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Media advisory: Debate expert available to discuss presidential primary debates
A University of Kansas communication studies professor can discuss trends in presidential primary debates and provide commentary on how candidates perform. ...
Continuing Education offers new training programs to meet KC workforce needs
— KU Professional & Continuing Education (KUPCE) is offering a pair of August professional training programs at the Edwards Campus in Overland Park. The programs will address needs emphasized during recent collaborations between university and industry leaders. ...
Audio-Reader hosting music, equipment donation drive in Aug. 10 in Topeka
The Kansas Audio-Reader Network will host a donation drive for its annual benefit sale from 1 to 5:30 p.m. Aug. 10 at the Dillons at Fairlawn Plaza in Topeka. Folks can bring their donations of gently used audio equipment, vinyl records (especially rock records), CDs, books on CDs and musical...
KU announces student Fulbright winners
Seven University of Kansas students have been selected for prestigious Fulbright awards for research, study or teaching English abroad for 2015-16. ...
KU announces June employees of the month
coordinator for the annual Biology Honors Symposium, Gere worked with the chair of the Biology Honors Program to compile all necessary paperwork and departmental honors, and she was always mindful of deadlines. She worked with the department graphic designer to create programs and posters for the symposium and arranged for...
Researchers develop tool to help child welfare providers analyze data
University of Kansas researchers have developed a web-based tool that will help child welfare agencies across the country meet periodic federal case level reviews and collect other qualitative data that will help improve services to children and families. ...
Professor can discuss Fed report recommending millennials put off home ownership by 10 years
Researchers at the St. Louis Federal Reserve issued a report this week suggesting that millennials might be better off postponing home ownership by 10 years or more. The advice is counter to traditional wisdom that buying a home is a sound financial move for young people to build financial well-being. ...
Kansas Water Congress set for Aug. 6-7
Water Congress is a not-for-profit organization representing a diverse group of agricultural, industrial and municipal water users that promote conservation and development of the state’s groundwater and surface-water resources. Groundwater, particularly from the massive High Plains aquifer, is the primary source of water in western and central Kansas. Eastern Kansas...
New research will boost grasp of North American carbon cycle
For centuries, people have transformed and splintered landscapes and ecosystems in North America. This radical altering of nature makes it tough for scientists to analyze the continent’s life-sustaining carbon cycle — the biological, geological and chemical routes the element carbon takes to shift among earth, water and atmosphere. ...
Startup receives $270,000 from NSF, Google, Digital Sandbox
KANSAS — PatientsVoices, a startup company located in the Bioscience & Technology Business Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center, started with a question: How can we improve the patient experience in hospitals across the nation? ...
Fire & Rescue Training Institute receives $450,000 grant
Driving fire apparatus can be a dangerous task even under the best of conditions. Responding in all kinds of weather, with unpredictable traffic conditions and the stress of trying to get to an incident as quickly as possible can result in unexpected consequences. There are almost 2,500 accidents in...
Kansas Initiative for Developmental Ongoing Screening project offers resources for systems change
Kansas early childhood advocates and the communities they serve have a new website and online toolkit to help improve the lives of the state’s youngest residents. The Kansas Initiative for Developmental Ongoing Screening (KIDOS) provides best-practice training and coordinates the expansion of developmental and social-emotional screenings of children from birth...
Media advisory: August marks 70th anniversary of atomic bombings; experts available to comment
August marks the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an event that marked the end of World War II and is the only use of nuclear weapons in history. The University of Kansas has experts who can speak to the bombings and are experts on wartime...
Compulsory schooling research could point to success of mandatory community college plan
Providing two years of free community college to qualifying students is expected to be a hot topic during the 2016 presidential campaign. ...
CEOP secures $1.99M for College Assistance Migrant Program
The children of migrant workers face formidable obstacles to educational success and, not surprisingly, as a group have one of the highest dropout rates in the nation. Poverty, low wages, deplorable and unsafe living conditions, interrupted schooling, lack of social mobility and paucity of educational opportunities plague these families. ...
Kelly Reynolds named KU director of state relations
The University of Kansas has named Kelly Reynolds, who earned her bachelor’s degree from KU in 2005, to serve as the university’s new director of state relations. ...
KU to host public forum on Central District redevelopment
The University of Kansas invites Lawrence residents to learn about redevelopment plans for KU’s Central District at a public forum from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, July 29, in the Schwegler Elementary School gym. ...
Alumni Association announces resignation of President Kevin Corbett
The University of Kansas Alumni Association (KUAA) announced today the resignation of association President Kevin Corbett, effective July 31. Corbett, who has led the KU Alumni Association since 2004, has accepted an executive vice president position with Affiliated Builders Group (ABG), headquartered in Edmond, Oklahoma. ...
Math key factor in career fields where women are underrepresented
Math – not college faculty’s belief that female students lack brilliance – points to why fewer women are in STEM fields, research at the University of Kansas shows. ...
School of Engineering, Westar Energy team up on solar project
An energy-efficient and highly visible educational tool is the latest addition to a state-of-the art research building at the University of Kansas School of Engineering. ...
Time for revolution in higher education funding has come, professors say
Two University of Kansas professors walk the halls of the same university, teach many of the same students and collaborate on research, yet they traversed different paths to get there, with results that diverge even today. ...
KU Media Productions becomes part of The Agency
KU Media Productions is now part of The Agency, the student-led strategic communications initiative of the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications, The Agency announced this week. ...
Ancestors of Native Americans migrated in single wave, genetic study finds
— A new genome-scale study that includes a University of Kansas anthropological geneticist has determined ancestors of present-day Native Americans arrived in the Americas as part of a single-migration wave from Siberia no earlier than 23,000 years ago. ...
KU to host readings, discussions about black poetry
The University of Kansas will stage a series of public poetry readings and discussions as part of an institute on black poetry. ...
KU's Project for Innocence wins murder conviction reversal in federal court
A learning experience for one University of Kansas law student turned into a second chance last week for a woman serving life in prison in connection with a high-profile Topeka murder. ...
Research shows solar events unlikely triggers for birth defects on Earth
Studies find airplane crews at high altitude are exposed to potentially harmful levels of radiation from cosmic rays. ...
Testing expert: Despite revamped No Child Left Behind, politicians, educators, parents at odds over accountability
The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a revamped version of No Child Left Behind, the first time in 14 years Congress has managed to pass a new version of the highly criticized education law. The measure is in doubt, however, even after the House passed its own version the week...
Reporters facing charges for Ferguson arrests part of 'deliberate, unjustifiable' interference with press, media expert says
Two journalists who were arrested while covering the August 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri, could still face charges. St. Louis County prosecutors will soon decide whether to charge Ryan Reilly of the Huffington Post and Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post. ...
Conference helps mark 100 years of KU amphibian, reptile research
The KU Biodiversity Institute will celebrate 100 years of amphibian and reptile research this month with an international herpetology conference, exhibitions and a variety of educational public events. ...
Health researcher addresses UN event
Christina Holt, associate director of KU Work Group for Community Health and Development at the Life Span Institute, addressed the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at UN Headquarters in New York City earlier this month. The Work Group is one of the only UN World Health Organization Collaborating Centers...