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University community mourns death of student Noah Graham
The University of Kansas community is grieving the death of student Noah Graham. ...
University Theatre announces 2015-16 performance season
The upcoming University Theatre season deals firsthand with current events and social issues with shows addressing teen domestic violence, riots and feminism – not to mention a little humor and a Broadway musical. Making a strong statement about the values of theatre with diversity as an overarching theme, the season...
Art and Design Building to be named for former Chancellor Laurence Chalmers
It was August 1969 when the 11th chancellor of the University of Kansas, E. Laurence Chalmers, arrived on the Hill. ...
Rock Chalk Roadshow coming to 5 Kansas cities
The 13th annual Rock Chalk Roadshow from Kansas’ flagship university will hit the road from Sunday, Aug. 23, to Thursday, Aug. 27, with tour events in Manhattan, Salina, Hutchinson, Garden City and Hays. It will include visits with students and families from 157 Kansas schools. ...
Dole Institute honors 70th anniversary of V-J Day
In honor of the 70th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day), the Robert J. Dole Archive & Special Collections has released more than 42 letters documenting the experience of Kenneth “Kenny” Dole, younger brother of former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, who served in the war’s Pacific Theater. ...
KU community remembers university carpenter Gunter de Vries
The University of Kansas community is remembering carpenter Gunter de Vries, 71, who died Aug. 4. ...
Heavy traffic expected for residence halls move-in day
University of Kansas employees and the Lawrence community should anticipate heavy traffic around 15th and Iowa streets on Thursday, Aug. 20, which is the primary move-in day for student housing residents. ...
Spencer leading digital initiative for university art museums
Spencer Museum Director of Academic Programs Celka Straughn is one of three investigators leading the College Art Association project Resources for Academic Art Museum Professionals (RAAMP). RAAMP recently received $132,600 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of a free, publicly accessible website that will collect, store...
KU Engineering SELF Fellows will visit Google, Amazon in unique learning opportunity
The booming business environment of the Pacific Northwest will serve as a real-world classroom for 25 members of the senior class of the Self Engineering Leadership Fellows at the University of Kansas School of Engineering. ...
Eighty-four undergraduates present summer research
Each summer, undergraduate students from around the world join current University of Kansas students in conducting research with KU faculty. Eighty-four of these students presented their research last month at the KU Summer Undergraduate Research Poster Session at The Commons. ...
Journalism student wins national sports writing award
Amie Just, a University of Kansas journalism junior from Funk, Nebraska, has been named a winner of the prestigious 2015 Jim Murray Memorial Foundation scholarship, a national award for excellence in sports writing at the college level. ...
Strategic hire to enhance KU autism research program
Matthew Mosconi, a psychologist and neuroscientist who studies autism spectrum disorders, will join the University of Kansas as an associate professor in the Clinical Child Psychology Program and associate scientist in the Life Span Institute starting Tuesday, Aug. 18. ...
KU community, public invited to presentations by College dean candidates
Four candidates for the position of dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas will make public presentations during their respective campus visits. ...
Improvement in women's education in Middle East has not translated to economic, political success
Though women in the Middle East and North Africa have made major educational attainment gains in recent years, they have not translated into means of influence such as labor market participation and political representation. ...
Journalism instructor to give webinar for Poynter Institute
Lisa McLendon, coordinator of the Bremner Editing Center at the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications, will have a national audience later this month when she presents a grammar webinar for the Poynter Institute, an internationally recognized, nonprofit training school for excellence in journalism. ...
Movements on racial, economic justice historically difficult to interconnect, KU expert says
Protesters of the Black Lives Matter movement in recent weeks have appeared at Democratic presidential candidates' events, including shutting down a Bernie Sanders rally on Social Security in Seattle. ...
Research into mammal evolution focuses on pivotal Eocene interval in Turkey
Supported with a five-year, $580,000 award from the National Science Foundation, scientists from the University of Kansas are departing this month to investigate how climate, plate tectonics and other factors influenced evolution by bringing species together in modern-day Turkey 42 million years ago during the Eocene epoch. ...
Central Asians' view of democracy not the same as Westerners', book says
As countries in Central Asia move toward more authoritarian governments and concerns over human rights abuses increase, a new book explores why the West’s efforts to promote democracy in the region have failed. ...
KU’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter inducts 76 members
The University of Kansas Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society has initiated 76 new members. ...
TRIO McNair Summer Research Symposium encourages undergraduate scholarship
Twenty University of Kansas TRIO McNair Scholars presented their summer research projects at the McNair Research Symposium on July 24 at the Kansas Union. Since 2003, the annual program has hosted a total of 240 student presentations. ...
University mourns death of English professor and renowned poet Ken Irby
The University of Kansas community is remembering Ken Irby, a longtime English professor and poet who died July 30 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was 79. ...
Memorial service for Chancellor Hemenway to be streamed online
A memorial service for former University of Kansas Chancellor Robert Hemenway, who passed away July 31, is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 9, at the Dole Institute of Politics. The service will be streamed online. ...
Inaugural KU Beckman Scholars announced
The University of Kansas has announced its first Beckman Scholars in a program designed to encourage undergraduate research. ...
Edwards Campus launches 4 certificate programs
– The University of Kansas Edwards Campus will launch four certificate programs this fall to complement the current programs in business, global and international studies, and environmental assessment. The Edwards Campus is offering these programs to address businesses’ trending interests in certificates and the benefits they offer. ...
Dean publishes book on architectural legacy of Charles Vest, MIT president
The publisher Rowland & Littlefield has released "Leading With Aesthetics: The Transformational Leadership of Charles M. Vest at MIT" by Mahesh Daas, dean of the School of Architecture, Design & Planning. ...
Online tool enables public to track 'tip-of-the tongue' states, speech errors
We’ve all been there. Occasionally, in the midst of a conversation, our mind flashes blank, and it’s impossible to conjure the word for a thing, place or person. We’ll gesture with our hands and feel like we’re on the verge of remembering. But the word won’t come. ...
City to smoke-test sewer lines around campus Aug. 5-14
There might be patches of smoke around the University of Kansas campus during the next nine days, but there’s no need to worry. ...
Media advisory: Education experts available for back-to-school news
As students begin returning to classrooms across the country this month, teachers will turn their attention to lesson plans and tests while parents, administrators and community members hope for a successful school year. Researchers at the University of Kansas can speak with media about the latest research in the field,...
Chemical biology training program secures funding through 2020
A University of Kansas graduate training program that supports national efforts to cross-train chemists and biologists at the intersection of their disciplines has received federal funding to continue its mission for five more years. ...