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52 students receive Undergraduate Research Awards for spring
LAWRENCE — This spring, 52 KU students will receive Undergraduate Research Awards (UGRAs). UGRA recipients are awarded a $1,000 scholarship as they work on mentored research and creative projects. ...
Fourth annual conversation on business, race and sports to feature sports writer Claire Smith
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas School of Business, the Langston Hughes Center and Kansas Athletics will present “The Power of Sport: A Conversation on Business, Race and Sports” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 1, in the Kansas Union Ballroom. ...
Pharmacy students travel across the state
LAWRENCE — Seventeen KU School of Pharmacy students will take a three-day trip across Kansas to visit 14 independent community pharmacies and their owners Jan 10-12. ...
Professor outlines environmental degradation to Mediterranean
LAWRENCE — Climate change is posing problems around the world to the way people live and feed themselves. In the Mediterranean Basin, a vital region to dozens of nations, it is exacerbating the existing problems of environmental degradation, agricultural land misuse, pollution, population increases and declining species. A University of...
Kosovar ambassador headlines Dole Institute’s spring offerings
LAWRENCE – The Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas has announced its full lineup of programs for the spring 2018 semester. ...
Statement from Dole Institute director Bill Lacy on Senator Bob Dole’s Congressional Gold Medal
"I cannot imagine someone more deserving of a Congressional Gold Medal than Senator Bob Dole. As a public servant, veteran and statesman, his career has improved the lives of millions of Americans. As a proud Kansan, he has never forgotten his home state. We are so pleased to see him...
Trump reaches new low, communication expert says
LAWRENCE — With controversy over his “shithole” remark still roiling days later and the one-year anniversary of his inauguration Saturday, an expert in presidential rhetoric says iconoclastic President Donald Trump has degraded the office he holds. ...
Artist, poet, scholar Eve Ewing to give poetry lecture
LAWRENCE — Creative scholar Eve Ewing will deliver the Kenneth A. Spencer Lecture for The Commons at 7 p.m. Jan. 31 at Liberty Hall. Her presentation will be a hybrid lecture and poetry reading, titled “Poetry in Context.”...
Breakthrough enables screening millions of human antibodies for new drug discovery
LAWRENCE — A paper just published in Nature Biotechnology outlines a pioneering method of screening a person’s diverse set of antibodies for rapid therapeutic discovery. Antibody proteins are an important part of the human immune system that specifically target foreign viruses and bacteria, and they have been the fastest-growing class...
Canada’s consul general in Denver to discuss NAFTA at KU
LAWRENCE — The consul general of Canada in Denver, Stéphane Lessard, will deliver a presentation about the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, in Capitol Federal Hall. ...
KU Phi Kappa Phi chapter initiates students
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Chapter 171 of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi initiated more than 140 students as new members during a ceremony at the end of the fall 2017 semester. ...
Scholar urges Trump to study Haiti’s history
LAWRENCE — On the eighth anniversary of an earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and destroyed much of Haiti’s infrastructure, the world is reacting to President Donald Trump’s description in a meeting with congressional leaders Jan. 11 of the island nation – and other majority-black countries – as “shitholes.”...
Waiving Iran sanctions keeps U.S. in strong, security-enhancing deal for now, International law expert says
LAWRENCE — The White House announced today that President Trump will waive nuclear-related sanctions against Iran. The move will keep the nuclear deal in place but add sanctions on Iranian businesses and leaders who have supported terrorist groups. The president also gave European allies 120 days to rework the deal...
NC gerrymandering case sets stage for Supreme Court showdown over state redistricting, legal expert says
LAWRENCE — A three-judge panel struck down North Carolina’s congressional map this week, a decision that state Republicans vowed to challenge and could have long-term effects on the redistricting practice known as gerrymandering, election experts say. ...
Biotech education growing rapidly at KU Edwards Campus
OVERLAND PARK – KU is expanding its role in filling Greater Kansas City’s need for biotechnology talent and local students’ interest in the field. The KU Edwards Campus (KUEC) in Overland Park launched the university’s undergraduate biotechnology program less than two years ago, is celebrating the opening of a new...
Series of events to celebrate legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas is coordinating several Lawrence area events to celebrate the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ...
Project helps marginalized Guatemalan women document health, environmental issues
The Photovoice project was conducted by University of Kansas researchers seeking to help marginalized indigenous communities in eastern Guatemala. ...
Machine learning predicts new details of geothermal heat flux beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet
Judge's blocking of DACA phaseout 'important but small victory' in ongoing immigration reform, law professor says
LAWRENCE — A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA. The program that protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation was scheduled to be phased out this year, and Congress is currently debating how to address or fix...
‘Active living trails’ give boost to public parks
LAWRENCE — For not much money, you can change the public's perception of a park in a neglected part of town, thereby stimulating healthful activity and perhaps even economic benefits to the surrounding neighborhood. ...
KU entrepreneurship leader to host webinar on how universities can evolve tech transfer practices
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas’ top entrepreneurship official will co-host a webinar on how universities can evolve their technology transfer activities and do more to address the demands of the innovation economy. ...
Scholarship shows musical theatre alive and kicking
LAWRENCE — The third edition of The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge University Press, 2017) features the cast of “Hamilton” on the cover, and that show’s smash-hit status informed the publisher’s demand for an update of the book. ...
KGS to measure groundwater levels in Western Kansas
LAWRENCE — A crew from the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas, will measure water levels in hundreds of western Kansas wells this week. Most have been measured annually for years, some since the 1960s, to monitor declines in the state’s most valuable groundwater resources. ...
Former assistant secretary of health to headline KU summit
LAWRENCE — Dr. Karen DeSalvo, who was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as assistant secretary for health in 2015, will be the keynote speaker at the Health for the 21st Century summit at the University of Kansas on Jan. 16. She will describe how public health is changing...
KPR, Kansas Humanities Council to collect oral histories of Vietnam veterans
LAWRENCE — Kansas Public Radio will be partnering with the Kansas Humanities Council and 11 other Kansas organizations on a statewide oral history project that will collect the personal stories of Vietnam veterans. Collected oral histories and memoirs will be submitted to the Library of Congress’ Veterans History Project in...
KU Coding Boot Camp graduates 1st cohort
OVERLAND PARK — The University of Kansas Edwards Campus celebrated its first cohort of graduates from the KU Coding Boot Camp, an education partnership between the Edwards Campus and Trilogy Education Services, on Dec. 9. The camp teaches students sought-after web development and coding skills on a variety of platforms,...