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Duke scholar will present 'The Jews in the Show'
Duke University Professor Beth Holmgren will present “The Jews in the Show: Performing Poland for the Allies, 1942-1945” at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 29, in the English Room of the Kansas Union. ...
Kansas Geological Survey honors outstanding employee
Shelby Peterie, research geophysicist at the Kansas Geological Survey, has received the fifth annual KGS Outstanding Support Staff Recognition Award. ...
Kansas-themed event launches expanded museum programming
The KU Natural History Museum kicks off expanded programs for families, scouts, KU students, home-school groups and adults starting this weekend with an event dedicated to celebrating Kansas wildlife, plants and fossils. ...
KU Architecture & Design on short list of world's top programs
as KU strengths the renowned Studio 804 and course development that incorporates input from international professionals. Azure editors noted KU’s global-study programs that immerse students in historical and modern architecture. They also touted the distinctive local opportunity KU offers through Studio 804 – a boot camp-like, hands-on experience for master’s...
KU announces fall 2017 Emerging Leaders Academy graduates
The University of Kansas Public Management Center has announced the fall 2017 Emerging Leaders Academy (ELA) graduates. The graduation ceremony took place Jan. 12 in the Griffith Room at the Oread Hotel in Lawrence. ...
Research reveals swaths of Asia inhabited by surprisingly related 'Lizards of the Lost Arcs'
A new paper appearing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows a varied collection of lizards throughout Asia to be unexpectedly close cousins of beach-dwelling mourning geckos, all descended from a common ancestor species that thrived along an ancient archipelago in the West Pacific that served as a “superhighway”...
KU plans first 24-hour day of giving with One Day. One KU.
On Tuesday, Feb. 20, alumni and friends from all over the world will come together to support the University of Kansas for its first 24-hour giving campaign, One Day. One KU. ...
Amid shifting demographics, researchers strive to boost well-being for Wyandotte County with community health plan
A team of public health researchers is finalizing a communitywide health plan for Wyandotte County, the county that encompasses Kansas City, Kansas. The University of Kansas Center for Community Health and Development began a comprehensive yearlong research process in November 2016 that involved stakeholders and policymakers from across the county. ...
KU researchers explore what makes Icelanders so creative
Everyone has heard of a friend, classmate, co-worker or associate described as creative. In Iceland, that descriptor can be applied to the majority of the nation’s population. By many international measures, Iceland is a leading nation in innovation and creativity in a number of fields, including design, music, art and...
Spencer Museum, KU departments honor alumnus and artist Wendell Castle
The Spencer Museum of Art, the University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design and the KU School of the Arts mourn the loss of visionary artist and designer Wendell Castle, who passed away Jan. 20. A native of Emporia, Castle received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in industrial design...
New TPP agreement, tariffs show countries rebuke Trump trade policies, trade law expert says
Eleven countries have announced their intention to forge an Asia-Pacific trade deal after the United States pulled out of the original Trans-Pacific Partnership in 2017. Japan’s economy minister said the agreement would be signed in Chile in March. President Donald Trump has also announced the U.S. would apply steep tariffs...
Business dean announces faculty leadership appointments
University of Kansas School of Business Dean L. Paige Fields announced the appointments of several faculty members to leadership positions and the restructuring of the school’s academic areas. ...
Priming can negate stressful aspects of negative sporting environments, study finds
The scene is ubiquitous in sports: A coach yells at players, creating an environment where winning is the sole focus and mistakes are punished. New research from the University of Kansas shows that when participants find themselves in such an environment, a priming session that includes information about how successful...
Godwin earns pharmacy's top honor
than 50 years of service to the pharmacy profession, Professor Emeritus Harold Godwin has earned the Remington Honor Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). ...
University announces 2018 Global Scholars
Fourteen sophomores at the University of Kansas have been competitively selected as Global Scholars. This program, coordinated by Megan Greene, director of faculty programs for International Programs, recognizes and encourages undergraduate students who have an interest in global studies and a strong academic record. ...
Study looks at 'abortion regret' tactic in some states' legislation
co-authored a study published in the journal Law & Policy with KU political science doctoral candidate Carolina Costa Candal and Steven Sylvester, a KU political science graduate who is currently an assistant professor at Utah Valley University. They wanted to examine how antiabortion activists' experiential knowledge factored into misinformation in...
Alumnus Scot Pollard will host 4th annual bowling tournament to support student scholarships
Scot Pollard and his wife, Dawn, in partnership with the School of Education, will host the fourth annual Pollard Beach Bowling Party on Friday, Jan. 26, at Royal Crest Bowling Lanes. ...
Audio-Reader receives more than $15,000 from Rice Foundation
The University of Kansas Audio-Reader Network, a reading and information service for individuals who are blind, visually impaired and print-disabled, has received a $15,440 grant from the Ethel and Raymond Rice Foundation. The grant will help fund Braille Program Guides, several newspaper subscriptions, and outreach and awareness materials, including production...
Fourth annual conversation on business, race and sports to feature sports writer Claire Smith
The University of Kansas School of Business, the Langston Hughes Center and Kansas Athletics will present “The Power of Sport: A Conversation on Business, Race and Sports” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 1, in the Kansas Union Ballroom. ...
52 students receive Undergraduate Research Awards for spring
This spring, 52 KU students will receive Undergraduate Research Awards (UGRAs). UGRA recipients are awarded a $1,000 scholarship as they work on mentored research and creative projects. ...
Pharmacy students travel across the state
Seventeen KU School of Pharmacy students will take a three-day trip across Kansas to visit 14 independent community pharmacies and their owners Jan 10-12. ...
Kosovar ambassador headlines Dole Institute’s spring offerings
The Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas has announced its full lineup of programs for the spring 2018 semester. ...
Statement from Dole Institute director Bill Lacy on Senator Bob Dole’s Congressional Gold Medal
Trump reaches new low, communication expert says
With controversy over his “shithole” remark still roiling days later and the one-year anniversary of his inauguration Saturday, an expert in presidential rhetoric says iconoclastic President Donald Trump has degraded the office he holds. ...
Artist, poet, scholar Eve Ewing to give poetry lecture
Creative scholar Eve Ewing will deliver the Kenneth A. Spencer Lecture for The Commons at 7 p.m. Jan. 31 at Liberty Hall. Her presentation will be a hybrid lecture and poetry reading, titled “Poetry in Context.”...
Breakthrough enables screening millions of human antibodies for new drug discovery
A paper just published in Nature Biotechnology outlines a pioneering method of screening a person’s diverse set of antibodies for rapid therapeutic discovery. Antibody proteins are an important part of the human immune system that specifically target foreign viruses and bacteria, and they have been the fastest-growing class of approved...
Professor outlines environmental degradation to Mediterranean
Climate change is posing problems around the world to the way people live and feed themselves. In the Mediterranean Basin, a vital region to dozens of nations, it is exacerbating the existing problems of environmental degradation, agricultural land misuse, pollution, population increases and declining species. A University of Kansas law...
Bernstein remains relevant at 100, biographer says
It doesn’t take much to get University of Kansas Professor of Musicology Paul Laird going on the subject of Leonard Bernstein, about whom his new biography is scheduled to be published next month in this, the centennial year of Bernstein’s birth. ...
Canada’s consul general in Denver to discuss NAFTA at KU
The consul general of Canada in Denver, Stéphane Lessard, will deliver a presentation about the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, in Capitol Federal Hall. ...
KU Phi Kappa Phi chapter initiates students
The University of Kansas Chapter 171 of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi initiated more than 140 students as new members during a ceremony at the end of the fall 2017 semester. ...