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Researchers develop velocity-based training guidelines for football, tailored for specific positions
Researchers at KU’s Jayhawk Athletic Performance Lab have published guidelines for using velocity-based training in college football. The approach measures the speed of a barbell during weight lifting and can be used to develop different types of strength and power. The guidelines help develop training regiments for specific athletes and by position group, based on the unique needs of each.
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Fri, 07/17/2026
Osage professor helps renovate ‘Little House on the Prairie’
In a new Netflix series, Robert Warrior, the Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kansas, served as a story consultant for a fresh adaptation of the beloved books and classic TV show “Little House on the Prairie.”
Wed, 06/17/2026
Keeler Professorship fuels KU collaboration on Mars simulant research
Steve Gurysh, associate professor of visual art, will further his exploration of Mars Global Simulant through sculpture and by contributing to evolutionary biology scholarship at KU.
Fri, 05/01/2026
Home on the range: Kansas sabbatical inspires artist
Barry Fitzgerald is returning to Lindsborg to show paintings he made while spending a month at the nearby Red Barn Studio. It was his first artistic residency after a long and successful career as an illustrator.
Fri, 04/24/2026
Poetry translator serves as cross-cultural ambassador for latest project, ‘Last Stops of the Night Journey’
A University of Kansas professor says his latest translation of an Italian poetry collection, like all his work, is driven by his love of literature. Patrizio Ceccagnoli will give a reading for Milo De Angelis’ “Last Stops of the Night Journey” on April 28.
Thu, 04/09/2026
Composer elevates voices of women poets on new recording
A University of Kansas professor has released a new album, “Three Silent Things: Vocal Chamber Music by Ingrid Stölzel,” featuring the settings of female poets’ writing, including one by Kansas native aviator Amelia Earhart.
Thu, 03/26/2026
Filmmakers save stories of Topeka’s Bottoms neighborhood
A 30-minute version of the documentary “Reclaiming Home: Remembering the Topeka Bottoms” premieres at 6 p.m. March 27, closing out the related exhibition at the University of Kansas Department of Visual Art’s Off-Site Art Space downtown.
Tue, 03/17/2026
Music theorist finds chord’s ‘third nature’ in composition suppressed during Soviet era
Music theorists have previously described how certain chords contain the possibility of flowing smoothly into other similar-sounding chords, which they refer to as the chord’s “second nature.” Now a University of Kansas professor of music theory has published a paper that sets out the “third nature” of a chord.
Wed, 03/04/2026
Scholar links Greek tragedy, new evidence on transmission of trauma
A University of Kansas scholar has won a fellowship from the National Humanities Center to work on a book drawing parallels between the rhythmic tropes of ancient Greek tragedy and cutting-edge scientific research on epigenetic trauma.
Tue, 03/03/2026
Enslaved people transformed clothing into instruments of rebellion, research reveals
In a new article, Zay Dale, assistant professor of English at the University of Kansas, reveals how textiles operated as violent aesthetic tools in the formation of Black existence during American slavery, but enslaved people transformed these fibers into instruments of refusal, creativity and ontological reclamation.
Thu, 02/19/2026
Japanese painting tradition meets street materials in new exhibition
The many lives of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani: The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas has brought together the largest collection of work by the beloved street artist in an exhibition opening Feb. 19.
Tue, 02/17/2026
Pioneering book aims to uplift Nigerian Hausa Muslim women
In a new book, Rahina Muazu shows how Hausa Muslim women and men are actively interpreting scripture, making families, earning livelihoods and building institutions amid rapid social change. The book is an act of decolonizing knowledge because it is written in her native Hausa language, according to the KU faculty member.
Wed, 02/11/2026
Author offers hope in ‘mushroomy’ sci-fi novel ‘Song of Spores’
Science fiction writer Bogi Takács Perelmutter's “Song of Spores” was recently published by Broken Eye Books. The KU faculty member’s novel addresses questions like the persistence of prejudice, the possibilities of international cooperation and what happens when reality doesn’t match the high-minded slogans you’ve been taught to uphold.
Wed, 01/28/2026
FOREST Collaborations: Choreographer using grant for ongoing nature project
KU dance faculty member Shannon Stewart has received a $10,000 unrestricted grant that comes with one of 53 inaugural State of the Art Prizes from the New York-based Creative Capital Foundation. She'll use the funding in part for an April performance to coincide with the opening of a new nature trail within Baldwin Woods, part of KU Field Station.
Tue, 01/27/2026
Childhood stories from ‘Queen of the Harlem Renaissance’ depicted in new book
In a new picture book aimed at younger readers, Giselle Anatol, professor of English at the University of Kansas, offers a joyful tribute to Zora Neale Hurston, the “Queen of the Harlem Renaissance.”
Thu, 01/15/2026
Professor’s ‘Complete Works’ preserves music of pioneering African American bandleader
KU Music scholar Colin Roust has published the first “Complete Works” of early 19th century African American bandleader and composer Francis Johnson. The work includes 282 songs, cotillions, quadrilles, waltzes and quick steps that comprised the popular dance music of Johnson’s day.
Wed, 01/07/2026
Scholar says censorship was constant struggle during Spanish Inquisition
Contributing a chapter to the new book “The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Inquisition,” a University of Kansas professor stresses the limits of the Spanish Inquisition’s ability to control literature and free thought. “The key takeaway is still valid today — that when you prohibit things, it makes them more attractive,” Patricia Manning said.
Wed, 12/17/2025
KU scholar’s work comes alive as empire-building video game character
A few years ago, Amal El Haimeur could hardly find any information about the 16th century “pirate queen” of Morocco. After the University of Kansas professor published her research, Sayyida al-Hurra became a character in a leading video game.
Wed, 12/10/2025
Resistance to Spanish tribute in colonial Panama reflective of early Black community mobilization
In a new article, Robert Schwaller, a professor of history at the University of Kansas, details the tireless efforts and legal proceedings of the free Black community in 16th century Panama to challenge the tribute imposed by King Philip II of Spain.
Tue, 12/09/2025
Modern mixmasters have nothing on Poverty Row movie music mavens
For the first time, a University of Kansas musicologist has traced the sources and remixing of 16,000 musical fragments used to score all 66 serials produced by Republic Pictures.
Wed, 11/19/2025
In new exhibition, Elise Kirk’s photos imply that we all live in ‘New Town’
A photographer and University of Kansas professor's long, deep study of a New York City waterway results in a body of work that blurs some detail, yet draws the audience into shared emotions. Elise Kirk's series “New Town” opens Nov. 19 at Washington University’s Weitman Gallery.
Tue, 11/18/2025
KU filmmaker’s new series captures stories, traditions of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska
Rebekka Schlichting, assistant professor of the practice at the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications, released the series “Baxoje Basics” this past month. Her episode “In Honor of Pete Fee” captured the last interview with the revered elder of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska.
Fri, 10/24/2025
Haunting Humanities returns with a wicked lineup of attractions
The Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas will bring the mysterious, the magical and the macabre to downtown Lawrence Oct. 29 with Haunting Humanities, the all-ages “science fair for the humanities” with a Halloween twist.
Wed, 10/15/2025
History of Japan’s signature beverage sake shared in new book
Eric Rath, professor of history at the University of Kansas, explores the evolution of Japanese sake from homebrew to flavored varieties, while tracing its cultural significance and global rise, in his new book, “Kanpai: The History of Sake.”
Wed, 10/01/2025
Everything old is new again on latest Draper Family Band recording
A University of Kansas School of Music professor’s multigenerational band is back at it with a second album of original songs. Brandon Draper dusted off old material and wrote new works, as well, for for the Draper Family Band’s new album in a blues-rock vein.
Wed, 10/01/2025
Lawrence creatives among recipients of 2025 Rocket Grants for community-driven art projects
Charlotte Street and the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas have announced the 10 recipients of the 2025-2026 Rocket Grants awards, a re-granting program of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Mon, 09/29/2025
New book examines how ‘bookish’ language of Shakespeare’s England influenced today’s society
In a new book, Jonathan Lamb, professor of English at the University of Kansas, reveals how the broad lexicon of book-related words in the newly print-savvy era of Shakespeare’s England taught cultures how to think, contemplate and describe the world.
Wed, 09/24/2025
Director brings urgency to production of ‘Silent Sky’
University of Kansas lecturer Michelle Miller enlisted a KU astrophysicist colleague to fire up the cast of “Silent Sky,” to be staged Oct. 3-5 at University Theatre. The play about pioneering woman astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt and overcoming sexism in the scientific workplace is still relevant today, according to Miller.
Fri, 09/19/2025
KU center hosts conference, online presentations on colonialism in Central America
KU's Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies has published video from a scholarly summer conference that gathered Indigenous and Afro-Central American leaders from all seven Central American countries. Those leaders presented on the current situation of their groups in historical perspective.
Thu, 09/11/2025
Spencer Museum of Art announces success of $2 million challenge grant to support its Arts Research Integration Program
The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas today announced the completion of a $2 million challenge grant for its Arts Research Integration (ARI) initiative, bringing total fundraising to endow and fund this visionary program to $5 million.
Thu, 09/11/2025
School of Architecture & Design announces fall 2025 Architecture Lecture Series
The University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design Fall 2025 Architecture Lecture Series begins Sept. 12 with a lecture by Kay Sargent, an interior designer and author working at the forefront of workplace design and research.