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New NAFTA has good, bad news; Trump likely to mistakenly oversell it, trade law expert says
LAWRENCE — 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...
Leadership to expand undergraduate experiential learning opportunities at KU
LAWRENCE — 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 grows enrollment for fifth straight year, sets all-time highs in key metrics
LAWRENCE — It is a record-setting year for the University of Kansas. ...
KU Endowment board elects new chair, trustees
LAWRENCE — 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
LAWRENCE — 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...
KU to host conference on cybersecurity for the ‘Internet of Things’
Additional discussions 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
LAWRENCE — 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
LAWRENCE — 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. ...
Researchers develop airborne radars to gauge US snowpack characteristics for water models
Study explores how efforts to make science relevant to diverse populations inadvertently create divisions
LAWRENCE — 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...
Neighborhood conditions play important role in mortality but vary by race, study finds
Third candidate for vice chancellor for research to present Thursday
LAWRNCE — Indiana University’s Vice Chancellor for Research Simon Atkinson will make a public presentation Thursday, Sept. 27, as a candidate for vice chancellor for research at the University of Kansas. ...
KU recognizes two educators with Chancellors Club professorships
LAWRENCE — 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. ...
United Way campus fund drive will begin Oct. 1 with Kickoff Fair
LAWRENCE — 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. ...
Eight KU seniors named finalists for 28th annual Ex.C.E.L. Awards
LAWRENCE — 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...
Possible Rosenstein resignation or ouster would severely test rule of law in US, professor says
LAWRENCE — 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...
KU announces Mortar Board inductees
LAWRENCE — 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
LAWRENCE — 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
LAWRENCE — 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
LAWRENCE — 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. ...
KU welcomes 63 new tenured and tenure-track faculty to campus
LAWRENCE — Sixty-three new tenured and tenure-track faculty members joined the University of Kansas Lawrence and Edwards campuses this year, representing a wide variety of scholarly expertise and contributions. ...
KU celebrates Jewish literature and creative writing in the heartland with Oct. 21 event
LAWRENCE — A one-day writing workshop and symposium will celebrate Jewish literature and creative writing in the heartland. ...
Outstanding undergraduates selected as Hall Center Scholars
LAWRENCE — 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
LAWRENCE — 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...
Digital scholarship rescues ethnographic cookbook from oblivion
LAWRENCE — Cultural anthropologist Laura Hobson Herlihy is from New Orleans, so she knew a thing or two about Caribbean cuisine and culture before she traveled to Honduras on an academic research trip in 1997. ...
Anxiety surrounding mass shootings does briefly close ideological divides
LAWRENCE — 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. ...