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Homeland security simulation prepares military, veteran, civilian students for real-world emergencies
– Local emergency management teams have a new tool at their disposal. Military, veteran and civilian students in the University of Kansas’ new homeland security master’s program created and implemented an emergency plan for a long-term blackout during a simulation-style practicum June 18-19 at the KU Edwards Campus in Overland...
Sociology department announces spring awards
University of Kansas sociology students recently received awards and scholarships for outstanding academic achievements in two department ceremonies. ...
Study shows approach can help English learners improve at math word problems
English learners are the fastest-growing minority in U.S. schools. While they face many of the same challenges as their peers, when it comes to mathematics, they are not only learning to work with numbers but doing so through the dynamic of a second language that presents new difficulties, especially with...
Separation of children from parents shown to have lifelong, detrimental effects, KU child welfare experts say
The Trump administration has shown no signs of stopping or changing its policy on separating children from families at the country’s southern border when families are accused of entering the country illegally. Criticism has been growing from Republicans and Democrats alike about the practice, while the administration has defended its...
KU Libraries selected by U.S. Government Printing Office to serve as preservation steward
The University of Kansas Libraries have been selected as a preservation steward for the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO). KU Libraries were designated a Federal Depository Library in 1869 and a Regional Depository Library in 1976. These designations, along with the conservation services department's expertise in preservation, make the libraries...
New model for gauging ice sheet movement may improve sea-level-rise predictions
A just-published paper in Science changes the formula scientists should use when estimating the speed of huge ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica that flow into the ocean and drive mounting sea levels around the globe. ...
KU to complete tobacco free transition July 1
of tobacco use, including vaping and e-cigarettes, will be barred on university grounds. The KU Medical Center campus as well as several Kansas Board of Regents institutions — Kansas State, Pittsburg State, Wichita State, Emporia State and Fort Hays State universities — have already made the transition to smoke-free and...
KPR will host 2nd annual Ice Cream Social
Kansas Public Radio wants to say “thank you.” The public radio station is hosting an ice cream social in Lawrence to show appreciation to their listening community for supporting the station. ...
Aerospace engineering’s innovative 'hexcopter' design earns prestigious GoFly Prize
A team from the University of Kansas School of Engineering is one of 10 winners in Phase I of the GoFly Prize, an international aviation competition sponsored by Boeing. ...
KU recognizes April Employees of the Month
The University of Kansas has announced the April 2018 Employees of the Month. They are as follows:...
Homeland security simulation will prepare military, veteran, civilian students for real-world emergencies
– Homeland security professionals work in an increasingly complex environment, requiring high-level critical and creative thinking. A lot has changed in the 17 years since 9/11, and the latest Homeland Security Research Corp. study forecasts major shifts and significant growth between now and 2022. ...
Six Kansas artists featured in new Salina Health Education Center
Six Kansas artists have created site-specific artwork for the Salina Health Education Center — the new home of the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Salina and the KU School of Nursing-Salina — which will have its grand opening June 21. The selected artists come from across the state, and their...
Audit quality matters to mutual fund investors, study finds
It is common knowledge that investments flow into mutual funds that report strong past performance, but this positive association appears to be stronger when a fund's audit quality is taken into account, according to a study that includes two University of Kansas School of Business professors. ...
For 100 million years, amber freezes a tableau of Burmese bugs’ life-and-death struggle
One day in Myanmar during the Cretaceous period, a tick managed to ensnare itself in a spider web. Realizing its predicament, the tick struggled to get free. But the spider that built the web was having none of it. The spider popped over to the doomed tick and quickly wrapped...
American Studies seminar includes trip to border wall, view of U.S.-Mexico divisions, issues
National award recognizes urban planning course on statistics, diversity, compassionate planning
A University of Kansas urban planning professor has received a prestigious award for creating an innovative curriculum surrounding planning, research methods, and diversity, equity and inclusion. ...
KU, community colleges, K-12 schools partner to accelerate education path for KC students
— High school students across the Kansas City metropolitan area have a new, accelerated path to a bachelor’s degree. Area school districts and community colleges joined the University of Kansas to formalize the Degree in 3 program during a signing event June 12 at the KU Edwards Campus. ...
10 KU students receive Undergraduate Research Awards for summer
This summer, 10 KU students will receive Undergraduate Research Awards (UGRAs). The recipients are each awarded a $1,000 scholarship as they work on mentored research and creative projects. ...
Family-friendly event kicks off museum's efforts to replace iconic grotesques
Combining the old arts of stonecraft and sketching with modern 3-D imaging, the University of Kansas Natural History Museum is launching an effort to replace its iconic grotesques. ...
Study shows economics, biology support idea that dominant practice of public relations, competition, is not best
Within public relations, the standard practice of looking out for No. 1 and viewing relationships as sources of conflict and competition is defended by best-selling textbooks and a generation of research. A growing body of scientific evidence, however, supports a different vision of PR, a University of Kansas researcher has...
Reaction to policies, deeper bench has fueled LGBT candidates in Texas, political scientist says
More than 50 LGBT candidates in conservative-leaning Texas are running for political office this cycle, likely a response to the current national climate and developments of the past two decades, according to a University of Kansas researcher who studies LGBT candidates. ...
University community mourns economist Shu Wu
The University of Kansas community is mourning the May 31 death of Shu Wu, associate professor of economics. He was 51. ...
Teacher leaves $7.4 million to university
A retired high school teacher in Concordia has left a $7.4 million estate gift to benefit students majoring in the arts, humanities and education at the University of Kansas. ...
English professor joins Playwrights’ Center family
With an upcoming sabbatical from his teaching duties, a Hall Center for the Humanities Fellowship and now the support that comes from having been named a Core Writer by the Minneapolis-based Playwrights’ Center, Associate Professor of English Darren Canady has only the blank page to conquer. ...
How discussions about religious beliefs bridged a divide at a Nigerian women's shelter
Most citizens of Nigeria deeply distrust the Nigerian government, but at one state-run shelter for human trafficking victims, many young migrant women are finding common ground with state officials through religious beliefs and discussions about potential divine intervention in their lives, according to research by a University of Kansas professor. ...
Move over, 'Laurel or Yanny': New study looks at why we perceive talking as singing after repeatedly hearing a phrase
The great Laurel-or-Yanny debate of 2018 was so fun because it shined a light on the often-illusory nature of auditory perception. What you hear may not be the same as what somebody else hears. Or, perhaps what you hear could change over time. What surely was “Yanny” to some people...
New Morse Code taps out tunes
There’s not a lot of repertoire for cello and percussion, so University of Kansas faculty members Hannah Collins and Michael Compitello, the cellist and percussionist, respectively, who form the duo New Morse Code, commissioned some of their favorite composers to write for them. ...
Audio-Reader accepting donations of vinyl records, CDs, audio equipment for annual benefit sale
Anyone with vinyl records, CDs, gently used audio equipment or musical instruments gathering dust in their homes is encouraged to consider donating them to the KU Audio-Reader Network, a nonprofit that serves the blind, visually impaired and print-disabled. ...
KU, community colleges, K-12 schools partner to accelerate education path for KC students
– Ten of the largest education institutions in the Kansas City metropolitan area are joining forces across the state line, enabling students to earn a bachelor’s degree in only three years. This new partnership potentially reduces students’ cost of earning a degree and accelerates their entrance into the Kansas City...
Book looks at global significance of German Anna Seghers' authorship
After being forced to flee Germany during World War II due to her anti-fascist stances, author Anna Seghers returned in 1947, eventually moving to East Berlin. ...