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Holly Storkel named vice provost for assessment and program development
LAWRENCE — Professor Holly Storkel, the associate dean for academic innovation and student success in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Kansas, has been appointed to a part-time position as vice provost, focused on academic program assessment. ...
KU Engineering launches Career Accelerator Lecture Series
LAWRENCE — Engineering students at the University of Kansas will have a new opportunity to learn more about the business side of their profession in a new lecture series starting this fall. ...
School of Architecture & Design appoints Nisha Fernando as director of Interior Architecture program
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design has appointed Nisha Fernando as director of the Interior Architecture program. ...
State personalized learning plans need common definition, more support, researchers say
LAWRENCE — In 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Act, the most recent piece of major federal education policy, required and incentivized states to address the needs of individual learners through practices including personalized learning. University of Kansas researchers have co-written a pair of studies showing that while all states have...
KGS scientist receives national award for groundwater research
LAWRENCE — Jim Butler, senior scientist and geohydrologist at the Kansas Geological Survey, is the 2020 recipient of the National Ground Water Association’s M. King Hubbert Award. ...
Study: New voting laws continue disenfranchisement, put elections administrators in difficult positions
US-China trade war affects Greater KC area businesses
LAWRENCE — During war, the costs of conflict must be outweighed by measurable gains. That also applies to a trade war. ...
Collaborative experiments in embodiment lead to open minds
LAWRENCE – Two University of Kansas professors contend in a new paper that you can bring together two seemingly unrelated classes to the benefit of each if they have “(e)nough connective tissue ... for grafts to take hold and grow, and enough difference to generate new possibilities.”...
Panelists will discuss women's civic leadership at virtual event
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas series dedicated to increasing the number of women’s voices in civic spaces across the state will begin fall programming this week with a virtual panel discussion that will include DeAngela Burns-Wallace, the Kansas secretary of administration. ...
University Career Center hosting virtual Part-Time Job Fair (Opens in new window)
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas students looking to supplement their income for the fall semester can search for available jobs and schedule appointments with potential employers at an event this week hosted by the University Career Center. ...
As students return to school, inequality, racial bias brought to fore, ed expert says
LAWRENCE — Schools across the country are reopening, and students are returning to classrooms with many questions lingering beyond how they will stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the pandemic has affected communities of color disproportionately, it illustrates how education in America still struggles with questions of equity, race,...
'Red Power' at 50: Book, exhibition recall American Indian leader’s transformative life
Discovery lays blame on supernova for extinction event nearly 360 million years ago
LAWRENCE — Between a decline in biodiversity and a series of extinction events, the Late Devonian period was not the most hospitable time on Earth. ...
New publication examines ‘Food in the Time of COVID-19’
LAWRENCE — Few processes have been as disrupted by the pandemic as simply eating a meal. ...
KPR Wins Station of the Year for record 19th time
LAWRENCE – Kansas Public Radio, based at the University of Kansas, has earned the Station of the Year award for a record 19th time from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters (KAB). The KAB announced the award Aug. 12. ...
Staggered move-in process occurring now; heavier traffic expected Thursday through Sunday
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas employees and the Lawrence community should anticipate heavier traffic than normal from Thursday through Sunday, Aug. 20-23, as many Student Housing residents will move in on those days. Also, many residents staged their rooms by appointment in advance and then returned home. Those students are...
$1M gift establishes KU architecture professorship
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas architecture professor Lou Michel had a way of making an impression on his students. ...
Dole Institute announces slate of digital fall 2020 programs
LAWRENCE — The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas has announced its programming lineup for the fall 2020 semester. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, all programs will be solely virtual. Guests and audiences will watch and participate in these events from the comfort and...
New findings refute idea of migration mortality as major reason for declining monarch population
LAWRENCE — In a new study, Monarch Watch Director Chip Taylor and colleagues have shown that speculation regarding the declining monarch population, despite having received much attention, is unsupported. ...
History of police brutality informs Willmott’s ‘The 24th'
LAWRENCE – Kevin Willmott knows well how old the story of anti-Black police brutality is. More than 20 years ago, he began writing a screenplay about the so-called Houston race riot of 1917, when Black soldiers rose up against racist cops. ...
KU to use new app to assist with responsibly reopening campus
LAWRENCE — After a successful pilot project, the University of Kansas will reopen to students, faculty and staff this fall by requiring them to use a mobile health app to check for symptoms of the COVID-19 virus before allowing them entrance to campus buildings. ...
Kansas Geological Survey in partnership to research underground storage of carbon dioxide
LAWRENCE — For two decades, the Kansas Geological Survey has been investigating the state's subsurface geology and industrial infrastructure to determine the safety and viability of injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial sources into underground rock formations for long-term storage and to recover hard-to-reach oil. As part of an initiative...
Teaching Zora Neale Hurston to the Black Lives Matter generation
LAWRENCE – Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is in no danger of being forgotten any time soon. Although overlooked at the time of its publication, it has since come to be considered a masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance. ...
Poet José Olivarez to give virtual reading for Hall Center Summer Speaker Series
LAWRENCE — The next event in the Hall Center Summer Speaker Series will be "An Evening with José Olivarez," presented via Zoom at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 12. ...
KU research center publishes new edition of disability language guidelines
LAWRENCE — The Research and Training Center on Independent Living (RTC/IL), a research center at the Life Span Institute at the University of Kansas, celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by releasing the ninth edition of Guidelines: How to Write about People with Disabilities. ...
KU names next director of the Center for Sexuality & Gender Diversity
LAWRENCE — Kristopher Oliveira has been selected to lead the Center for Sexuality & Gender Diversity at the University of Kansas. ...