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New NAFTA has good, bad news; Trump likely to mistakenly oversell it, trade law expert says
Trade officials have announced Canada made a last-minute agreement to join the United States and Mexico in a revamped version of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The announcement means the 25-year-old NAFTA deal will be kept in place, though with new terms, and that Canada will not be left...
KU grows enrollment for fifth straight year, sets all-time highs in key metrics
It is a record-setting year for the University of Kansas. ...
Study shows how media's influence on public opinion varies by country
An old adage in journalism research holds that the media can’t tell you what to think, but it can tell you what to think about. A first-of-its-kind study from the University of Kansas shows that despite a rapidly changing media landscape and ever-increasing globalization, factors that affect how people view...
KU Endowment board elects new chair, trustees
At the Sept. 28 annual meeting of the KU Endowment board of trustees, the board elected David Dillon as chair, William Docking as vice chair and two other KU alumni as trustees. Dillon succeeds Deanell Reece Tacha, who served as chair since 2014. ...
KU announces Ex.C.E.L. Award winners, concludes 106th Homecoming celebration
Two University of Kansas students, Jose Montoya of Los Lunas, New Mexico, and Jonnette Oakes of Topeka, are winners of the 28th annual Excellence in Community, Education and Leadership (Ex.C.E.L.) Awards. The award presentation during halftime of the KU-Oklahoma State football game Sept. 29 in the David Booth Kansas Memorial...
Leadership to expand undergraduate experiential learning opportunities at KU
Six years ago the University of Kansas took the bold step of incorporating experiential learning into the new KU Core curriculum. Students responded, engaged and learned. ...
KU to host conference on cybersecurity for the ‘Internet of Things’
will include an industry panel speaking on the challenges of secure communications in diverse markets, as well as select KU faculty speaking on a variety of topics supported by the National Security Agency’s Science of Security Lablet. ...
School of Education to host inaugural Lelon Capps Lecture Series Presentation
The Department of Curriculum & Teaching at the University of Kansas will welcome Jennifer Bay-Williams, author and featured presenter for the inaugural Lelon Capps Lecture Series event. ...
School of Architecture & Design announces 2018 Distinguished Alumni Awards
The School of Architecture & Design (Arc/D) at the University of Kansas has announced the recipients of the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Awards. This year’s honorees are architect John Guenther, Distinguished Alumnus; designer and executive David Hill, Distinguished Alumnus; and architect Laura Eder, Young Architect/Designer. ...
Spencer Museum’s Backyard Bash will celebrate art, nature in Marvin Grove
The Spencer Museum of Art invites the University of Kansas and Lawrence communities to kick back with friends and neighbors in the biggest backyard on KU’s campus — historic Marvin Grove — for an artful celebration of nature. The Backyard Bash is a free community event that will take place...
Researchers develop airborne radars to gauge US snowpack characteristics for water models
Next spring, researchers and students from the University of Kansas will participate in a project using a new ultra-wideband radar soaring on a plane above the Continental Divide to measure the depth and density of snowpack. ...
KU recognizes two educators with Chancellors Club professorships
Two professors from the University of Kansas Medical Center, both well-known as scientists, researchers and educators, now share an additional distinction of being recognized as Chancellors Club Teaching Professors for 2018. ...
Third candidate for vice chancellor for research to present Thursday
the third of four candidates for the position who will make public presentations during their respective campus visits. His presentation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Lied Center Pavilion. A half-hour reception will follow. ...
Neighborhood conditions play important role in mortality but vary by race, study finds
Living in a more disadvantaged neighborhood has a much stronger effect on mortality risk for low-income white Americans than members of a minority group, including black Americans and foreign-born or U.S.-born Hispanic Americans, according to a study that includes a University of Kansas sociology researcher. ...
Study explores how efforts to make science relevant to diverse populations inadvertently create divisions
Around the turn of the 20th century, U.S. educators widely considered certain populations less educated, less healthy and unprepared to be true American citizens. If asked, most might argue those practices have disappeared as social norms have changed — particularly given that many reforms today focus on equity and diversity. ...
Gunn updates his illustrated history of the future
At age 95, author and scholar James Gunn shows no sign of slowing down. ...
Eight KU seniors named finalists for 28th annual Ex.C.E.L. Awards
Eight finalists have been selected for the 28th annual Excellence in Community, Education and Leadership Awards at the University of Kansas. The finalists, all seniors, will participate in the Homecoming parade at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, along Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence. Two winners will be announced during halftime...
United Way campus fund drive will begin Oct. 1 with Kickoff Fair
The 2018 United Way of Douglas County campus fund drive begins Oct. 1 with a Kickoff Fair from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the lawns in front of Watson Library and Stauffer-Flint Hall. ...
Possible Rosenstein resignation or ouster would severely test rule of law in US, professor says
Rod Rosenstein, deputy attorney general, is expected to leave his position, media outlets are reporting, and he will meet with President Donald Trump Thursday to discuss his future. The news comes after it was reported last week he considered invoking the 25th Amendment and secretly recording President Donald Trump to...
KU announces Mortar Board inductees
The Torch chapter of Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society at the University of Kansas has announced its new members. ...
KU Mobile Natural History Museum will make a splash at Douglas County Water Festival
More than 800 fifth-grade students from Douglas County will converge on the Bloomington Park area of Clinton Lake next week for the Douglas County Water Festival. ...
Three sociology faculty members honored with professorships
Three faculty members from the University of Kansas Department of Sociology have been chosen to hold named professorships. Each will be recognized for outstanding contributions to the department, university and profession. ...
KU announces 2018-19 Staff Fellows
Carl Lejuez, interim provost and executive vice chancellor, and Mike Rounds, vice provost for operations, have announced the 2018-2019 class of Staff Fellows at the University of Kansas. ...
'A Man of No Importance': Hopeful, holy and haunted
At first blush, the musical “A Man of No Importance” might seem to resonate only with theatre insiders (it features a play within a play) or with the LGBTQIA community (the main character is a closeted gay man), but Lusie Cuskey, the director of the upcoming University Theatre production, says...
KU welcomes 63 new tenured and tenure-track faculty to campus
KU celebrates Jewish literature and creative writing in the heartland with Oct. 21 event
A one-day writing workshop and symposium will celebrate Jewish literature and creative writing in the heartland. ...
New study examines changing soil structures and influence on water resources in US
From the garden in your backyard to your local watershed to the entirety of North America, structural changes are taking place in the soil underfoot — and evidence suggests it’s happening faster than previously thought, altering water quality and availability throughout the U.S. ...
Outstanding undergraduates selected as Hall Center Scholars
Eight outstanding KU undergraduates have been selected to serve as Hall Center Scholars for 2018-2019. They will have exclusive opportunities to interact with the well-known authors, scholars and public intellectuals who speak in the Hall Center Humanities Lecture Series. The scholars for 2018-19:...
Studies show system to boost self-determination can be implemented on wide scale, help students, teachers
When students with intellectual disability are supported to set and go after goals for their future, based on their dreams, interests and abilities, their educational achievement, goal attainment and post-school employment have all been shown to improve. Two new studies co-authored by University of Kansas researchers have shown that a...
Anxiety surrounding mass shootings does briefly close ideological divides
People who feel anxious surrounding mass shootings tend to abandon their political ideology on typically divided issues, according to a study by two University of Kansas professors. ...