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KU announces September employees of the month
The University of Kansas has announced the September 2015 employees of the month. They are as follows:...
Hodges Persley to present Shutz lecture Nov. 9
of Theatre Nicole Hodges Persley, this year’s winner of the Byron T. Shutz Award for Excellence in Teaching, will present “The Message: Improvising Hip Hop as Critical Pedagogy in the 21st Century Classroom” at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in The Commons of Spooner Hall. The lecture will offer insight...
Author of controversial 'Putin's Kleptocracy' to speak Nov. 5
Karen Dawisha, author of the acclaimed New York Times best-seller “Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?,” will deliver a public lecture at the University of Kansas. The lecture, titled “What’s the Problem With Russia? Or Is There a Problem?” will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in the Big...
KU to honor 48 seniors from Chautauqua, Cowley county high schools
Students from seven Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, Nov. 11, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
KU to honor 175 seniors from Wyandotte County high schools
Students from nine Kansas high schools will be honored Tuesday, Nov. 10, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
Debate about rest rooms, locker rooms can be sticking point on transgender policy, researcher says
Federal education officials have ruled an Illinois school district violated anti-discrimination laws by not allowing a transgender student who identifies as female to use the girls' locker room without restrictions. ...
Shogren appointed co-director for KU disabilities center
Karrie Shogren has been appointed the co-director of the Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities. Shogren, associate professor of special education, also serves as the co-director of the Beach Center on Disability. Both centers are affiliated with the Life Span Institute at the University of Kansas. ...
Men & Masculinities Symposium set for Nov. 15
The Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity and the Men & Masculinities Workgroup will host the third annual Men & Masculinities Symposium from noon to 5 p.m. Nov. 15 in the Kansas Memorial Union. The symposium is open to all University of Kansas students, faculty and staff. ...
KU lands grant to help young adults with disabilities and their families attend college
Researchers and educators at the University of Kansas have secured a grant that will help more young people with disabilities attend the university while supporting them and their families in preparing for adulthood and competitive careers. ...
Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center announces October graduates
Forty-four new law enforcement officers were congratulated by Eric K. Jackson, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Kansas City Field Office, during their graduation from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC) on Oct. 23. ...
New giant raptor discovered by KU researchers in South Dakota
A research team led by a University of Kansas alumnus has identified a new giant raptor, the largest specimen ever found with wing feathers. ...
Engineering to host High School Design Competition on Nov. 3
The University of Kansas School of Engineering will host its annual High School Design competition starting at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3, at the engineering complex, including the new Learned Engineering Expansion Phase 2 (LEEP2) building. Opening ceremonies will take place at the Horejsi Family Athletics Center. ...
KU selects vice provost for undergraduate studies
The University of Kansas will have a new vice provost for undergraduate studies in January. DeAngela Burns-Wallace, currently the assistant vice provost for undergraduate studies at the University of Missouri, will join KU near the start of the spring semester. ...
2015 ExCEL Award winners announced at Homecoming game
Two University of Kansas seniors received the 25th annual Excellence in Community, Education and Leadership Awards during halftime of the KU-Oklahoma Homecoming football game Oct. 31 in Memorial Stadium. ...
KU Endowment elects 4 new trustees
At today’s annual meeting of the KU Endowment Board of Trustees, four new trustees were elected: Angela Chammas of Hawthorn Woods, Illinois; Marvin Motley of Leawood; Diane Yetter of Chicago, and Carl Krehbiel, of Moundridge. ...
KU announces August employees of the month
The University of Kansas has announced its August 2015 employees of the month. They are as follows:...
Prestigious NIH award fuels research on human clearance of drugs, foreign chemicals
Emily Scott, professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Kansas, has been recognized with a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences. It’s a rare and important recognition — researchers can receive them only once in a career. ...
WWI series will explore important role of nurses on Eastern Front
A University of Kansas lecture series focused on the lesser-known stories of World War I’s Eastern Front puts nurses in the spotlight for its second public talk. ...
Final candidate for KU Libraries dean to present Monday
The final of four candidates for the dean of KU Libraries position at the University of Kansas will make a public presentation during an upcoming campus visit. ...
From Slavic folklore to Sookie Stackhouse, new course will study vampire depiction in the East and West
A University of Kansas professor hopes the allure of vampires will tempt students to learn more about the region of the world from which Dracula hails. ...
Professors seek to reduce incarceration rates for mentally ill prisoners
University of Kansas researchers are part of a grant that will work to reduce the number of individuals with serious mental illnesses who are incarcerated who could be better served in other settings. The project will have a special focus on reducing the number of women and veterans in jail. ...
There's a need for financial inclusion in United States, social welfare professor says
The Center for Financial Inclusion has designated Monday, Nov. 2, through Friday, Nov. 6, as Financial Inclusion Week in an effort to raise awareness worldwide of the importance and value of extending access to financial services to everyone. Known as FI2020, the effort is coordinating events around the world to...
University announces summer 2015 graduates
The names of more than 930 graduates from the University of Kansas this summer — representing 53 Kansas counties, 44 other states and 24 other countries — have been announced by the University Registrar. ...
KU Endowment provides $184.6 million to KU
KU Endowment provided $184.6 million in direct financial support for the University of Kansas and The University of Kansas Hospital in fiscal year 2015, which ended June 30. This represents a 48 percent increase over last year’s amount of $124.1 million. ...
Professor Philip Gura to give annual literary lecture
A renowned scholar in early American literature will present “‘I’ or ‘We’: Placing the Self in Antebellum U.S. Literature and Culture” for the 2015 Richard W. Gunn Memorial Lecture at the University of Kansas. ...
Lack of elderly care, 'little emperor syndrome,' behind China abandoning one-child policy, researcher says
Chinese state media announced this week all couples would be allowed to have two children, signaling an official abandonment of the country's controversial 35-year-old, one-child policy. ...
University mourns death of student Dylan Wappelhorst
The University of Kansas community is mourning the death of Dylan Wappelhorst, a freshman from Colwich. ...
Poetry examines how cities, individuals experience crisis
For poet Megan Kaminski, a University of Kansas assistant professor of English, it's important to understand how economic and environmental conditions have created everyday lives of permanent emergency. ...
Joe and Susan Morris of Leawood to receive Homecoming Spirit of 1912 Award
The University of Kansas Alumni Association and the student-led Homecoming Steering Committee have named Joe and Susan Morris of Leawood as the winners of this year’s Rich and Judy Billings Spirit of 1912 Award. The annual award recognizes special contributions to Homecoming and other KU traditions. ...
Rewriting of Latin poet Catullus now available in Italian
A University of Kansas scholar is introducing Italian readers to Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson’s reimagining of poems by Latin poet Catullus. ...