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KU Student Housing selects Aramis Watson as associate director for residence life
LAWRENCE — Aramis Watson has been selected as University of Kansas Student Housing’s associate director for residence life. She began her new position April 25. Watson earned her bachelor’s degree from KU and master’s degree from Arizona State University. Her professional background includes serving as assistant director at The Ohio...
KU announces Student Veteran Center director
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has named a program manager for its new Student Veteran Center. ...
Biospecimen Blood Drive to benefit KU Cancer Center research
FAIRWAY— Kansas City area residents can help advance cancer research by participating in the third annual Biospecimen Blood Drive from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, May 13, at the University of Kansas Clinical Research Center, 4350 Shawnee Mission Parkway. ...
Six new fossil species form 'snapshot' of Asian primates stressed by ancient climate change
LAWRENCE — In a study to be published this week in the journal Science, researchers describe unearthing a “mother lode” of a half-dozen fossil primate species in southern China. ...
University community remembers paleobotany leader Thomas N. Taylor
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas community is mourning the death of professor and curator Thomas N. Taylor. He died April 28 at his home in Lawrence. He was 78. ...
Senior earns NIH Oxford Cambridge Scholarship
LAWRENCE — Jessica van Loben Sels’ latest scholarship will allow the University of Kansas senior to continue her research at the University of Cambridge and at the National Institutes of Health, studying serious, disease-causing viruses. ...
Stop Day tour will offer perspective on seven liberal arts
LAWRENCE — Retired University of Kansas professor Ted Johnson will give his annual Stop Day walking tour of the architecture and sculptures on the Lawrence campus on Friday, May 6. ...
KU will honor faculty, academic staff retirees
PLEASE NOTE: There are two retirement luncheons in May:...
Legendary faculty honored with KU Engineering’s highest award
LAWRENCE — Distinguished University of Kansas School of Engineering Professors Emeriti Ross McKinney and Jan Roskam are the 2016 winners of the Distinguished Engineering Service Award. McKinney served as the director of KU’s Environmental Engineering Graduate program from 1960 until his retirement in 1993. Roskam’s career at KU spanned five...
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Estate gift establishes $4M scholarship fund
LAWRENCE — A $4 million estate gift from University of Kansas alumnus Irving Kuraner and his wife, Leona, will establish a scholarship fund to provide assistance to undergraduate students in any discipline who show academic excellence and financial need. ...
'We Shall Overcome' historical marker to commemorate 1965 campus sit-in
LAWRENCE — A historical marker commemorating a 1965 student sit-in at the University of Kansas will be unveiled Wednesday at a ceremony in Strong Hall. ...
Spencer Museum announces 2016 creativity award recipients
LAWRENCE — The Spencer Museum of Art has announced the 2016 recipients of the Jack and Lavon Brosseau Creativity Awards. Established by benefactor Lavon Brosseau in 2011, the awards honor thought-provoking creative work in the categories of writing and diverse media from undergraduate students in any field. ...
May 7 Bicycle Donation Day to collect bikes for upcoming June giveaway
OVERLAND PARK — The Greater Kansas City Alumni Network of the KU Alumni Association and Healthy Hawks of the KU Medical Center’s Department of Pediatrics will collect bicycles from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 7, in the Jayhawk Central parking lot of the KU Edwards Campus, 12600 Quivira Road. ...
KU promotes innovation with new Proof of Concept Fund Awards
LAWRENCE — Demonstrating that a laboratory concept will work in practice is one key to moving a research discovery into the marketplace. The University of Kansas supports discovery and innovation in multiple ways, including the granting of Proof of Concept (POC) Fund awards for inventions that are near the commercialization...
Study: For Asian-Americans, interracial marriage isn't the measure of assimilation it once was
LAWRENCE — Interracial marriage is not the single best way to measure levels of assimilation for immigrants and their descendants, based on a University of Kansas researcher's new study on Asian-American interethnic marriages. ...
Nanjing Tech signs memorandum of understanding with SADP
LAWRENCE — During the spring semester of 2015, Assistant Professor of Architecture Hui Cai of the Department of Architecture’s Health and Wellness program organized a joint design studio with the School of Architecture at Nanjing Tech, China. That led to an agreement that paves the way for future collaboration. ...
KU announces new 2016-2020 Self Graduate Fellows
KU Field Station’s Baldwin Woods Forest Preserve doubles in size
The greater Baldwin Woods, named a National Natural Landmark in 1980 by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, is recognized as a site of environmental significance. It lies within an ecotone, the border region where the North American eastern deciduous forest meets the tallgrass prairie. Thus, many species are living...
Laird Essay Contest winners announced
LAWRENCE — The Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREES) has announced that this year’s Roy D. and Betty Laird Essay Contest winners, who will present their work at a Brown Bag Lecture at noon Tuesday, May 3, in 318 Bailey Hall. ...
Open house set for Studio 804's latest passive solar home
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Department of Architecture’s Studio 804 design-build program has completed its latest project, a net-zero, passive solar house. It will be open to the public 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at 1200 Pennsylvania St. ...
KU to host cyberdefense competition
LAWRENCE — A cybersecurity competition hosted this weekend at the University of Kansas School of Engineering will pit Jayhawk engineering students and soldiers from the First Infantry Division at Fort Riley against a group of professional hackers. The competition is set for April 30 and May 1 at Eaton Hall. ...
KU team finalists in HUD Affordable Housing Competition
LAWRENCE — A team of architecture and business school students was among four national finalists who traveled to Washington, D.C., last week to compete in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2016 Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition. ...
DEI Advisory Group presents report to chancellor, provost
LAWRENCE — After more than four months of work, the university’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Advisory Group yesterday presented its report to Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Sara Rosen. ...
Design students to present innovative projects for city transportation
LAWRENCE — The public is invited to attend project presentations by three University of Kansas Department of Design students who are recipients of the 2015-2016 MV Transportation Scholarship. The presentations and reception will be from 4-5 p.m. Friday, April 29, at the Forum in Marvin Hall. ...
Intervention helps adults reduce sugary beverage intake, study shows
LAWRENCE — While millions of adults consume several hundred calories in sugary drinks every day, most of the messages about the dangers of overconsumption of sweet beverages focus on the risks they present children. A University of Kansas researcher has co-authored a study showing an intervention aimed at educating adults...