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Thu, 06/02/2016

KU community mourns death of student Daniel Weyand

LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas community is mourning the death of student Daniel Weyand, who died May 28. ...

Thu, 06/02/2016

KU Phi Kappa Phi Chapter selects Blackiston Fellowship honoree

LAWRENCE — A student who completed requirements for two undergraduate degrees in three years was selected to receive the James Blackiston Fellowship from the University of Kansas chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. ...

Wed, 06/01/2016

Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center announces May graduates

YODER – Sixty-two new law enforcement officers were congratulated by University of Kansas General Counsel Jim Pottorff during their graduation May 20 from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC). ...

Tue, 05/31/2016

KU announces April Employees of the Month

LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has announced the April Employees of the Month:...

Tue, 05/31/2016

Coach teams up with Audio-Reader for 7th annual Golf Classic

LAWRENCE — Erin O’Neil, the University of Kansas women’s golf head coach, will chair the Audio-Reader’s seventh-annual Golf Classic, which will take place Monday, June 6, at the Eagle Bend Golf Course. ...

Tue, 05/31/2016

Media advisory: Professor can discuss KC hearing to fight predatory payday lending

LAWRENCE — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is hosting a public hearing in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 2, the same day as the national day of action to end predatory lending. CFPB director Richard Cordray will speak at the hearing at the Kansas City Convention Center. ...

Tue, 05/31/2016

Kansas Enrichment Network partnering for 2-state municipal summit on afterschool, expanded learning

LAWRENCE – A statewide project of a University of Kansas-based research center is partnering with colleagues in Missouri to assemble city leaders and state agency officials from across both states for an early-June municipal summit focused on improving and expanding afterschool and summer learning opportunities for young people. ...

Fri, 05/27/2016

University community remembers undergraduate Nathaniel Naudet

LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas community is remembering Nathaniel Naudet, a chemical and petroleum engineering student. Naudet died May 17 near Flagstaff, Arizona. ...

Thu, 05/26/2016

Professor honored by Society for German-American Studies

LAWRENCE — The Society for German-American Studies has selected Professor William Keel of the University of Kansas Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures as the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award at the society's 40th annual symposium in San Antonio. ...

Thu, 05/26/2016

Sophisticated investors reap greater profits when trading stocks of firms with more connected boards, research shows

LAWRENCE — A golfer, a banker and a gambler linked in an insider trading case make for a great headline and provocative news. ...

Thu, 05/26/2016

Media advisory: Scholar on modern Japan can comment on Obama's visit to Hiroshima

LAWRENCE —Barack Obama on Friday will be the first U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, the Japanese city destroyed by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945 during World War II. ...

Thu, 05/26/2016

Professor develops framework to test how governments use religion in rhetoric

LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas researcher has developed a framework to analyze how governments can use religion in different ways to legitimize their own power. ...

Wed, 05/25/2016

Hawks, Helmets and Handlebars event to focus on bicycle safety, healthy habits

WESTWOOD—The University of Kansas Alumni Association and the KU Medical Center will provide free bicycle helmets to the first 150 children present at the eighth annual Hawks, Helmets and Handlebars event from 10 a.m. to noon June 4 at the KU Cancer Center’s Westwood Campus, 2330 Shawnee Mission Parkway. ...

Wed, 05/25/2016

Professor examines how diversity offices form, evolve on college campuses

LAWRENCE — College campuses across the country have shown in the past year how vital concerns about diversity and equity are in higher education. While many institutions have offices or administrators charged with overseeing diversity efforts, little attention has been paid to how and why what is commonly referred to...

Tue, 05/24/2016

Law school honors 2016 graduates for scholarship, leadership, service

LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas School of Law honored Class of 2016 graduates at a hooding ceremony May 14. During the ceremony, nine students received awards for distinguishing themselves in scholarship, leadership and service to the law school and the community. ...

Tue, 05/24/2016

New map details threat of Zika worldwide, including Europe and U.S.

LAWRENCE — Accounting for a host of often-overlooked drivers of transmission, team of researchers headquartered at the University of Kansas has plotted the Zika risk around the world with unprecedented resolution. ...

Tue, 05/24/2016

KU students excel at national, state math competitions

LAWRENCE — University of Kansas students excelled in both national and state competitions during the spring 2016 semester. ...

Tue, 05/24/2016

University community remembers engineering professor Nancy Kinnersley

LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas community is grieving the death of one of its engineering professors. ...

Tue, 05/24/2016

Steeples award recognizes faculty contributions to Kansas

LAWRENCE – Research and outreach encompassing distracted driving awareness, leadership development and healthy neighborhoods have earned three faculty members at the University of Kansas recognition with the Steeples Service to Kansas Award. ...

Tue, 05/24/2016

Five students receive KU Field Station Student Research Awards

LAWRENCE — Each spring, scientists from the Kansas Biological Survey refocus on their field research at the University of Kansas Field Station and across the state. Among these scientists are KU students, both graduate and undergraduate, who study pollinators, animal populations, ecosystem function, prairie restoration and more. ...

Tue, 05/24/2016

Amid European crisis, researcher studies Germany's historical role in migration

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Mon, 05/23/2016

Media advisory: Taliban could ramp up small attacks in wake of Mullah Mansour's death, researcher says

LAWRENCE — As a U.S. drone strike killed Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, a University of Kansas researcher who studies terrorism is available to discuss potential developments in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. ...

Thu, 05/19/2016

2016 Rocket Grants program awards $60K to 11 grant recipients

LAWRENCE — The 2016 Rocket Grants have awarded a total of $60,000 for 11 artist projects. Eight projects received Full Project Awards, and three received Research & Development Awards. To date, the Rocket Grants program has awarded $332,000 for 71 cross-disciplinary projects involving nearly 200 artists. ...

Thu, 05/19/2016

Dole Institute Archive announces 2016 Research Awards

LAWRENCE — The Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas has announced the recipients of its 2016 Dole Archives Research Awards. ...

Thu, 05/19/2016

Kansas oil production drops significantly in 2015

LAWRENCE — Oil production fell sharply in Kansas during 2015 as oil prices continued to drop, although natural gas production fell only a fraction of 1 percent despite noticeable gas price declines, according to estimates from the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas. ...

Thu, 05/19/2016

College awards recognize excellence in research, teaching, mentoring

LAWRENCE – Faculty contributions in research, teaching and mentoring were recognized this spring with a series of awards from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Kansas. The prizes acknowledge outstanding professors for commitment to advising and teaching to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as...

Thu, 05/19/2016

Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies awards 2016 Tinker Field Research Grants

LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies has made the final Tinker Field Research Grants to graduate students for research in Latin America for the 2014-2016 grant period. During the coming summer 12 KU graduate students from programs as diverse as Spanish and Portuguese,...

Thu, 05/19/2016

KU announces faculty sabbaticals for 2016-2017

LAWRENCE — Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little has approved 55 sabbaticals for the following faculty and academic staff at the University of Kansas and KU Medical Center. ...

Thu, 05/19/2016

Untold stories of women, secrecy and HIV in Nigeria

LAWRENCE — As increasing numbers of people living with HIV in Africa access life-saving medications, stories of the epidemic's heroes have begun to circulate globally. Across the continent, African women, in particular, are leading the charge in advocating for political, socioeconomic and public health reforms to stop the spread of...

Wed, 05/18/2016

International trade law expert can comment on U.S. move to increase duty on Chinese steel by 500 percent

LAWRENCE — The U.S. Commerce Department announced Wednesday it would raise import duties on Chinese steel by more than five times, a move said to combat the alleged selling of products below market prices. The 522 percent tax increase applies to Chinese-made cold-rolled flat steel, commonly used in car manufacturing,...

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