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KU announces several Martin Luther King Jr. celebratory events
event to commemorate the day will take place along Jayhawk Boulevard on Tuesday, Jan. 22, the first day of the spring 2019 semester. ...
Agah selected to lead School of Engineering as dean
When University of Kansas students return to the School of Engineering at the start of the spring semester, they’ll find a familiar face and name occupying the dean’s office. Arvin Agah, interim dean of engineering and professor of electrical engineering & computer science, has been chosen to be the next...
KU Libraries accepting applications for 4th annual faculty Research Sprints
The University of Kansas Libraries are now accepting applications for the fourth annual Research Sprints, a program offering faculty and academic staff the chance to work intensively with a team of expert librarians for one week on a research or instruction project. ...
Students will visit pharmacy sites around southeast Kansas
Sixteen University of Kansas School of Pharmacy students will take a three-day trip across Kansas next week to visit 14 independent community pharmacies. ...
Engineering professor named IEEE Fellow
Joe Evans, Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Kansas, has been named a Fellow in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Evans is recognized for contributions to cognitive networks and deployment of defense networks. ...
Book probes religious lives of prominent black Americans
There have been two biographies of jazz piano great Mary Lou Williams. There are two biographies of singer and actor Ethel Waters, as well as her two autobiographical memoirs, “His Eye is on the Sparrow” and “To Me It’s Wonderful.” Black Panther Party founder Eldridge Cleaver wrote two autobiographies –...
Marketing class helping Negro Leagues Baseball Museum share its unique story
While most college students were far away from campuses and classrooms, spending time with family or recovering from the stress of finals, a dedicated group of University of Kansas students spent winter break evenings in a classroom talking baseball. More specifically, they developed marketing plans to help share the stories...
Researcher evaluates estrogen as therapy for knee osteoarthritis
More than 30 million Americans suffer from osteoarthritis of the knee, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The degenerative joint disease, often caused by wear and tear, is a leading cause of disability in the U.S. Partly triggered by a breakdown in the fibrocartilage between the bones...
Engineering, computer science professor recognized for teaching excellence
James Stiles, a longtime associate professor of electrical engineering & computer science at the University of Kansas, has been named the recipient of the 2018 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Professorship. ...
Students, staff invited to brown bag lunches to discuss Kansas legislative session
Students and staff are invited to a series of brown bag lunches to discuss the 2019 Kansas legislative session. ...
KLETC announces law enforcement training graduates
Sixty new law enforcement officers graduated from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC) last month. McPherson Police Chief Robert McClarty was the speaker for the ceremony in KLETC’s Integrity Auditorium. ...
What the history of Greek-American picture brides says about US immigration
A University of Kansas graduate student has won a national award for her research on the history of Greek-American picture brides and their intricate role in the ways Greek immigrants in the early 20th century navigated their racial position upon arrival to the United States. Promoting their family values and...
Kansas Geological Survey to measure groundwater levels in western Kansas
A crew from the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas, will be in western Kansas measuring groundwater levels the first week of January. Most of the measured wells are drilled into the High Plains aquifer, a vital source of irrigation, industrial and municipal water in the region. ...
Moving stars: McKitterick puts science in his fiction
Before Christopher McKitterick could sell his latest novella to the venerable pulp magazine Analog Science Fiction and Fact, the editors insisted he justify one of the story’s central conceits: Rather than send individuals on space missions in rocket ships, the protagonist’s civilization itself – an entire solar system – altered...
Gift enables geology department to purchase key Colorado property
Nearly 90 years after Robert "Bob" Harrison (class of 1938) had the adventure of a lifetime as a University of Kansas geology student, his family has made it possible for future students to enjoy and learn from the same experience. ...
$3.5M gift creates Center for Construction Safety at School of Engineering
A gift of $3.5 million from University of Kansas alumnus Craig Martin and his wife, Diane, of Pasadena, California, establishes a center for construction safety at the School of Engineering. ...
KU announces Kansas Certified Public Manager Program graduates for 2018
The University of Kansas Public Management Center has announced this year’s graduates of the Kansas Certified Public Manager program, who represent the 25th-anniversary class. The graduation ceremony took place last month in the House Chamber at the Capitol in Topeka. Erik Sartorius, executive director of the League of Kansas Municipalities,...
Senior nominated for Winston Churchill Scholarship
A University of Kansas student has been nominated for the Winston Churchill Scholarship, which provides for one year of study at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. ...
Extraordinary 'faithful father' revealed by study of smooth guardian frog of Borneo
Stay-at-home dads might find their spirit animal in the smooth guardian frog of Borneo. A new pair of research papers authored by an investigator at the University of Kansas shows the male of the smooth guardian frog species (Limnonectes palavanensis) is a kind of amphibian “Mr. Mom” — an exemplar...
KU Libraries announce winners of 2018 Shulenburger Award
KU Libraries are pleased to announce the 2018 recipients of the Shulenburger Award for Innovation & Advocacy in Scholarly Communication. They are Donna Ginther, professor of economics and director of the Center for Science Technology & Economic Policy, and Jonathan Perkins, director of the Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center (EGARC). ...
Results from national survey of students show areas where KU excels
Students at the University of Kansas report significantly higher levels of interaction with their faculty than an average of other students at many of the nation’s top research universities. ...
Professor discovers unpublished George Orwell human rights manifesto
A recent discovery by a University of Kansas sociologist reveals that author George Orwell not only vocally advocated human rights but attempted, in the years between writing "Animal Farm" in 1945 and "1984" in 1949, to found an international body that would defend human rights in the tense aftermath of...
Book documents do-it-yourself architecture of Studio 804
KU’s design-build “starchitect” Dan Rockhill is a big, gruff man dressed all in black, from his dusty work boots and coveralls to the wool scarf knotted under his neck (it’s cold in the warehouse this December morning, not to mention the job site), setting off his slicked-back white hair. ...
KU faculty member elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
A University of Kansas professor who helped to develop a refrigerant that is safe for the Earth’s ozone layer is among the ranks of the latest class of Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), one of the highest honors given to academic inventors. ...
University announces fall 2018 candidates for degree
The names of nearly 1,350 candidates for degree from the University of Kansas this fall — representing 51 Kansas counties, 44 other states and 23 other countries — have been announced by the University Registrar. Degrees are officially conferred in January. ...
Researchers consider whether supernovae killed off large ocean animals at dawn of Pleistocene
About 2.6 million years ago, an oddly bright light arrived in the prehistoric sky and lingered there for weeks or months. It was a supernova some 150 light years away from Earth. Within a few hundred years, long after the strange light in the sky had dwindled, a tsunami of...
New book among first to examine how people with disabilities can take legal, decision-making lead in lives
For decades, increasing numbers of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have lived their adult lives under legal guardianships. A new book co-authored by University of Kansas and Syracuse University researchers is among the first to explore a fundamentally new way of empowering people with disabilities to retain legal agency...
Two KU professors named as AAAS Fellows
Two faculty members of the University of Kansas are among the latest group of fellows announced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). ...
Study: Most people overestimate total number of US gun owners
Most people vastly overestimate the population of gun owners in the United States, and it potentially influences how groups approach gun policies, according to a study by two University of Kansas political scientists. ...