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Inaugural speaker for engineering lecture series will discuss robotics in pediatric health care
LAWRENCE — Will robots someday socially engage with kids with special needs? A pioneer in the field of robotics will discuss the possibilities when she kicks off a new lecture series in October at the University of Kansas School of Engineering. ...
KU's SWIFT Education Center lands $17M grant to train principals, boost school achievement
Langston Hughes Visiting Professor Lecture to explore role of community in design solutions
LAWRENCE — Firsthand experience with neighborhoods can create designs that lead to healthier communities. That’s the principle to be discussed during the fall 2018 Langston Hughes Visiting Professor Lecture. ...
Henderson Engineers executive to deliver J.A. Tiberti Family Lecture
LAWRENCE — Julie Pierce, a 1994 graduate of the University of Kansas School of Engineering, will return to campus in October to lecture on “Engineering Your Future With Passion and Purpose.”...
KU international centers awarded $6.3M in grants
LAWRENCE — Employers on the lookout for job candidates with the intercultural awareness to work in an increasingly globalized world can look to Kansas to find students prepared with linguistic and cultural knowledge necessary to succeed. With recent awards totaling $6.3 million from the Department of Education, KU will continue...
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: How secure are you?
LAWRENCE — Nearly 7 million digital records are stolen every day, according to IT security firm Gemalto. That’s almost 300,000 per hour, or 83 every second. That means this month, hackers will steal roughly 217 million records. Is your information safe? ...
'Surprising’ chemical complexity of Saturn’s rings is changing the planet’s upper atmosphere
Department’s 2018 Dr. Bob Run 5K Event set for Oct. 6
LAWRENCE — The Department of Health, Sport & Exercise Sciences at the University of Kansas invites walkers and runners to participate in the ninth annual Dr. Bob Run 5K Event, supporting student scholarships. The 2018 Dr. Bob Run event will take place at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at Rim...
Final candidate for vice chancellor for research to present Friday
LAWRENCE — Richard Hichwa, University of Iowa senior associate vice president for research and economic development, will make a public presentation Friday, Oct. 5, as a candidate for vice chancellor for research at the University of Kansas. ...
KU to mark Indigenous Peoples' Day with public events
LAWRENCE — Students, faculty, staff and the general public will have the chance to commemorate Indigenous Peoples’ Day through two events Monday, Oct. 8, at the University of Kansas. ...
KU to participate in sexual assault climate survey
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas will join 32 other universities participating in a national campus climate survey on sexual assault and misconduct. ...
Gift to Dole Institute launches Edward F. Reilly Lecture
LAWRENCE – The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas announced this week a gift from Edward F. Reilly Jr., to establish and endow the Edward F. Reilly Lecture. The inaugural lecture will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, at the institute. ...
Professors establish new professional society focused on catalysis
LAWRENCE — Faculty members from the University of Kansas School of Engineering have joined forces with academics and corporations across the region to form a new professional society, the Great Plains Catalysis Society (GPCS). ...
University community mourns death of business professor emeritus Bill Beedles
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas community is grieving the death of Bill Beedles, professor emeritus of finance from the School of Business. Beedles died Sept. 24. He was 70. ...
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. ...
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...
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...
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. ...
Study shows how media's influence on public opinion varies by country
LAWRENCE — 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...
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...