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International legal scholar to compare constitutions at KU lecture
LAWRENCE — How can constitutions serve as foundations for further developments in human rights and policy? Legal scholar Roberto Toniatti will explore that question on a global scale when he delivers the Robert C. Casad Comparative Law Lecture at the University of Kansas. ...
Emily Taylor Center director to retire
LAWRENCE — The longtime director of the Emily Taylor Resource Center for Women & Gender Equity at the University of Kansas will retire at the end of the fiscal year. ...
'Brown Girls' screenings planned in conjunction with poets' visit
LAWRENCE — As part of its collaborative speaker series, The Commons at the University of Kansas and the Raven Book Store will bring Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo to speak at 7 p.m. Feb. 5 at Liberty Hall. ...
Submit a nomination for Student Employee of the Year
LAWRENCE — The University Career Center is now accepting nominations for Student Employee of the Year. Nominations are open until Feb. 8. The award was established to recognize student employees who embody service excellence, dedication and stellar academic achievement. Any supervisor may nominate up to three students for the award. ...
One Day. One KU. returns for 24 hours of giving to support KU
LAWRENCE — After a successful first year in 2018, the 24-hour giving campaign One Day. One KU. returns Wednesday, Feb. 20, to support the University of Kansas. ...
KU professors 'Each Acre' intends to change hearts through plant thinking
Student Affairs, RISE KU provide menstrual products for students
LAWRENCE — The Office of the Vice Provost for Student Affairs and Rise KU, a student advocacy group, announce the launch of Period, a program that makes free menstrual products available in 50 restrooms in 21 buildings across the Lawrence campus. ...
Donations sought for professional clothing closet
LAWRENCE — The University Career Center is collecting professional attire to stock The P.H.O.G. (The Professional House of Garments), the professional clothing closet at the University of Kansas. The P.H.O.G. provides students access to free professional and business casual attire appropriate for career fairs, interviews and the workplace. Inventory includes...
Number of women running for president extraordinary, though coverage problematic, professor says
LAWRENCE — Kamala Harris, a Democratic U.S. senator from California, announced Monday she is running for president in 2020, making her the fourth woman to announce she will seek a major party nomination in the upcoming election. ...
Carly Fiorina, Major Garrett among Dole Institute spring presenters
LAWRENCE – The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas has unveiled its full schedule of programming for the spring 2019 semester. The slate is led by April events with Major Garrett, chief Washington correspondent for CBS News, and Carly Fiorina, former HP chief executive and...
Article examines racially skewed school discipline, proposes initial solutions
LAWRENCE — In 2015, a black female high school student in South Carolina was slammed to the floor and dragged out of a classroom by a white sheriff’s deputy in a case that made national headlines. Since then, police shootings of unarmed black Americans and incidents of law enforcement being...
Writer, activist Jose Antonio Vargas to discuss immigrants' rights
LAWRENCE — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas will deliver a timely talk on the rights of immigrants with his presentation this week at Liberty Hall. ...
KU community remembers social welfare faculty member Andrew Zinn
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas community is remembering Andrew Zinn, associate professor of social welfare, who died Dec. 28. He was 54. ...
KPR’s 'Retro Cocktail Hour' will bring warm weather vibes with a concert by the Tiki Torches
LAWRENCE – Kansas Public Radio’s “Retro Cocktail Hour” will shake away the winter blues with a Kansas Tiki Week performance by the Tiki Torches at 8 p.m. Feb. 23 at Maceli’s in downtown Lawrence. Doors open at 7 p.m. ...
Patty Gentrup named interim director of Public Management Center
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas School of Public Affairs & Administration has named Patty Gentrup as interim director of the Public Management Center (PMC). Laura Howard resigned from the position last week when Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly appointed her to serve as interim director of two key state social...
University Press of Kansas launches new publishing options
LAWRENCE — Faculty and researchers at the University of Kansas will find new services to help put their work into the hands of others. The University Press of Kansas (UPK) has earned a reputation for publishing distinguished scholarship, and now it is launching a new supplementary publishing services program intended...
Recent KU engineering graduate wins international recognition for dissertation
LAWRENCE — A recent University of Kansas graduate has won international recognition for his dissertation proposing innovative advances to radar technology. ...
US News & World Report highlights KU online programs in 2019 rankings
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has three programs ranked among the nation’s best in the 2019 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Online Programs,” released today. ...
Potential USA Today publishing company buyout would continue trend of seeking profit over viability, professor says
LAWRENCE — The publishing company that produces USA Today, one of the country’s largest newspapers, has received a buyout bid of $1.36 billion from MNG Enterprises, better known as Digital First Media. Gannett Co. has been targeted by the company, which has a history of taking over newspapers and cutting...
Natural History Museum announces spring programming
Editor's note: The University of Kansas Natural History Museum is offering free admission to the museum for all furloughed federal workers and their families during the federal government shutdown, waiving the suggested contribution. ...
Study finds students learning Cherokee writing developed previously unknown, 'idiosyncratic' style
LAWRENCE — Cherokee is spoken as a first language by fewer than 5,000 people, yet in recent years it has experienced a remarkable revival as a second language. But what happens when entire generations may have learned to speak the language but not read or write it? Research from the...
KU announces several Martin Luther King Jr. celebratory events
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas will lead several community events to help celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in Lawrence. ...
Agah selected to lead School of Engineering as dean
LAWRENCE — 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...
Spencer Museum, Charlotte Street Foundation launch 10th year of Rocket Grants program
Prestigious NEH grant to support project on Soviet defections
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas historian has received a prestigious $60,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to complete his book project on the history of defection from the Soviet Union and what it can tell us about the nature of Cold War borders. ...