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Vicki Schmidt earns pharmacy school's top honor
The University of Kansas School of Pharmacy will present its highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award, to Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt on Friday, April 26, at the School of Pharmacy building in Lawrence. ...
KU names new director of University Honors Program
vice provost for First-Year Experience, Crawford-Parker has overseen several signature KU programs, including Hawk Week, KU Common Book, Orientation and the First-Year Seminar Program. Through various roles, she has supported advancements in online education, experiential learning and curriculum. Crawford-Parker also has experience as an academic advisor and instructor, teaching art...
Graduate student awards ceremony will celebrate excellence
More than 70 outstanding graduate students, as well as staff and faculty, will be recognized at the annual University of Kansas Graduate Awards Ceremony at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Awards will be presented by Audrey Lamb, interim dean of graduate studies. ...
Spencer Museum invites Lawrence to Day of Creativity
The Spencer Museum of Art invites the University of Kansas and Lawrence communities to explore creative processes across disciplines at the Day of Creativity. The free community event will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at the Spencer Museum. ...
KU Debate will present 'Resolved: The Authority of the President of the United States Should Be Substantially Curtailed'
KU Libraries will host a Gallery Lecture Series presentation by the University of Kansas debate team and Scott Harris, director and coach. The presentation, titled “Resolved: The Authority of the President of the United States Should Be Substantially Curtailed,” will take place from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Friday, April 26,...
Book examines struggles over memory of Emmett Till
While historians have long recognized the galvanizing effect teenager Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching had on the American civil rights movement, the stories of how the murder was shaped by and, in turn, shaped the Mississippi Delta communities closest to it have never been told. Until now. ...
Team digitally reunifies Greenlandic heritage a century later
Objects made by Greenland Inuit people and collected by the so-called “Dashing Kansan,” naturalist and adventurer Lewis Lindsay Dyche, in the 1890s will return to their place of origin – or at least three-dimensional copies of them will – as the result of a visit last week by Greenlandic researchers...
KPR’s 'Retro Cocktail Hour' hosts Cinema a Go Go with a tiki twist
Kansas Public Radio’s “Retro Cocktail Hour” is bringing to the big screen a frightfully fun double feature starting at 7 p.m. Friday, May 3, at Liberty Hall. The cheesy classics “Creature from the Black Lagoon” (1954) and “The Beach Girls and the Monster” (1965) both have a lovely tiki-twist. ...
Spellbinding blunder leads love asunder in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will showcase the strength of artistic collaboration, the exceptionalism of composer Benjamin Britten and the humor of William Shakespeare. The opera features the KU Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Carolyn Watson, as well as the University of Kansas School of Music’s voice students and the University Theatre’s...
Political science department honors top students, honor society initiates
The University of Kansas Political Science Department recently honored its top students at an annual recognition ceremony with awards and induction into Pi Sigma Alpha. ...
KU nominates 4 students for Astronaut Scholarships
Four academically talented University of Kansas students will be competing for scholarships from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. ...
New NSF grant could make lithium-ion batteries safer and promote their industrial use
You could have a lithium-ion battery in your pocket right now, powering your mobile phone or e-cig. If you have a laptop computer in your backpack, it probably runs on a lithium-ion battery. Or you might drive a Toyota Prius, Chevy Volt or Tesla powered by a large number of...
First pharmacy dean candidate to present April 23
James Backes is one of three candidates invited to continue in the search process. He will offer a public presentation at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 23, in Room 1020 of Pharmacy Building on the Lawrence campus. Each candidate has been asked to present on the topic “Advancing the Stature and...
2019 KU Common Book offers complex view of United States
struggle and conflict appear in abundance in the 2019-2020 KU Common Book, "Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation." The collection, edited by John Freeman, features essays, short stories, poems and more from 36 prominent writers and thinkers in the United States today. Combined, they provide...
KU receives NEH-Mellon Humanities Open Book grant
With support from a two-year, $129,000 grant, the University of Kansas Libraries and the University Press of Kansas will convert out-of-print humanities texts into freely accessible digital resources. This project is part of the Humanities Open Book grant program led by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment...
Academy Award-winning screenwriter to speak at Media & the Law Seminar
& the Law Seminar is an annual continuing legal education (CLE) event hosted by the KU School of Law and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association Media Law Committee. ...
School of Business names 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients
The University of Kansas School of Business will honor Tom Bené and Frank Friedman with its 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award. ...
KU recognizes 2019 Sustainability Leadership Award recipients
The University of Kansas Center for Sustainability will recognize five individuals and initiatives with Sustainability Leadership Awards on Friday, April 19. The awards highlight outstanding leadership and creativity in addressing issues of ecology, efficiency and equity on the Lawrence campus and in the broader community. Award recipients are nominated by...
Veteran Notre Dame organist hopes for another miracle
Having been the apparent recipient of one miracle – the survival of the organ in Monday’s devastating fire — James Higdon dares to hope for another: that he will live long enough, and enough of Les Grandes Orgues (the Grand Organ) in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris can be...
Ten students receive KU Field Station Student Research Awards for 2019
Students will fan out across the University of Kansas Field Station this summer, carrying out experiments for their own ecological research. Their work covers subjects such as prairie restoration, prescribed fire monitoring, soil structure and harmful algal blooms. Each year, the Kansas Biological Survey provides annual awards to help cover...
Research Excellence Initiative provides $580,000 to support College researchers
Faculty and student research across the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Kansas received a $580,000 boost from the 2018-2019 Research Excellence Initiative awards. ...
KU institute designated lead agency of Kansas' State Data Center
Journalism class provides coverage for Kansas community without newspaper
As the media landscape continues to change across the country, more communities are finding themselves in news deserts, without the coverage where they once had thriving newspapers. Meanwhile, journalism students are looking to learn their craft and gain real-world experience. In Kansas, one community is close enough to campus for...
Three pharmacy dean candidates invited to KU campus
of each candidate will be announced roughly one business day before their respective campus visits. Public presentations for each of the candidates have been scheduled for the following dates:...
Groundwater levels slightly up or near steady in western, central Kansas
Groundwater levels during 2018, on average, rose slightly or remained about even throughout most of western and central Kansas, according to preliminary data compiled by the Kansas Geological Survey. ...
KU, Haskell students to present research projects at 19th annual symposium
Research relating to cancer, developmental genetics, microbiology, behavior in model organisms, enzymes and proteins, soils and Native American communities will be among student research presented at the 19th annual University of Kansas-Haskell Indian Nations University Undergraduate Research Symposium. ...
Ideal home in postcolonial India: modern yet austere
How, in the context of the Cold War, could America keep India from falling to communism? One way was by holding out a vision of better homes, and ergo better lives, for workers and others with low social standing. ...
School of Education recognizes Rita Blitt for artwork collections
Rita Blitt, award-winning painter, sculptor and filmmaker, will be recognized by the School of Education at the University of Kansas for her recent gift of original artwork now lining the halls of Joseph R. Pearson Hall. ...
Chancellor surprises student who was named as KU's 20th Truman Scholar
When Sam Steuart paid a brief visit to University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas A. Girod’s office this week — ostensibly for a brief visit related to an upcoming presentation — the Topeka junior instead found balloons, cheers and hearty congratulations, along with news that he had been named as KU’s...
Colloquium will put Greenland archaeology in focus
Climate change in Greenland and how it poses a threat to archaeological heritage will be explored in an upcoming presentation by Hans Harmsen, archaeologist and curator of the Greenland National Museum & Archives. ...