, Oklahoma State University, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of North Dakota and Texas Tech University.
The event is sponsored and judged by King’s Hawaiian and included a 90-second, individual speed-selling competition and a
Mon, 04/03/2023 — Stephen Ware’s writings have been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and in at least 34 other federal and state cases. The University of Kansas community has the chance to hear Ware give his inaugural distinguished professor lecture at 4 p.m....
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LAWRENCE – In early March, a team of University of Kansas School of Law students won the UCLA Transactional Law Meet for the buyer’s side of the transaction involved in the competition.
A transactional law meet involves drafting and negotiating business acquisition agreements. The competition consists of three distinct phases: preparing a proposed draft agreement on either the buyer or seller’s side of a business transaction; preparing markups for the opposing side’s draft agreement; and finally, meeting to negotiate the final aspects of the deal.
The Kansas Gold Team won the UCLA Transactional Law Meet for the buyer’s side by receiving the Best Overall Award.
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Fri, 03/31/2023 — The Institute for Policy & Social Research at the University of Kansas will present the IPSR Doctoral Research Fellows Reception from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. April 7 at the Ecumenical Campus Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
This event will...
Fri, 03/31/2023 — Without alternatives to guardianship, people with disabilities and older adults and their families can encounter negative outcomes, according to a University of Kansas expert who has spent 20 years studying the self-determination of people with...
Thu, 03/30/2023 — A University of Kansas researcher is helping scientists in Kansas and around the world better understand the building blocks of infectious diseases so they can develop new treatments to fight them.
Scott Lovell, director of KU’s Protein...
Thu, 03/30/2023 — Sponsored research at the University of Kansas supported the salaries of 4,182 people in 2022 and accounted for $53.9 million in spending with Kansas companies on research-related goods and services, according to a new report. About 33% of...
Thu, 03/30/2023 — University of Kansas faculty, students and staff from the Iranian community will discuss the political demonstrations and unrest in Iran through the perspectives of research and shared experience as part of the Global Conversations series.
The...
Wed, 03/29/2023 — The Red Hot Research series returns in April with two sessions focused on graduate student research and racial equity.
Red Hot Graduate Research, which showcases graduate students across a range of disciplines, will take place at 4 p.m. April 7.
Wed, 03/29/2023 — In the age of big data, information is everywhere. But it takes a skilled data interpreter and communicator to help people understand what information means and why it is important. To help ensure future journalists and communicators know how...
Wed, 03/29/2023 — A team of researchers at the University of Kansas School of Engineering has partnered with U.S. federal agencies in a push to reinforce American dams and levees nationwide using fiber-reinforced polymers, sensors, artificial intelligence and...
Tue, 03/28/2023 — Companies must innovate in order to sustain competitive advantage. But a new study reveals how integral information technology is to maintaining that advantage.
“What we find is investments in IT systems and in IT human resource is critical...
Tue, 03/28/2023 — Four midcareer faculty members at the University of Kansas will receive an award in recognition of their significant research or scholarly achievements in their field.
The University Scholarly Achievement Award recognizes truly outstanding...
Tue, 03/28/2023 — The Asian Classical Music Initiative (ACMI) and the University of Kansas Center for East Asian Studies will present the world premiere of "Song of Spring Outing," a solo piano piece composed by Chen Yi, a distinguished professor of composition...
Tue, 03/28/2023 — When the Kinks’ Ray Davies penned the tune “Last of the Steam-Powered Trains,” the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist at the University of Kansas, the replacement of...
Mon, 03/27/2023 — a conspiracy by a handful of would-be domestic terrorists to attack and ...
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LAWRENCE – Three University of Kansas School of Law alumni will receive the law school’s highest alumni honor, the Distinguished Alumni Award, this year. The award celebrates graduates for their professional achievements, contributions to the legal field and service to their community and the university.
David Elkouri, Janet Justus and U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran will receive the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award at a private dinner April 1 in Lawrence.
David Elkouri, L’78, has spent the last 12 years of his career serving as executive vice president and general counsel of two Houston-based, publicly traded corporations, Petrohawk Energy Corporation (Petrohawk) and
