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Study: ChatGPT needs expert supervision to help parents with children’s healthcare information
New research from the University of Kansas Life Span Institute highlights a key vulnerability to misinformation generated by artificial intelligence and a potential model to combat it.
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Tue, 10/08/2024
Designer adjusts set of ‘Lady Day’ until it’s just right
Rana Esfandiary, assistant professor in the University of Kansas Department of Theatre & Dance, researched the jazz age to create a set for "Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill," opening Oct. 8 at KCRep.
Thu, 09/19/2024
Graphic guide makes music therapy accessible
A new book from a University of Kansas associate professor of music serves as an illustrated introduction to the field of music therapy for beginners, covering definitions, methods and theories.
Fri, 09/06/2024
KU English professors awarded NEH grant for 2025 AI, digital literacy institute
KU researchers received an NEH Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant to fund their project, AI & Digital Literacy: Toward an Inclusive and Empowering Teaching Practice, an in-person institute administered in partnership with the National Humanities Center, in June 2025.
Tue, 09/03/2024
Re-creations of 1870s railway photos reveal profound change to Kansas, Colorado plains
A fascinating new book chronicling transformation on the plains of Kansas and western Colorado uses repeat photography — contemporary re-creations of 1870s photos — to reveal startling changes to the landscape.
Wed, 08/28/2024
Spencer Museum’s ‘Native Fashion’ exhibition explores diversity, ingenuity of Indigenous style and dress
“Native Fashion,” which opens Sept. 1 at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, explores the diversity and ingenuity of wearable artworks produced by Native people from the 19th century into today.
Thu, 08/15/2024
New book explores how punk virus continues to infect new generations
Nearly 50 years after its creation, punk rock “manifests and mutates across the arts, infecting culture, lifestyles and even national heritage,” said Iain Ellis, KU lecturer in English and author of a new book on the music form.
Tue, 07/16/2024
Researcher fleshes out portrait of English nobleman Esmé Stuart
Although he was a confidant of Britain's King James I and he succeeded his brother as Duke of Lennox, history seemed to have forgotten Esmé Stuart. So a KU professor delved into old records to learn more about him.
Mon, 07/15/2024
New book reveals how roads and vehicles transformed colonial societies across Africa
In a new book, Andrew Denning, associate professor of history at the University of Kansas, uncovers how vehicles and the roads they traveled upon began to transform societies across 19th and 20th century Africa … but rarely in the manner colonizing Europeans expected.
Wed, 07/10/2024
Kansans help expand trombone repertoire with new recording
A new recording by KU School of Music faculty members Michael Davidson and Ellen Sommer also features contributions from musicians and music educators from across the state.
Mon, 07/08/2024
‘Overlooked’ peoples’ influence on Colonial Spanish America examined in new book
Robert Schwaller, professor of history, co-edited a new book titled “Overlooked Places and Peoples: Indigenous and African Resistance in Colonial Spanish America, 1500-1800.” It offers new insight into how and why the inhabitants of these places responded contentiously or cooperatively to Spanish colonialism.
Tue, 06/25/2024
Globe-trotting trumpet professor featured in Spanish Olympics fanfare
Musical talent, hard work and networking take Stephen Leisring around the world — recently to Madrid, where he played first trumpet on a piece for Radio Television Española's upcoming coverage of the Paris Olympics.
Thu, 06/06/2024
KU Libraries announce 2024 Whayne Scholars; visiting researchers’ presentations set for June 26
Alyssa Cole, assistant professor of African American studies at the University of Florida, and Brooke Thomas, African American history postdoctoral scholar at Pennsylvania State University, are the recipients of the 2024 Alyce Hunley Whayne Visiting Researchers Travel Award from KU Libraries. They will visit KU from June 24 to 27 with a joint public presentation at 3 p.m. June 26 in the Johnson Room.
Tue, 06/04/2024
Lifelong learner is intergenerational visual art educator, advocate
Liz Langdon joined the faculty of KU's Department of Visual Art when she was 65 after an extensive career in art education. She writes of the "long hill" she has climbed and vistas yet to conquer for a chapter in a new book titled "Art Education and Creative Aging: Older Adults as Learners, Makers, and Teachers of Art."
Tue, 05/28/2024
Spain still struggles over interpretation of its Golden Age
To understand the separatist movements and other political forces that threaten to break Spain apart, it is instructive to see how all sides spin the nation’s Golden Age literary heritage today. That is the premise of the new book “The Currency of Cultural Patrimony: The Spanish Golden Age” by KU author Robert Bayliss.
Wed, 04/24/2024
Study shows long-standing links among disease, race, class, infrastructure
Links – both real and imagined – between race and disease are far older than the COVID-19 pandemic. A University of Kansas researcher says her new study of a 19th-century Cuban aqueduct project during a cholera outbreak demonstrates this.
Fri, 04/12/2024
Extensive project, new book reveal monument to inflation in Roman times
Philip Stinson, associate professor of classics at the University of Kansas, has detailed a 50-year project translating Emperor Diocletian’s edict of maximum prices to “curb the rampant greed of retailers.” Stinson helped provide an architectural reconstruction of the full decree, which lists the prices allowed for a comprehensive array of goods and services.
Thu, 03/28/2024
Pianist Eddie Moore pursues a pure vision
A Kansas City musician and lecturer in the School of Music, Eddie Moore has released a new solo live recording, "Aperture."
Tue, 03/12/2024
Digital scholarship illuminates life of important medieval poet
A fresh round of digital scholarship has revealed new information about the family and London network of late-medieval poet Thomas Hoccleve.
Thu, 02/08/2024
Author creates fantastic fiction grounded in reality
At some level, you have to write what you know, and KU faculty member Bogi Takács Perelmutter does that in their new collection of fantastical tales, titled "Power to Yield and Other Stories."
Mon, 01/08/2024
New children’s book pays tribute to Toni Morrison
Written by University of Kansas scholar Giselle Anatol, “Small-Girl Toni and the Quest for Gold” is thought to be the first children’s book inspired by the life of the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such novels as “Beloved” and “Song of Solomon.”
Thu, 01/04/2024
Author makes case for data-driven language learning
Nina Vyatkina, professor of German and applied linguistics, is a believer in students directly using collections of word usage – corpora – to help them understand and gain fluency in their target language. The proven success of data-driven learning in acquiring the German language can be repeated with other languages and perhaps other fields, she says.
Wed, 07/31/2019
Indigenous food sovereignty examined in new book
UPDATE: In August 2020, "Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States" was awarded the Daniel F. Austin Award for an edited volume by the Society for Economic Botany. ...