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NSF grant supports study on how state cuts to higher education affect research output
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $236,790 grant to the University of Kansas for Donna Ginther, professor of economics and interim director of the Institute for Policy & Social Research, to study the effects of research funding on research outputs. ...
Philosophy classes can affect real-world behavior, study finds
College philosophy classes may open your mind to new ways of thinking. But can they really affect how you behave? ...
Spencer Museum awarded $650K from Mellon Foundation to continue Integrated Arts Research Initiative
The Spencer Museum of Art has earned a grant of $650,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Integrated Arts Research Initiative (IARI) for the next five years. A 2015 award of $487,000 from the Mellon Foundation launched IARI with the goal of modeling how the staff, collections...
KU Engineering selects associate dean for academic affairs
Susan Williams, professor of chemical & petroleum engineering, has been named as the associate dean for academic affairs (ADAA) for the University of Kansas School of Engineering. The ADAA leads the school’s academic affairs at the undergraduate and graduate levels and plays a critical role in promoting and maintaining the...
$1.4M NSF grant will support technology education for women post-incarceration
Over the past 40 years, the population of women in state prisons across the United States has increased by 834 percent. While men continue to be the vast majority of the prison population, the rate of incarceration of women is growing. ...
Expert predicted exodus from Central America
First, the indigenous people of Central America’s Northern Triangle region were economically marginalized. Then they were massacred in the ideological civil war that raged across El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras during the 1980s and early ’90s. Now, climate change has driven many to starvation. ...
KU Libraries announce 2019 Research Sprints participants
The University of Kansas Libraries have announced the 2019 Research Sprints participants: Sara Gregg, associate professor of history and environmental studies, and Melissa Peterson, lecturer for the Applied English Center. As a result of having their projects chosen through a competitive selection process, Gregg and Peterson each spent one intensive...
Architecture student receives national Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship
award from the nation’s oldest and most selective honor society will help defray some of the costs she’ll incur as she finishes her architecture degree with a year of study abroad in France. The fellowship is one of 50 awarded across the nation. In May, Farrow received the KU Phi...
Sociology department announces spring student awards 2019
Students in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kansas received $67,000 in awards and scholarship for outstanding academic achievement as part of the department’s spring awards. ...
Addiction treatment program for community members to expand
A free University of Kansas program that helps community members with addictions is set to expand through a local grant and support from Douglas County. ...
Play asks: How can we tolerate intolerance?
Can we tolerate intolerance? If so, how? And why should we? ...
Kansas Geological Survey honors outstanding students
Three University of Kansas students received outstanding achievement awards in May from the Kansas Geological Survey (KGS), based in KU’s West District. ...
Historic scroll severed by warfare reunited through professor’s quest
Paul Mirecki found himself in the middle of an Indiana Jones-style quest involving looted antiquities. ...
Sydney shortlists KU professors’ affordable, smart housing plan
Affordable housing is the issue of the day in Kansas and around the world. So it is that two researchers in the University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design have received a $20,000 honorarium from the city of Sydney, Australia, to flesh out their shortlisted entry in that city’s...
SCOTUS ruling will stymie use of census for political immigration influence for now, professor says
The Supreme Court announced Thursday a ruling that prevents the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, at least temporarily. In a partially unanimous ruling, with splits among justices in various sections of the case, the court upheld a ruling from the Southern District of New...
University announces spring 2019 honor roll
More than 5,700 undergraduate students at the University of Kansas earned honor roll distinction for the spring 2019 semester. ...
Engineering education outreach program benefits Kansas teachers
High school teachers from across Kansas are gathered at the University of Kansas for six weeks this summer to participate in research and learn skills they’ll take back to their classrooms this fall. ...
Unconditional love meets unbearable conditions in 'Chasing Gods'
A family struggles to find common ground following the Pulse nightclub shooting in “Chasing Gods,” a new play by Paris Crayton III, who is in residence at the University of Kansas this summer. As this work develops, the cast members – a mix of professional Kansas City-area actors and students...
Audio-Reader wins multiple awards at international conference
Kansas Audio-Reader was recently honored with six awards in excellence at the 2019 International Association of Audio Information Services (IAAIS). This year’s conference, held in Phoenix, recognized Audio-Reader in six categories:...
Sara Baer will lead Kansas Biological Survey
The University of Kansas Office of Research has announced that Sara Baer has accepted the position of director of the Kansas Biological Survey, a KU designated research center with dual status as a state agency. Baer has been professor and chair of the Department of Plant Biology at Southern Illinois...
Once a war refugee and now an evolutionary biologist, doctoral student models future habitats for flagship bird species in West Africa
Growing up in Liberia during that country’s brutal 14-year civil war, Benedictus Freeman and his family fled into the rainforest, where they survived for years eating bush meat and foraging. The rainforest provided Freeman sustenance and protection — but more than that, the experience ignited a passion in him for...
LGBTQ historian available to discuss Stonewall Riots anniversary
On June 28, 1969, a police raid at the Stonewall Inn prompted members of New York City’s gay community to engage in violent demonstrations that became known as the Stonewall Riots. This Friday marks the 50th anniversary of the momentous event. ...
Entrenched stereotypes keeping women from military front lines, professors' new book says
For more than a century, it was culturally unacceptable for women to join men in the front lines of combat in the U.S. military. Even though the policy banning women from combat roles has been rescinded, their integration into the front line and special operations has been slow and met...
Public opinion on wrongful convictions swayed by entertainment series, study finds
Americans are hooked on the Netflix series “When They See Us,” which reconstructs the true story of five Harlem teens falsely accused of a brutal crime. ...
Audio Reader's 10th annual golf tournament most successful yet
After weeks of heavy rain, Kansas Audio-Reader lucked out with beautiful spring weather for the 10th Annual Golf Classic, one of the organization's key fundraisers. It was the most successful tournament yet, grossing more than $33,000. Erin O'Neil, women's golf coach at the University of Kansas, chaired the tournament committee...
Major medieval poet pegged as book's scribe, shaking up field
Stop the presses! Start tweeting! There is breaking news from the 15th century! ...
Exhibition makes clear tattoo king’s Asian art sources
Tattoo art icon Don Ed Hardy has come full circle more than once. He’s gone from student of East Asian art history to commercial juggernaut and back to fine art. And even within the fashion world, he’s had a recent comeback after his early 2000s success led to overexposure and...
Artificial intelligence identifies ‘kissing bugs’ that spread Chagas disease
New research from the University of Kansas shows machine learning is capable of identifying insects that spread the incurable disease called Chagas with high precision, based on ordinary digital photos. The idea is to give public health officials where Chagas is prevalent a new tool to stem the spread of...
KU insurance certificate program announces 15 industry partners
The University of Kansas School of Business has established industry partnerships with 15 insurance companies for its newest certificate program. The companies have committed $660,000 in total to date to support the Jack Lockton Certificate in Insurance and Risk Management program. ...
KU professor plays key role in clarifying international arbitration law for judges, lawyers
A University of Kansas law professor has played a key role in recent efforts to clarify U.S. law governing international arbitration. Christopher Drahozal, the John M. Rounds Professor of Law at KU, served as an associate reporter for the Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration. ...