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Chancellor to host university updates
Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little will host two events to update the University of Kansas community about KU’s accomplishments and opportunities over the past year and take questions from students, faculty and staff. ...
KU Natural History Museum receives top rating among public universities
The University of Kansas Natural History Museum has been named the top natural history museum among public universities by Best College Reviews. In "The 30 Most Amazing Higher Ed Natural History Museums," the museum ranked fourth overall behind private university museums at Harvard, Drexel and Yale. ...
Media advisory: Professor can discuss military family leave policy changes
Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced last week that he would institute a 12-week maternity leave in all branches and increase paid paternity leave to 14 days from 10. The personnel initiatives are aimed at making military careers more attractive to millennials, according to national news reports. ...
Gifts support student access at the Lied Center
Two gifts for the Lied Center of Kansas will support the center’s Performing Arts Access Expansion program, which aims to increase access to arts programs for Lawrence school district middle- and high-school students. ...
University community mourns death of Christopher Sowa
A celebration of life for Christopher M. Sowa, interim associate director for residence life with KU Student Housing, will be from 4-5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, in the KU Memorial Union ballroom. Sowa, 37, died unexpectedly Jan. 29. A private family service is planned this week in Illinois. ...
Future City winners announced; KU Engineering awards more than $18k in scholarships
Two middle schools from Lawrence claimed the top two spots at the Great Plains Future City Competition, hosted Jan. 23 at the University of Kansas School of Engineering. More than 400 middle school students from across the Midwest gathered to present futuristic cities along with their innovative waste management systems. ...
Given potential safety benefits, driverless-car policy study is important, professor says
When the Obama administration recently proposed spending $4 billion on a transition to driverless vehicles on U.S. roadways, it led to discussion online and in the news of a futuristic society. ...
New research sharpens understanding of poison-arrow hunting in Africa
While academic awareness of African peoples’ hunting with poison-tipped arrows extends back for centuries, knowledge of the ingenious practice has been scattered among chemistry, entomology and anthropology texts. ...
New book on flamenco debunks myths, fills in historical gaps
For generations, flamenco has captured the world’s imagination, but rarely the attention of American scholars. ...
Media advisory: Political experts can discuss Iowa caucuses final push
University of Kansas experts are available to comment on the final push and analyze results from Monday's Iowa caucuses in the presidential primary race. ...
Student wins international Roland Piano design competition
Rebekah Winegarner, an industrial design student from Overland Park, is among seven winners of the Roland Corporation’s Digital Piano Design Awards. Roland is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments. ...
Historical study can help bridge gap among schools, indigenous students, resesarcher says
As migrants from more than 60 indigenous groups in Mexico have increasingly come to the United States in recent years, psychologists, anthropologists and sociologists have sought how to understand their cultures as they continue to enter American classrooms. ...
KU announces the December employees of the month
in long days during orientations. She could be found working in the hospitality room, the advising help room, working with students and their guests to resolve concerns, on the phone with professionals across campus solving problems, and introducing students to potential advisers and instructors. Chandler handled the unexpected creatively and...
KU to honor 52 high school seniors from Linn, Miami counties
Students from six Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, Feb. 10, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
Students design prototype products for Alabama nonprofit
Over winter break 14 students from the Departments of Design and Architecture traveled to Greensboro, Alabama. There, they spent 12 to 16 hours each day for two weeks designing, building, testing, breaking, rebuilding, sometimes cursing, but never giving up in their quest to develop two new products of made of...
KU to honor 61 high school seniors from five Central Kansas counties
Students from 12 Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, Feb. 10, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
KU to honor 32 high school seniors from Allen, Bourbon, Woodson counties
Students from six Kansas high schools will be honored Monday, Feb. 8, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
KU to train next-generation cybersecurity experts for government service
A new $4.7 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation will enable the University of Kansas School of Engineering to educate cyberdefense experts dedicated to public service, making America stronger in an era of rising cyberattacks. ...
KU announces Emerging Leaders Academy graduates for fall 2015 session
The University of Kansas Public Management Center has announced the fall 2015 Emerging Leaders Academy (ELA) graduates. The graduation ceremony will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29, in the Griffith Room at the Oread Hotel. ...
Media advisory: Professor can discuss coverage, government communications around Zika, virus ravaging Brazil
Zika, a mosquito-borne virus that may cause birth defects including underdeveloped brains in newborns, has been ravaging Brazil and the nation’s government is scrambling to fight the illness in advance of the upcoming Summer Olympics. Brazil’s government has announced troops will be deployed to hand out information on how to...
KU, KUMC students will present at Capitol Graduate Research Summit
The value and benefits of research performed at the University of Kansas and KU Medical Center will be highlighted at the the Capitol Graduate Research Summit. ...
Second annual event to explore intersection of business, race, sports
The University of Kansas School of Business and Langston Hughes Center, in partnership with Kansas Athletics, will present “The Power of Sport: A Conversation on Business, Race and Sports.”...
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies offers Tinker Field Research Grants
This spring, the University of Kansas Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies will award Tinker Field Research Grants to graduate students for research in Latin America during 2016. The funds come from the Tinker Foundation. ...
Center produces Spanish version of disability language guidelines
The University of Kansas Research and Training Center on Independent Living (RTC/IL) has produced a Spanish language version of its internationally known Guidelines: How to Write and Report About People with Disabilities. ...
Spencer Museum of Art awarded $487K for interdisciplinary arts research
The Spencer Museum of Art has announced a $487,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch the Spencer’s Integrated Arts Research Initiative (IARI). This award supports interdisciplinary research efforts among the art museum and partners at the University of Kansas and beyond. ...
Lessons for local governments in Flint water crisis, professor says
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has shed light on issues that many local governments are facing today or likely could in the future, according to a University of Kansas researcher who studies public management. ...
KU startup earns $300K SBIR contract to develop cancer-fighting drug technology
A University of Kansas startup company has received a federal contract to continue its work on new drug delivery methods for developing more effective cancer treatments. ...
Candidate presentations set for director of Student Veteran Center
Four candidates will make public presentations in the coming weeks as the University of Kansas launches a search for a director of its new Student Veteran Center, set to open in January 2017. ...
New Foundation Professor among world's top influencers in education fields
A recognized authority in several areas of education will soon bring his expertise to the University of Kansas as its newest Foundation Distinguished Professor. ...
Educators need to prepare future teachers to be 'shape shifters,' professor says
The term “shape shifter” may sound like the realm of science fiction, but millennials training to be the next generation of teachers may need to be just that. A University of Kansas professor has published a study examining how “New Times,” or the era we live in, requires new educators...