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Fall Engineering and Computing Career Fair set for Sept. 21
More than 125 companies and agencies will attend the Fall Engineering and Computing Career Fair, set for noon to 5 p.m. Sept. 21 at the Kansas Union. Students should review the complete list of employers and study those of interest prior to arrival. ...
Six KU faculty members receive distinguished teaching awards
Six University of Kansas faculty members received distinguished teaching awards Aug. 18 at the KU Teaching Summit. ...
Gifts establish medical oncology professorship at KU Medical Center
A $1.3 million challenge grant from the Hall Family Foundation sparked a gift commitment of $650,000 from the Sunderland Family Fund,and together the gifts will establish the A. Drue Jennings Professorship in Medical Oncology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. ...
Kansas Public Radio named Station of the Year for 2016
Kansas Public Radio at the University of Kansas has been named the 2016 Station of the Year by the Kansas Association of Broadcasters (KAB). The KAB first presented the award in 1996, and KPR has earned the top award 16 of the past 21 years, more than any other Kansas...
Study highlights crucial ethnic majority-minority divide in Kyrgyzstan
In a part of the world that often makes headlines because of religious strife, ethnic divides are no less — and perhaps even more — consequential for political stability and socioeconomic well-being. ...
Does owning a well foster environmental citizenship? New study provides evidence
Kansans who own water wells show more awareness of state water policy issues than those who rely on municipal water supplies, according to a study that could have implications for groundwater management and environmental policies. ...
Research-based online tool empowers Peace Corps work in Africa
The University of Kansas is partnering with the Peace Corps to provide custom, web-based resources to staff and volunteers in Africa who are working to boost health and development. ...
University announces June Employees of the Month
Thomas DrogeTitle: IT technician, Information Technology...
Study: Focus on certain aspects of English improves reading for students who are deaf or hard of hearing
For many years, students who are deaf or hard of hearing have struggled to learn to read English at the same proficiency rates as their hearing peers. A University of Kansas professor has co-authored a study that found that doesn't have to be the case. ...
Accounting professor earns journal best paper award
The American Accounting Association has honored University of Kansas Professor Scott Bronson and his co-authors as recipients of the 2016 Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award. ...
KU license agreement makes it easier for faculty to form new companies
A new type of licensing agreement now available to faculty members at the University of Kansas is making it easier for them to take lab discoveries and spin them out into new startup companies. ...
Seventy-two undergraduates present summer research
Each summer, undergraduate students from around the world join current University of Kansas students in conducting research with campus faculty. Seventy-two of these students presented their research last month at the KU Summer Undergraduate Research Poster Session at The Commons. ...
KU community mourns death of Professor Emeritus Robert Brown
Robert Brown, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Kansas and longtime Lawrence resident, died July 23. He was 82. ...
Plan ahead for residence hall move-in traffic Aug. 18
The University of Kansas employees and the Lawrence community should anticipate heavy traffic around 15th and Iowa streets Thursday, Aug. 18, for the primary move-in day for student housing residents. ...
3 Willie Cole prints selected to accompany ‘Between the World and Me’ as 2016 KU Common Work of Art
In conjunction with the University of Kansas selection of “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates as the 2016–2017 Common Book, the Spencer Museum of Art has selected three prints by artist Willie Cole as the accompanying Common Work of Art. Framed as an intimate letter to Coates’ adolescent...
Hitting the road: KU Engineering SELF Fellows traveling to Lone Star State
The booming business environment of Central and South Texas will serve as a real-world classroom for 20 members of the senior class of the Self Engineering Leadership Fellows at the University of Kansas School of Engineering. ...
KU announces new Institutional Opportunity and Access director
Following a national search, Michael “Shane” McCreery has been selected to lead the office of Institutional Opportunity and Access at the University of Kansas. McCreery will oversee a staff that provides support to more than 30,000 faculty, staff and students on the KU Lawrence and Edwards campuses. ...
Scholar shows we understand social media does not equal social interaction
If you worry that people today are using social media as a crutch for a real social life, a University of Kansas study will set you at ease. ...
Department of Defense renews KU designation
In right balance, environmental regulations increased firms' profits, new study finds
CEOs and corporate lobbyists often spend plenty of time decrying how potential government regulations will affect their bottom line, but a new University of Kansas study finds that the U.S. Clean Water Act, when implemented in the right balance, improves firms' profitability. ...
KU part of initiative to harness data analytics to improve teaching, student learning
The University of Kansas is part of a coalition of five universities in the United States and Canada that will harness their strengths in research to improve teaching and student learning. ...
Spencer Museum receives NEH grant to lead educator workshops on race
The Spencer Museum of Art has been awarded a $159,049 federal grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to organize two weeklong workshops for K-12 teachers. These events will be supported by the NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture program, which awards up to $160,000 to support projects...
New map details threat of Zika across Europe, U.S.
With Zika sparking anxiety at the Summer Olympic Games in Brazil, and now being transmitted in Florida through contact with mosquitoes, accurately mapping the distribution of the virus is increasingly urgent. ...
New book documents 'Journalism's Lost Generation'
For more than a decade, newspapers across the country have scaled back their staff, laid off journalists and editors, and made drastic changes in the face of economic challenges. A University of Kansas researcher has gathered insight from thousands of journalists affected directly by those changes in a book examining...
Phi Beta Kappa chapter inducts 72 new members
The University of Kansas Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society has initiated 72 new members. ...
Visual art student wins international film festival award
A film created by University of Kansas visual art student Olivia Hernández was the overall winner of the Short Film Work-in-Progress category from the CreActive International Open Film Festival in Bangladesh. ...
Sci-fi writer receives lifetime teaching award
James Gunn, University of Kansas professor emeritus and award-winning science fiction author, recently received a lifetime teaching award from the Writing the Rockies writers conference of Western Colorado State University. ...
Gift turns professorship into chair of ophthalmology at KU
University of Kansas alumnus Luther Fry and his wife, Ardis, of Garden City, have made a combined outright and planned gift commitment of $1 million, which will support an endowed chair in ophthalmology at KU. ...
Chancellor presents Rep. Kevin Yoder with national science advocacy award for support of research
KANSAS — The University of Kansas presented a Champion of Science Award to U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder on Monday in recognition of his support for federal funding for basic scientific research. ...
Media advisory: Experts available to comment on back-to-school news from numerous educational aspects
With the arrival of August comes the end of summer and the beginning of a new school year. Students across the country will return to classrooms this month and next while others begin new phases in their educational careers, be it the first day of high school or the start...