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New Global Scholars cohort selected
LAWRENCE — Fifteen sophomores at the University of Kansas have been competitively selected as Global Scholars, a program for undergraduate students who have a strong academic record and interest in global studies. ...
KU announces September Employees of the Month
Name: Ron HuettenmuellerTitle: Financial analyst senior, Comptroller’s Office...
New book examines how psychometrics, math education can work together to make better math teachers
LAWRENCE — Everyone has taken a math test at some point and saw they score they received, based on the number of questions they got right. The problem with that age-old method of testing is, while it reveals which answers were correct and which weren’t, it doesn’t give a full...
University community remembers George Worth, renowned authority on Victorian literature
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas community is grieving the loss of Professor Emeritus George Worth, who was part of the Department of English for 40 years. ...
Scholars to discuss role of area studies in the global age
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas will host a panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities facing the field of area studies during an event at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, in The Commons. The talk is free and open to the public. ...
Inaugural inventor prize recognizes KU researcher
LAWRENCE – A University of Kansas professor has been selected as one of the five inaugural recipients of a major fellowship for outstanding inventors for her work to combat superbug resistance to antibiotic drugs. ...
New research will create a 21st-century tally of biodiversity in Southwest Pacific
LAWRENCE — The Solomon Islands in the Southwest Pacific are best known as a locale for some of the most intense fighting of the Second World War, including the bloody Battle of Guadalcanal. But for nearly a century, the rich biodiversity of the islands has been instrumental to the study...
Professor urges oversight to discourage negative student fan behavior
LAWRENCE — Athletic teams may prefer home field or court advantage, but where do they draw the line between supportive and violent fans? A University of Kansas professor has co-authored a study examining a branded college basketball student fan organization to understand their motivations and to see if common theories...
Baxendale Innovation Award honors KU researchers for cancer-fighting technology
LAWRENCE — Two University of Kansas faculty members were honored for their cancer-fighting research technology that is showing considerable promise. ...
School of Education offering free professional development in KC
OVERLAND PARK — The School of Education at the University of Kansas has announced dates for the 2016-2017 Strategies Event Series, which will include three interactive lectures at the Edwards Campus. ...
Symposium will explore solutions on college affordability
LAWRENCE — Rising student loan burdens, escalating wealth inequality and a pervasive sense that the American Dream of financial security and economic mobility are slipping beyond the grasp of many Americans have led to questions whether higher education is still "worth it" in today’s economy. An upcoming symposium at the...
Programs to explore 'Portraits of Latinx Identity'
LAWRENCE — Even though Latina/os are now the largest “minority” group in Kansas and in the United States, they often struggle to make their voices and identities known. ...
Supreme Court hearing transgender rights case could be milestone, policy scholar says
LAWRENCE — The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear a case next year regarding transgender students' right to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity will likely be a milestone for the transgender movement, according to a University of Kansas expert who studies transgender politics and policy. ...
KU Endowment celebrating 125th anniversary
LAWRENCE — The fundraising foundation for the University of Kansas, KU Endowment, is celebrating a banner anniversary: 125 years since its inception as the first foundation for a public university in the country. ...
The Agency launches a new creative arm and a KU steam whistle ringtone
LAWRENCE — The Agency, the student-run advertising and branding student organization at the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications, launched an entity last week called Steam Whistle Creative. ...
University Honors Program receives top rating
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Honors Program is one of 11 universities nationwide to receive a “Five Mortarboard” rating in Inside Honors: Ratings and Reviews of Sixty Public University Honors Programs. The program has been top rated in each of the past three editions of the publication (2012, 2014,...
RedTire program earns 2016 UEDA Award of Excellence
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas School of Business program has received a 2016 Award of Excellence from the University Economic Development Association (UEDA). ...
Brown to receive Woodyard International Educator Award
LAWRENCE — Professor Christopher Brown is the 2016 recipient of the George and Eleanor Woodyard International Educator Award, which recognizes faculty on the Lawrence campus who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in strengthening the University of Kansas’ international programming. ...
Chancellor Gray-Little to host KU Elevate event in Wichita
WICHITA — The University of Kansas will showcase four of its most innovative researchers – with some help from one of its most fascinating aerospace engineering alumni – at an event in Wichita this week. ...
Professor will chair organization supporting women in science, engineering
LAWRENCE — The Member and Geographic Activities Assembly of the Institute of Engineering and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical professional organization with over 429,000 members in 160 countries, recently selected Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, professor of mathematics, courtesy professor of the departments of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Aerospace...
Survey gauges teachers' beliefs on intelligence, ability, effort; how they can influence learning
Distinguished professor to explore families, societies left behind by migrants
LAWRENCE — Victor Agadjanian, Foundation Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas, will deliver his Distinguished Professor Inaugural Lecture, “Those Whom Migrants Leave Behind: Why Should We Care?” at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 10 in the Bruckmiller Room of the Adams Alumni Center. ...
KU nominates 5 students for Rhodes, Marshall scholarships
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has endorsed applications for five students for prestigious fellowships for study in the United Kingdom. ...
KU concludes 104th Homecoming celebration
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas celebrated its 104th Homecoming Oct. 16-22. The annual event was organized by the KU Alumni Association and a student-led Homecoming steering committee, which was directed by Katie Gerard, a Hanover senior in supply chain management. She worked with Alumni Association adviser Jacey Krehbiel, assistant...
New book examines America’s greatest ghost-story writer
LAWRENCE — In a season of scary-clown mania – as in every other season for the past four decades – Stephen King gets all the attention as America’s greatest writer of horror-fantasy. ...
World Series puts team's controversial name, mascot in spotlight
LAWRENCE — Game one of the 2016 World Series is scheduled for tonight, and to say it’s a historic series is an understatement. Both the Cleveland and Chicago teams are looking to end championship droughts of 60-plus and 100-plus years, respectively. Aside from the baseball and history aspects, there is...
With election winding down, KU experts can discuss candidates, issues
LAWRENCE —As one of the most unexpected presidential campaign matchups in decades comes to a close, University of Kansas political experts are available to discuss issues surrounding the Nov. 8 election. ...
Alumni will fund center to prepare students for careers in transactional law
LAWRENCE – The Polsinelli law firm and its University of Kansas alumni attorneys have committed $250,000 to create the Polsinelli Transactional Law Center at the KU School of Law. ...
Researchers win NSF grant to study frontline workers to human trafficking
"Human trafficking is so complicated that survivors' identities might be read in different ways by different people," said Corinne Schwarz, a KU doctoral candidate in women, gender and sexuality studies and a co-principal investigator for the project. "Someone might be a survivor of sex or labor trafficking, but if they...