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Study examines how ad strategies of the Great Depression can inform today's crisis communications
The COVID-19 pandemic was not the first time a crisis swept through the nation and beyond, forcing businesses and media to find ways to reach people in uncertain times. A new study from the University of Kansas has analyzed newspaper advertising strategies from the Great Depression to see what one...
Two KU students join state social work boards
Two social work students from the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare are serving on state boards of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). ...
KU Doctor of Education degrees in educational administration, higher education administration now offered online
At the University of Kansas, Jayhawks recognize how family and work commitments, health or mobility limitations, and other responsibilities can create barriers to education and career advancement. With the goal of creating degree programs that are accessible to everyone with the ambition to succeed, KU’s educational leadership & policy studies...
Study finds high levels of job satisfaction among copy editors, little negative effect from pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted jobs across the workforce, including the editorial sector. But a new study from the University of Kansas found it did not significantly affect how copy editors, proofreaders and fact-checkers felt about their work and that those working in the professions still have high job satisfaction and...
Books provide road map for educators, school communities to promote self-determination
Over a decade of research has shown that when students, especially those with disabilities, are given ownership and determination of their own education and life goals, they have better educational outcomes. Two new books based upon work at the University of Kansas provide a road map for educators, school communities...
Alumnus Daniel Flynn receives School of Pharmacy’s Distinguished Graduate Award
Daniel Flynn, a 1977 and 1981 graduate of the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy, is the recipient of the school’s Distinguished Graduate Award for 2024. Flynn will receive the award Jan. 10 prior to his keynote lecture as part of the 39th Mossberg Honors Symposium at the Pharmacy Building...
KU names Ric Steele as new associate vice provost for graduate studies
Ric Steele, professor of applied behavioral science, has been named the new associate vice provost for graduate studies at the University of Kansas. His appointment became effective Jan. 1. ...
Self Graduate Fellowship announces anthropology as newly eligible field
Anthropology is now approved as an eligible field for the University of Kansas’ prestigious Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship. With its addition, there are 22 eligible doctoral fields for the Self Graduate Fellowship. Nominations by eligible departments are due Jan. 24 for the 2024-2028 cohort of Self Graduate...
New children’s book pays tribute to Toni Morrison
Engineering professor receives DARPA grant for research on radar signal processing
Author makes case for data-driven language learning
Professors recognized for commitment, mentorship to graduate students
Two University of Kansas educators received honors for their dedication to fostering personal and professional development of graduate students. ...
Research offers a reason why diversity in plant species causes higher farming yield, solving ‘a bit of a mystery’
KU Center for Public Partnerships & Research to lead statewide needs assessment of substance use disorder systems
Literary inquiry explores legacy of poet, journalist Frank Marshall Davis
Frank Marshall Davis was virtually lost to the canon of African American poets when he left the 48 contiguous states for the Territory of Hawaii in 1948. Twenty-five years later, he would be discovered and brought back to the mainland to an appreciative audience of students at several historically Black...
Achievement & Assessment Institute announces recipient of 2023 AAI Art & Humanities Grant
involves hosting gamified storytelling and art sessions both on and off campus in 2024 facilitated by the AfroRithm Futures Group, an “Afrofuturist consultancy and storytelling collective,” using their game, Afrorithms From the Future. The storytelling and exploration card game invites players to imagine anti-racist futures together by creating “artifacts” that...
Ultrafast lasers map electrons 'going ballistic' in graphene, with implications for next-gen electronic devices
Research appearing in ACS Nano, a premier journal on nanoscience and nanotechnology, reveals the ballistic movement of electrons in graphene in real time. ...
Advantages of scheduling retail employees with higher performers revealed in new study
One barely has to wade into a Reddit thread in which workers whine about their employer before encountering something related to shifts. This often focuses on with whom a worker is scheduled and how that makes things better or worse. ...
Survey finds chain store pharmacy employees dissatisfied with working conditions
A newly published survey reveals that chain store pharmacists and pharmacy technicians were dissatisfied with certain job conditions even before the COVID-19 pandemic increased their stress, and it sheds light on some of the strike actions they've undertaken this year. ...
University recognizes November 2023 Employees of the Month
The University of Kansas has announced Employees of the Month for November 2023. These staff members have made outstanding contributions to the KU Lawrence community. ...
Dole Institute continues work on new NEH grant to expand online portal for congressional archives
In July, the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas began work to expand the American Congress Digital Archives Portal, along with partner institutions, as part of a nearly $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. ...
Kansas Geological Survey, state agency to measure groundwater levels in western Kansas
Google Earth creator Brian McClendon is KU’s newest National Academy of Inventors Fellow
The National Academy of Inventors has added another Jayhawk to its fellows. ...
$1M Mellon Foundation grant will boost transgender studies at KU
The University of Kansas Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies has received a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to deepen the department’s work in transgender studies. ...
KU architecture class partners with Lawrence elementary school to construct shade structure
A University of Kansas architecture class is bringing a slice of shade to a playground at Lawrence’s Hillcrest Elementary School that’s billed as the first fully accessible playground in Kansas. ...
Paul Popiel named dean of KU School of Music
The University of Kansas has selected Paul Popiel as the next dean of the KU School of Music. Popiel has served as the interim dean since January. He has been a professor of music at KU since 2010. ...
Media advisory: KU expert available to discuss proposed changes to U.S. Census and how people with disabilities are counted
Through Dec. 19, the U.S. Census Bureau is accepting public comment on proposed changes to the American Community Survey — the most comprehensive survey of American life. A University of Kansas expert on disability studies is available to discuss with reporters the proposals that are raising concerns among disability advocates. ...
Ecology and evolutionary biology professor receives NSF Career Award
Kelly Matsunaga, assistant curator of paleobotany and Thomas N. Taylor Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. ...
Scholars say it’s time to declare a new epoch on the moon, the ‘Lunar Anthropocene’
Human beings first disturbed moon dust Sept. 13, 1959, when the USSR’s unmanned spacecraft Luna 2 alighted on the lunar surface. In the following decades, more than a hundred other spacecraft have touched the moon — both crewed and uncrewed, sometimes landing and sometimes crashing. The most famous of these...
KU alumni honor the legacy of longtime KU Libraries administrator
More than 35 years after working at Watson Library at the University of Kansas, Cliff Haka returned to the stacks with his wife, Sue Haka, to honor someone who made a big impact on his life: the late James Ranz, who served as dean of KU Libraries from 1975 to...