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Media advisory: Professor can discuss coverage, government communications around Zika, virus ravaging Brazil
LAWRENCE — Zika, a mosquito-borne virus that may cause birth defects including underdeveloped brains in newborns, has been ravaging Brazil and the nation’s government is scrambling to fight the illness in advance of the upcoming Summer Olympics. Brazil’s government has announced troops will be deployed to hand out information on...
KU, KUMC students will present at Capitol Graduate Research Summit
LAWRENCE — The value and benefits of research performed at the University of Kansas and KU Medical Center will be highlighted at the the Capitol Graduate Research Summit. ...
Center produces Spanish version of disability language guidelines
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Research and Training Center on Independent Living (RTC/IL) has produced a Spanish language version of its internationally known Guidelines: How to Write and Report About People with Disabilities. ...
Spencer Museum of Art awarded $487K for interdisciplinary arts research
LAWRENCE — The Spencer Museum of Art has announced a $487,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch the Spencer’s Integrated Arts Research Initiative (IARI). This award supports interdisciplinary research efforts among the art museum and partners at the University of Kansas and beyond. ...
KU startup earns $300K SBIR contract to develop cancer-fighting drug technology
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas startup company has received a federal contract to continue its work on new drug delivery methods for developing more effective cancer treatments. ...
$400,000 grant will support KU students interning in Asia
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Office of Study Abroad has received $400,000 in funding to provide significant scholarships to KU undergraduate and graduate students participating in accredited internship programs in East or Southeast Asia over the next two years. Provided through the support of the Freeman Foundation, these scholarships...
New Foundation Professor among world's top influencers in education fields
LAWRENCE — A recognized authority in several areas of education will soon bring his expertise to the University of Kansas as its newest Foundation Distinguished Professor. ...
Candidate presentations set for director of Student Veteran Center
LAWRENCE — Four candidates will make public presentations in the coming weeks as the University of Kansas launches a search for a director of its new Student Veteran Center, set to open in January 2017. ...
Two films with KU ties to show at Slamdance Film Festival
LAWRENCE – Two films showing at the Slamdance Film Festival, which opens today, Jan. 22, have ties to the University of Kansas. ...
KU expert available to speak to reporters about potential discovery of new planet
LAWRENCE — Yesterday, scientists at the California Institute of Technology announced the possible detection of a ninth planet orbiting the Sun. According to the Caltech researchers, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, indirect detection suggests “Planet Nine” orbits about 20 times farther from the Sun than Neptune. The planet has yet...
U.S. migrants returning to Mexico face challenges, strain the system
LAWRENCE — As a Pew Research Center study late last year noted, more Mexicans have been leaving the United States than arriving for the first time in six decades. ...
Media advisory: Supreme Court sides with Kansas, arguments presented by KU Law professor
LAWRENCE — The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it ruled in favor of the state of Kansas and reversed a decision by the Kansas Supreme Court that had vacated the death sentences of three men: Sidney Gleason and brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr. The court voted 8-1 in rejecting...
Media advisory: Latino millennials are not one united voting bloc, professor says
LAWRENCE — The Pew Research Center reported this week that Hispanic millennials would make up nearly half of the 27.3 million eligible U.S. Latino voters in this year's presidential election. ...
KU to Host Future City Competition Jan. 23
LAWRENCE — More than 400 middle school students from across the Midwest will present futuristic cities along with their innovative waste management systems at this year’s Future City Great Plains Regional Competition, set for Saturday, Jan. 23. The competition will run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the University...
Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center announces January graduates
YODER – Fifty-six new law enforcement officers were congratulated by U.S. District Court Judge Eric Melgren during their Jan. 15 graduation from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center. ...
KU to honor 74 high school seniors from Cherokee, Crawford counties
LAWRENCE — Students from 10 Kansas high schools will be honored Feb. 1 by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
KU community remembers Professor Toni Johnson
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas community is mourning the death of Toni Johnson, associate professor of social welfare, who died Jan. 7 in Austin, Texas. She was 59. ...
Applications due March 1 for educational opportunity scholarship
LAWRENCE – Qualifying University of Kansas students have until March 1 to submit applications for the 2016 Jerry Bailey Educational Opportunity Scholarship. The scholarship is part of the Achievement & Assessment Institute’s (AAI) Center for Educational Opportunity Programs (CEOP) and was established to support underrepresented and first-generation students with limited...
Neighbors would rather talk over the fence than online, study finds
LAWRENCE – In today’s world, the old adage “good fences make good neighbors” may be more like “good Facebook privacy settings make good neighbors,” two University of Kansas professors found. ...
Project exploring water on Kickapoo reservation receives grant
TOPEKA — The Kansas Humanities Council (KHC) recently awarded KU Endowment a grant for $3,500 in support of “Water is Life: The Significance of Water Among the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas” photo documentary project and exhibition. ...
Jordanian election law changes led to wasted votes, professor says
LAWRENCE — In response to the Arab Spring movement, Jordanian leaders in July 2012 announced reforms to the electoral law, which introduced proportional representation for 27 seats to be elected on national lists, increasing the country's assembly by 30 seats and increased the mandatory number of seats for women from...
Researchers adapt successful strengths-based mental health recovery model for adolescents
LAWRENCE — Researchers at the University of Kansas have adapted a promising adult case management practice for use with adolescents. Early results show the Strengths Model, a recovery-oriented case management practice that focuses on individual strengths, is not only having a positive effect on young people, it is helping the...
KU to host annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas will celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a series of events on campus and throughout the city of Lawrence. The theme of this year’s celebration is One Dream. ...
KU introducing undergraduate Sustainability Certificate
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas is now offering undergraduate students the opportunity to earn an undergraduate Certificate in Sustainability. ...
Nominate a Student Employee of the Year
Departmental supervisors can submit their nominations via an online form. The deadline for nominations is Jan. 31. Only one nomination per student will be accepted. ...
Researchers named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
LAWRENCE — Two prominent University of Kansas researchers – each with a track record of turning ideas into inventions and even new companies – have just received yet another high honor: election as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. ...
Genetic data does not support ancient trans-Atlantic migration, professor says
LAWRENCE — A few recent publications and documentaries have hypothesized about an ancient trans-Atlantic migration that possibly could mean ancient Europeans or ancient Israelites contributed to the population of Native Americans, often called an "Ice Age Columbus." ...