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KU launches Experts at KU faculty expertise portal
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has launched Experts at KU, an online faculty expertise search portal that will help internal and external users find research collaborators on the Lawrence and KU Medical Center campuses. ...
Hall Center announces resident Fellows
LAWRENCE – The Hall Center has announced its fellows in residence for the 2017-2018 academic year. Jonathan Lamb, Antje Ziethen, Catherine Batza, Ari Linden and Crispin Williams were selected as Research Fellows, and Patricia Manning was awarded the Hall Center’s Mid-Career Research Fellowship. Doctoral candidates Alyse Bensel and Rachel Schwaller...
History student wins Laird Essay Contest
LAWRENCE — The Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREES) has announced that this year’s Roy D. and Betty Laird Essay Contest winner is history doctoral candidate Alana Holland, for her essay titled “Not Our Nation: Public Holocaust Commemoration in Poland.”...
Researchers develop course for online blended learning
LAWRENCE —Across the country, classrooms are making the transition to blended learning models. Typically, students work together, with devices, with a teacher and seek information from a number of educational resources. Recently, researchers at the University of Kansas developed an online course to help teachers create blended learning environments by...
Study: Better memory makes people tire of experiences more quickly
LAWRENCE — We're fickle creatures. At least if we can remember to be, according to a new study led by a University of Kansas researcher of marketing and consumer behavior. ...
KU laboratory instrumental in understanding Mennonite genetics
LAWRENCE — For most of its 40-year history, the Laboratory of Biological Anthropology at the University of Kansas has worked with Mennonite communities in the Midwest to better understand their evolutionary history dating back to the Protestant Reformation. ...
Final candidate for dean of Business to present Tuesday
LAWRENCE — Greg Mosier, dean of the College of Business at the University of Nevada, Reno, will make a public presentation Tuesday, May 2, as a candidate for dean for the University of Kansas School of Business. ...
KU to host Teaching in a New Era conference
LAWRENCE — The School of Education at the University of Kansas will host the 10th annual summer Strategies Conference for the region’s PK-12 educators on June 2. ...
Engineering professor honored with teaching award
LAWRENCE — Prasad Kulkarni, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Kansas School of Engineering, has been named the first recipient of the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Professorship. ...
University announces February Employees of the Month
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has announced the February 2017 Employees of the Month:...
Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center announces new graduates
YODER – Fifty-nine new law enforcement officers were congratulated by Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt during their graduation from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center on April 21. ...
Trump demands for NAFTA renegotiation risk triggering more protectionist moves worldwide, professor says
LAWRENCE — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that instead of terminating NAFTA as he had previously threatened, the agreement could stay and that a renegotiation process would begin immediately. The landmark free-trade agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico was a major point in the presidential campaign, with Trump...
Reducing federal corporate income-rate would likely have largely beneficial effects, economist says
LAWRENCE — President Donald Trump's proposal to cut the corporate income tax rate to 15 percent as part of his tax policy plan has gained considerable media attention this week. ...
Religious studies lecture will examine early relationships among church, state and universities
LAWRENCE – An expert on the history of religious studies will examine the origin of secularity with its ideas of scientific rationality, free individual inquiry, democracy and rule of law. ...
KU announces 2017 Beckman Scholars
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Beckman Scholars Program has announced its award recipients for 2017: Mattea Keister, sophomore from Arveda, Colorado, majoring in biochemistry, and Zachary Wood, sophomore from Eureka, Missouri, majoring in chemistry. These students will take part in a 15-month program designed to enrich their development as...
Fund supports participation in summer 2017 youth activities at KU
LAWRENCE – A gift from David and Margaret Shirk will benefit families and children in the Lawrence and Greater Kansas City areas who participate in specific youth activities offered through the Department of Health, Sport & Exercise Sciences at the University of Kansas. ...
Researchers work to improve services for families experiencing domestic violence
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas researchers are part of a five-year, multisite demonstration project grant to evaluate and improve services for child-welfare-involved families experiencing domestic violence. The KU researchers will examine the effectiveness of various methods designed to increase the safety and well-being of children, parents and families, and ensure...
Jayhawk Motorsports team will unveil competition cars April 29
LAWRENCE — When Kim Hoedel was a young girl living overseas, one of her favorite things to do was watch Formula One car racing. ...
Geoarchaeologist can comment on 130,000-year-old site in Southern California
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas researcher is available to comment on findings published today in the prestigious journal Nature that purport to establish the oldest well-documented archaeological site in North America at 130,000 years old. ...
Study suggests strategies for helping poor people in Johnson County
LAWRENCE — Johnson County has the largest population and the highest median income in Kansas. The average income is 50 percent greater than the U.S. as a whole. The population is 81 percent white. ...
Office of International Programs announces new leader and focus
LAWRENCE — The Office of International Programs has a new leader and an enhanced focus. ...
Women's Recognition Banquet to honor outstanding students, staff
LAWRENCE — The Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity will host the Women’s Recognition Banquet at 6:30 p.m. today, April 25, at the Kansas Union Ballroom. KU will recognize outstanding faculty, staff and students at this annual event in addition to previously announced Kansas Women’s Hall of Fame...
Biospecimen Blood Drive to benefit KU Cancer Center research
FAIRWAY— Kansas City area residents can help advance cancer research by participating in the fourth annual Biospecimen Blood Drive from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. May 5 at the University of Kansas Clinical Research Center, 4350 Shawnee Mission Parkway. ...
Second candidate for dean of business to present Friday
LAWRENCE — L. Paige Fields, dean of the School of Business at Trinity University, will make a public presentation Friday, April 28, as a candidate for dean for the University of Kansas School of Business. ...
Marvin Grove announced as spring replant site
LAWRENCE — This spring, Replant Mount Oread will return to its roots with a planting in historic Marvin Grove. On Friday, April 28, volunteers will plant three American Linden, four Kentucky Coffee and four red oak trees in an area of the grove just west of the Spencer Museum of...
Study shows brands dedicated to positive social change use social media to primarily promote products
LAWRENCE — Social media has greatly changed how all sorts of companies can interact with their audiences and customers. A new study suggests that even brands dedicated to positive social change tend to use social media as a way to promote the brand more so than activism or social causes. ...