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Supreme Court hearing transgender rights case could be milestone, policy scholar says
LAWRENCE — The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear a case next year regarding transgender students' right to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity will likely be a milestone for the transgender movement, according to a University of Kansas expert who studies transgender politics and policy. ...
KU Endowment celebrating 125th anniversary
LAWRENCE — The fundraising foundation for the University of Kansas, KU Endowment, is celebrating a banner anniversary: 125 years since its inception as the first foundation for a public university in the country. ...
Programs to explore 'Portraits of Latinx Identity'
LAWRENCE — Even though Latina/os are now the largest “minority” group in Kansas and in the United States, they often struggle to make their voices and identities known. ...
Symposium will explore solutions on college affordability
LAWRENCE — Rising student loan burdens, escalating wealth inequality and a pervasive sense that the American Dream of financial security and economic mobility are slipping beyond the grasp of many Americans have led to questions whether higher education is still "worth it" in today’s economy. An upcoming symposium at the...
RedTire program earns 2016 UEDA Award of Excellence
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas School of Business program has received a 2016 Award of Excellence from the University Economic Development Association (UEDA). ...
The Agency launches a new creative arm and a KU steam whistle ringtone
LAWRENCE — The Agency, the student-run advertising and branding student organization at the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications, launched an entity last week called Steam Whistle Creative. ...
University Honors Program receives top rating
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Honors Program is one of 11 universities nationwide to receive a “Five Mortarboard” rating in Inside Honors: Ratings and Reviews of Sixty Public University Honors Programs. The program has been top rated in each of the past three editions of the publication (2012, 2014,...
Brown to receive Woodyard International Educator Award
LAWRENCE — Professor Christopher Brown is the 2016 recipient of the George and Eleanor Woodyard International Educator Award, which recognizes faculty on the Lawrence campus who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in strengthening the University of Kansas’ international programming. ...
Professor will chair organization supporting women in science, engineering
LAWRENCE — The Member and Geographic Activities Assembly of the Institute of Engineering and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical professional organization with over 429,000 members in 160 countries, recently selected Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, professor of mathematics, courtesy professor of the departments of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Aerospace...
Chancellor Gray-Little to host KU Elevate event in Wichita
WICHITA — The University of Kansas will showcase four of its most innovative researchers – with some help from one of its most fascinating aerospace engineering alumni – at an event in Wichita this week. ...
Distinguished professor to explore families, societies left behind by migrants
LAWRENCE — Victor Agadjanian, Foundation Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas, will deliver his Distinguished Professor Inaugural Lecture, “Those Whom Migrants Leave Behind: Why Should We Care?” at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 10 in the Bruckmiller Room of the Adams Alumni Center. ...
KU concludes 104th Homecoming celebration
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas celebrated its 104th Homecoming Oct. 16-22. The annual event was organized by the KU Alumni Association and a student-led Homecoming steering committee, which was directed by Katie Gerard, a Hanover senior in supply chain management. She worked with Alumni Association adviser Jacey Krehbiel, assistant...
New book examines America’s greatest ghost-story writer
LAWRENCE — In a season of scary-clown mania – as in every other season for the past four decades – Stephen King gets all the attention as America’s greatest writer of horror-fantasy. ...
KU nominates 5 students for Rhodes, Marshall scholarships
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has endorsed applications for five students for prestigious fellowships for study in the United Kingdom. ...
Survey gauges teachers' beliefs on intelligence, ability, effort; how they can influence learning
World Series puts team's controversial name, mascot in spotlight
LAWRENCE — Game one of the 2016 World Series is scheduled for tonight, and to say it’s a historic series is an understatement. Both the Cleveland and Chicago teams are looking to end championship droughts of 60-plus and 100-plus years, respectively. Aside from the baseball and history aspects, there is...
With election winding down, KU experts can discuss candidates, issues
LAWRENCE —As one of the most unexpected presidential campaign matchups in decades comes to a close, University of Kansas political experts are available to discuss issues surrounding the Nov. 8 election. ...
Alumni will fund center to prepare students for careers in transactional law
LAWRENCE – The Polsinelli law firm and its University of Kansas alumni attorneys have committed $250,000 to create the Polsinelli Transactional Law Center at the KU School of Law. ...
Researchers win NSF grant to study frontline workers to human trafficking
"Human trafficking is so complicated that survivors' identities might be read in different ways by different people," said Corinne Schwarz, a KU doctoral candidate in women, gender and sexuality studies and a co-principal investigator for the project. "Someone might be a survivor of sex or labor trafficking, but if they...
Author to speak of her travels in the footsteps of the enslaved
LAWRENCE — Acclaimed author, broadcaster and journalist Aminatta Forna will make a special presentation that traces her own links to the cultural heritage of Sierra Leone through the enslaved in the Americas. The talk, “From Root to Branch: Travels in the Footsteps of the Enslaved,” will be at 7...
Panelists will discuss mixed messages of 'I'm Just Honoring Your Culture'
LAWRENCE — With Pocahontas and Indian warriors perennially popular as Halloween costumes and the Cleveland Indians playing in the World Series, appropriation of Native cultures is a timely topic. An upcoming panel at the University of Kansas will address some of those issues. ...
KU lecturer proposes feminist legal reforms to reduce sexual violence against Native American women
Social welfare professor publishes new book, wins one of field’s highest honors
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas professor of social welfare and pioneer in the field has published a new edition of her widely used textbook for social workers and received one of the highest honors the profession offers. Rosemary Chapin, professor of social work at KU, has authored the fourth...
Kansas association honors pharmacist for work to fight prescription-drug addiction
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas Professor Morris Faiman has earned the Cardinal Health Generation Rx Champions Award from the Kansas Pharmacists Association (KPhA) for his efforts to curb community-based prescription drug abuse. ...
2016 Ex.C.E.L. Award winners announced at Homecoming game
LAWRENCE — Two University of Kansas seniors received the 26th annual Excellence in Community, Education and Leadership Awards during halftime of the KU-Oklahoma State Homecoming football game Oct. 22 in Memorial Stadium. ...
Nontraditional conference will explore activist media in the Americas
LAWRENCE — Supported by an Interdisciplinary Starter Grant from The Commons, the University of Kansas will host “Trans/forming Activist Media in the Americas” next week. ...
Student wins national sportswriting award for work on 'mother of KU Athletics'
LAWRENCE — Scott Chasen, a senior from Olathe, will travel next week to Los Angeles to accept the prestigious 2016 Jim Murray Memorial Foundation scholarship, a national award for excellence in sports writing at the college level. ...