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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. ...
$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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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. ...
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. ...
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 introducing undergraduate Sustainability Certificate
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas is now offering undergraduate students the opportunity to earn an undergraduate Certificate in Sustainability. ...
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...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
Media advisory: Lore of 'El Chapo' found in Mexican drug lord ballads
LAWRENCE – Movie deal or not, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera’s status as a folk hero has been cemented in the ballads sung throughout Mexico, a University of Kansas professor said. ...
Audio-Reader receives grant to help fund braille program guide, other projects
LAWRENCE – The University of Kansas Audio-Reader Network, a reading and information service for the blind and print-disabled, has received a $9,324 grant from the Ethel and Raymond Rice Foundation. The grant will help fund Audio-Reader’s Braille Program Guide, closed-circuit radios for Audio-Reader listeners, and it will pay for Audio...
‘Chi-Raq’ opens in Lawrence on Jan. 15
LAWRENCE – Local filmmaker Kevin Willmott’s latest work, “Chi-Raq,” a movie that uses satire to tackle gun violence in Chicago, will open at Liberty Hall on Friday, Jan. 15. ...
Professor receives NEH fellowship for Emmett Till research
LAWRENCE – The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a fellowship to a University of Kansas professor for his research on the murder of Emmett Till. ...
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." ...
Central District transformation begins this week
LAWRENCE — Security fencing is being put in place as the University of Kansas begins initial stages of Central District redevelopment. ...
KU researchers invited to apply for Proof of Concept Fund support
LAWRENCE – University of Kansas inventors are invited to submit applications for the Proof of Concept Fund, which supports KU technologies that are near the commercialization stage and could become marketplace solutions in the near future. ...
Distinguished professor to offer operatic performance for inaugural lecture
LAWRENCE — Most distinguished professors at the University of Kansas don’t break out into song. Then again, most aren’t internationally renowned mezzo-sopranos, either. ...
Architecture Department hosting Food, Energy + Water Symposium
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Department of Architecture is hosting INFEWS: Innovations at the Nexus of Food + Energy + Water Symposium. The event will join distinguished researchers and design professionals from across the U.S. with faculty and students from KU departments to study issues related to the health...
The Commons awards Starter Grants
LAWRENCE – The Commons awarded $9,946 to a faculty research project in the fall 2015 cycle of its Interdisciplinary Starter Grants competition. ...