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KU announces 2016-17 Staff Fellows
LAWRENCE — Neeli Bendapudi, provost and executive vice chancellor, and Mike Rounds, associate vice provost for human resource management, have announced the 2016-17 class of staff fellows at the University of Kansas. ...
Startup School@KU course begins Sept. 28
LAWRENCE — Success may begin with an idea, but it is achieved with know-how. An annual program designed to build entrepreneurial knowledge among students, faculty and staff at the University of Kansas is now open for registration. ...
Chancellor Gray-Little to step down in summer 2017
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Expert on sophisticated traders can address Leon Cooperman's SEC case
LAWRENCE — The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused hedge-fund manager Leon Cooperman and his firm, Omega Advisors Inc., of insider trading. It is alleged he agreed to refrain from using information he received from a corporate executive but then went ahead and traded on it. ...
KU Alumni Association announces 2016-2017 Kansas City Network officers, board members
LAWRENCE — The Alumni Association’s Greater Kansas City Network has elected its officers and six new board members for the 2016-2017 term. ...
Common book keynote to feature Jabari Asim of The Crisis magazine
LAWRENCE — Jabari Asim, celebrated author and editor-in-chief of The Crisis magazine, will present the fall keynote lecture for the University of Kansas’s Common Book program at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, in Budig Hall Room 130. Asim will talk about his work in relation to the 2016-2017 KU Common...
New initiative pairs Greek and community organizations as service partners
LAWRENCE — The Center for Civic and Social Responsibility and the Fraternity and Sorority Life program have collaborated to create a new initiative, the Fraternity Sorority Community Service Partnership. The purpose of the partnership is to continuously support the advancements of the Greek letter organizations at the University of Kansas...
KU professor wins national award for study on budgeting reforms in developing countries
KU to honor 83 high school seniors from 8 southwest Kansas counties
LAWRENCE — Students from 15 Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, Sept. 28, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
KU to honor 146 seniors from Douglas and Jefferson county high schools
LAWRENCE - Students from 13 Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, Sept. 28, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
KU to honor 118 seniors from Harvey and Reno county high schools
LAWRENCE - Students from 12 Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, Sept. 28, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
Departments present Whelan Kansas Leadership for Learning Award
LAWRENCE — Each year, the Department of Special Education and the Center for Research on Learning at the University of Kansas recognize the work of educators in Kansas with the Whelan Kansas Leadership for Learning Award. ...
Debate team opens with wins in Atlanta, Kansas City
LAWRENCE — The KU debate squad opened the season Sept. 17-20 with teams competing at national tournaments in Kansas City and Atlanta. The KU duo of Sion Bell and Quaram Robinson took first place at a tournament hosted by the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the KU team of Jacob...
Noted analyst to speak on Ukrainian identity
LAWRENCE — The Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREES) announces that Mykola Riabchuk, president of the Ukrainian PEN Center, will deliver the first of two Ukrainian Studies Fall 2016 Palij Lectures. Riabchuk's lecture, “Two Ukraines Reconsidered: Forging the National Identity in a War-Torn Country,” will be at...
Rasnak Award recognizes fraternity for establishment of accessibility scholarship
LAWRENCE — The Academic Achievement and Access Center at the University of Kansas awarded the Mary Ann Rasnak Access Champion Award to the Alpha Nu chapter of Beta Theta Pi fraternity on Sept. 19. The fraternity is the first organization to receive the award, previously given to individuals, for making...
Fossils preserved by Kansas chalk for eons will be digitized and shared via new NSF grant
LAWRENCE — If you stroll the halls of a natural history museum anywhere in the world and come face-to-face with the prehistoric fossil of a pterodactyl or mosasaur, the odds are good it was unearthed in Kansas. ...
Ideology, politics thwart creation of Russian school of international relations
LAWRENCE — Despite post-Cold War aspirations to create a distinct national school of international relations in Russia, political and ideological influences from the Kremlin have thwarted these efforts, according to University of Kansas researchers. ...
Two KU seniors selected for Astronaut Scholarship
LAWRENCE — Two University of Kansas students were selected to receive the 2016 Astronaut Scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. Their achievement will be recognized in a special event featuring NASA astronaut Sam Gemar. ...
Presidential rhetoric expert says 2016 debates are a ‘wild card’ in how voters will respond
LAWRENCE — This fall’s presidential debates may seem more like sporting events than politics, according to a University of Kansas professor and expert on presidential rhetoric. ...
Office of the Chancellor accepting nominations for University Scholarly Achievement Award
LAWRENCE — The Office of the Chancellor is now accepting nominations for the annual University Scholarly Achievement Award, which recognizes four outstanding University of Kansas researchers who are changing the world through research and scholarship. ...
Top political strategist will focus on role of women during KU visit
LAWRENCE — One of the nation’s leading political strategists will discuss the role of women in the 2016 elections during an appearance next week at the University of Kansas. ...
KU receives NEH grant for alternative academic doctoral training
LAWRENCE— A National Endowment for the Humanities grant awarded to the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and the Hall Center for the Humanities will allow the University of Kansas to develop transformations in doctoral education that will redefine the humanities Ph.D. for the 21st century. ...
Book examines news coverage of mothers who kill their children; author argues for understanding of risk factors
LAWRENCE — When Casey Anthony was accused of murdering her daughter in 2008, the 24-hour news cycle and social media portrayed her as a villain, an unfit mother and someone without remorse. She was found not guilty. ...
Metadata project to seek trends, themes in African-American literature
LAWRENCE — Big data has helped researchers advance many scientific fields in recent years, but it also extends to how humanities scholars analyze trends and themes in literature. ...