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KU Alumni Association sets dates for Homecoming 2020
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas will celebrate its 108th Homecoming Sept. 26-Oct. 3, culminating in the KU football game against Iowa State Oct. 3 in David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. ...
KU Endowment retains real estate advisers
LAWRENCE — KU Endowment has retained an advisory firm to evaluate future development options for several KU Endowment-owned sites adjacent to the University of Kansas Lawrence campus, including the recreation fields known as the Shenk Sports Complex at the corner of Iowa Street and Clinton Parkway. ...
KU Libraries announce 2019 Shulenburger Award for Innovation and Advocacy in Scholarly Communication
Proposed France tariffs show willingness to act 'aggressively, unilaterally' against friend or foe, law expert says
LAWRENCE — The United States is threatening 100% tariffs on French merchandise worth about $2.4 billion, President Donald Trump announced, in response to a dispute over how France taxes large tech companies. The tax, which would affect revenues of companies like Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, is disputed by the...
Polish resistance fighter shares history of combating fascism, saving Jews in World War II
LAWRENCE — At 93 years old, Jarosław “Jarek” Piekałkiewicz understands he is likely the last Polish resistance fighter to ever write a book about his experience fighting the Nazis in World War II. ...
Education crisis is a chance for transformational change, KU scholars say
LAWRENCE — At a time when education faces heavy criticism, a new book by a University of Kansas professor and students aims to take schools from a "yes, but" mindset to a "yes, and" approach to transform the system. ...
University announces 2020 Global Scholars
LAWRENCE — The Global Scholars Program has selected 15 University of Kansas sophomores as 2020 Global Scholars. ...
Linguistics faculty member named as KU's latest AAAS Fellow
LAWRENCE — Allard Jongman, a professor of linguistics at the University of Kansas, is among the latest group of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows announced today. ...
KU French Club receives French government award
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Department of French, Francophone & Italian Studies and the School of Languages, Literatures & Culture have announced that the KU French Club took a second-place France on Campus Award. ...
'The Wolves' offers vivid picture of teen soccer players' lives
LAWRENCE — University Theatre will present “The Wolves,” a 2017 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and work that has been highly produced in theatres nationwide since it closed off-Broadway in 2018. Catch the University of Kansas production Dec. 5-12 in the William Inge Memorial Theatre at Murphy Hall. ...
Senior will study in Ireland after becoming KU’s second George J. Mitchell Scholar
LAWRENCE — After he finishes his work at the University of Kansas this year, senior Alex Murray will be headed to Ireland to pursue a graduate degree after receiving word on Saturday that he had won the George J. Mitchell Scholarship. ...
Renowned philosopher embraced, misunderstood by extremist hate groups
LAWRENCE — Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, composer, poet and cultural critic. ...
University honors September, October Employees of the Month
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has announced the September and October 2019 Employees of the Month. ...
‘Dream team’ to study ice loss on critical Greenland glacier to better forecast rising oceans
Professor bringing important Ukrainian novel to Western audiences
LAWRENCE – As the locus of the current impeachment drama, Ukraine is in all the headlines these days. A University of Kansas professor hopes that makes the ground more fertile for his native country’s most celebrated recent novel, which he is translating into English and otherwise working to popularize in...
Federal grants energize BTBC at KU’s economic development efforts for northeast Kansas
KGS receives DOD grant to advance tunnel detection technology
LAWRENCE — Noninvasive seismic techniques developed at the Kansas Geological Survey to locate abandoned mines in Kansas also have been used to detect drug runners’ tunnels in the Southwest, clandestine tunnels in war zones and other subsurface structures. To further advance the technology, the KGS has been awarded $2.54 million...
College student voting doubled at KU, according to national study
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas received a gold seal for achieving a student voting rate between 40% and 49% at the 2019 ALL IN Challenge Awards Ceremony held to recognize colleges and universities committed to increasing college student voting rates. KU is one of 169 colleges and universities...
New book traces 'World of Trouble' early American couple faced for neutrality in American Revolution
LAWRENCE — The major events and players of the American Revolution are well-documented in history books. Yet the people who lived through that tumultuous period in American history are often assumed to have been patriots who fought to defy British policies and establish a new nation. A University of Kansas...
Distinguished professor will discuss strengths-based approaches to educating learners with disabilities
LAWRENCE — For more than four decades, U.S. children with disabilities have had the right to be educated alongside their nondisabled peers in the classroom. However, although progress has been made in achieving this outcome, far too many students are separated from their peers without disabilities and receive education in...
Engineering's interdisciplinary computing program receives accreditation
LAWRENCE — The interdisciplinary computing program at the University of Kansas School of Engineering has received accreditation — the first program of its kind to be so recognized. ...
Travelers split on whether they would take trips in autonomous vehicles, study finds
KU professor to be appointed to president’s science advisory board
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas School of Engineering professor will be appointed by the president of the United States to serve on a national science and technology advisory board. ...
KU graduate student selected for DoE research grant
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas doctoral student in physics was selected as one of 49 students nationwide to take part in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program. ...