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University community remembers School of Engineering professor Sam Shanmugan
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas community is mourning the death of Kumarasamy “Sam” Shanmugan, a distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. ...
Advisory: Media can tour new Cora Downs Residence Hall on Aug. 11
LAWRENCE — Area media are invited to a tour of the new Cora Downs Residence Hall on the University of Kansas Lawrence campus at 9 a.m. Friday, Aug. 11. Downs Hall is part of KU's Central District project. ...
Documentary exploring evidence of extraterrestrial life in ancient Peru is based on pseudoscience, unfair to indigenous peoples, anthropologists say
LAWRENCE — Two University of Kansas researchers who study ancient American indigenous cultures and human DNA are available to discuss a controversial popular online documentary that purports to depict the investigation of a pre-Columbian "humanoid" mummy in Peru. ...
Scholars shed light on ‘moving target’ of drone regulation in the U.S.
LAWRENCE — For some, they’re a hobby. For other people, they’re tools. And for many, they’re just a big nuisance. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, drones — or, unmanned aerial systems — are increasingly a part of life for millions in the U.S. In fact, the Federal Aviation Administration estimates...
Influence of pro-firearms group in state legislatures depends on citizens' demand for guns, study finds
LAWRENCE — Before and after his election in 2008, Barack Obama attempted to assuage fears from gun owners that he was planning a massive rollback of gun rights. However, his election spurred a nationwide surge in gun sales, and many state legislatures subsequently passed laws deregulating firearms. ...
Qatar trade complaint against other nations raises 'unprecedented issues' in trade, national security, professor says
LAWRENCE — Qatar filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization on Monday to challenge a trade boycott against the nation led by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and United Arab Emirates. The move is the first step in a trade dispute among the four nations and sets in place a 60-day...
Research shows mass communications studies rely heavily on nonrepresentative samples
LAWRENCE — For decades, academic studies have sought to understand the effects of mass media on people from all walks of life. However, based on the sampling procedures used in a majority of those studies, people should be careful in interpreting the findings and assuming they apply to all Americans,...
Stabilizing water levels in aquifer possible, survey shows
LAWRENCE — For at least the next one to two decades, irrigators in western Kansas may not have to cut groundwater use nearly as drastically as once thought to stem declines in the High Plains aquifer, according to water experts at the Kansas Geological Survey based at the University of...
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...
73 undergraduates to present summer research
LAWRENCE — Each summer, undergraduates from around the world join current University of Kansas students in conducting research with KU faculty. Seventy-three of these students will present their research Friday, July 28, at the KU Summer Undergraduate Research Poster Session at The Commons. ...
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. ...
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...
Astronomers discuss do’s and don’ts for viewing Aug. 21 ‘Great American Eclipse’
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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? ...
Psychologists say our ‘attachment style’ applies to social networks like Facebook
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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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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. ...