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KU community remembers longtime Spanish language professor Arnold Weiss
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas community is remembering a former faculty member who served the university for 30 years. ...
KU volunteers needed for move-in, first days of class
LAWRENCE — Little things – a map, a bottle of water, a smile – can make a world of difference to KU’s newest Jayhawks. Faculty and staff volunteers are needed to make that difference and assist new students and their families during residence hall move-in day and the first two...
Students receive prestigious scholarships for international study
LAWRENCE — Seventeen outstanding University of Kansas students or recent graduates were selected as recipients of nationally competitive scholarships that will fund overseas study and internships in nine countries this summer and fall. ...
Social, military policy scholar can discuss Trump tweets on reinstating transgender ban
LAWRENCE — President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday morning that he would bar transgender people from serving in the U.S. military, which would reverse a policy shift initiated in 2016 under the Obama administration and still under review. ...
Astronomers discuss do’s and don’ts for viewing Aug. 21 ‘Great American Eclipse’
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Federal grant to help preserve endangered Kiowa language
LAWRENCE — As an amateur linguist growing up among the Kiowa people a century ago, Parker McKenzie devised a method of writing his native language using English letters. Now his great-grandson, University of Kansas Assistant Professor of Linguistics Andrew McKenzie, is completing a book that will go further than ever...
KU researchers partner with First Call to fight opioid epidemic
LAWRENCE — Across the country, people are dying every day as the opioid crisis looms. In the Kansas City area, opioid overdose deaths have quadrupled in the last four years. University of Kansas researchers are partnering with First Call to find out what services are available to people struggling with...
KPR will host cool event for readers
LAWRENCE — Kansas Public Radio is hosting an ice cream social in Lawrence to show appreciation to the listening community for supporting the station. ...
Play tries to move beyond reform-school girls cliches
LAWRENCE — Can an adult male who’s never been incarcerated relate well enough to the experiences of young minority women sentenced to reform school to write something true and moving about that experience? ...
KU researchers determining health care access barriers facing migrant farmworkers across country
LAWRENCE — Millions of migrant and seasonal farmworkers are critical to getting food from farms to our tables, yet they often struggle to meet their own basic needs. They face health risks, barriers to care and poor health outcomes. Because they make vital labor contributions, it is important for both...
Psychologists say our ‘attachment style’ applies to social networks like Facebook
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Policies by France, Volvo could shake up market for gasoline, diesel vehicles, researcher says
LAWRENCE — France's government is seeking to end the sale of gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2040. ...
Canadian health card without baby's sex designation could reshape struggle for transgender rights, policy researcher says
LAWRENCE — Canadian officials have issued a health document to a newborn baby that did not specify the baby's sex, according to national news reports. ...
Graduate research fellow investigates how fungi and fire enable pine savanna ecosystem to thrive
LAWRENCE — For most humans, fire symbolizes destruction and death. Yet nature often adapts to fire and can wield it as a creative force. For example, in the pine savannas of the southeastern U.S., fire acts as a chrysalis from which grasslands and forests spread new stems and unfurl fresh...
KU child research center wins $7.5M in grants to promote high-quality early education
KANSAS CITY, KANSAS — The Juniper Gardens Children’s Project (JGCP), located on the Children’s Campus of Kansas City in Kansas City, Kansas, has been awarded $7.5 million for four new research projects from the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences. JGCP is one of the 13 affiliated research...
Book will tell story of Pakistan, Bangladesh through architecture
LAWRENCE — If it’s not quite a “secret history,” then Farhan Karim’s latest project is at least an overview of an overlooked phenomenon in an important region of the world. ...
KU-developed Fusion Reading program takes new approach to help struggling readers
LAWRENCE — For decades, educators have struggled with how to help students who are struggling with reading or who have reading disabilities to improve their abilities. University of Kansas researchers have been developing a program for the last six years that has proven successful in helping adolescent struggling readers not...
Gun ownership emerges as a divide, can shape political behavior, study finds
LAWRENCE — Increasingly in presidential elections since 1972, a partisan divide has emerged around guns, as someone who owns one is more likely to support a Republican candidate, according to a new study by University of Kansas researchers. ...
KU's Phi Beta Kappa Chapter inducts 125 new members
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society has initiated 125 new members. ...
Georgia mother accused of killing children fits pattern of coverage focusing on crime, not circumstances, professor says
LAWRENCE — A Georgia woman was arrested last week, charged with stabbing four of her five children and her husband to death. In addition to the horrific crime, media coverage has focused largely on the behavior of Isabel Martinez, who smiled for courtroom cameras and gave thumbs-up gestures as well...
Trump-Putin meeting carries risks, foreign policy scholar says
LAWRENCE — President Donald Trump prepares for his in-person, bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at an interesting and controversial time in the two countries' relationship. ...
Defunding women's health clinics exacerbated Hispanic disparity in preventive care, study finds
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School of Architecture, Design & Planning's name changes
LAWRENCE — Starting July 1, the School of Architecture, Design & Planning’s name became the School of Architecture & Design. ...
Campus experience leads to distinctive role for associate dean
LAWRENCE — Robert Goldstein, a distinguished professor and associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Kansas, will take on a new role as special adviser for campus development, the Office of the Provost announced today. ...
Report: Immigrants on Temporary Protected Status more civically engaged
LAWRENCE — U.S. immigrants from El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras on Temporary Protected Status, despite its in-between and temporary nature, generally do better than undocumented immigrants in educational attainment and civic engagement in their communities, according to a new report led by the University of Kansas Center for Migration Research. ...