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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. ...
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. ...
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...
Author to speak of her travels in the footsteps of the enslaved
LAWRENCE — Acclaimed author, broadcaster and journalist Aminatta Forna will make a special presentation that traces her own links to the cultural heritage of Sierra Leone through the enslaved in the Americas. The talk, “From Root to Branch: Travels in the Footsteps of the Enslaved,” will be at 7...
Panelists will discuss mixed messages of 'I'm Just Honoring Your Culture'
LAWRENCE — With Pocahontas and Indian warriors perennially popular as Halloween costumes and the Cleveland Indians playing in the World Series, appropriation of Native cultures is a timely topic. An upcoming panel at the University of Kansas will address some of those issues. ...
KU lecturer proposes feminist legal reforms to reduce sexual violence against Native American women
Social welfare professor publishes new book, wins one of field’s highest honors
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas professor of social welfare and pioneer in the field has published a new edition of her widely used textbook for social workers and received one of the highest honors the profession offers. Rosemary Chapin, professor of social work at KU, has authored the fourth...
Kansas association honors pharmacist for work to fight prescription-drug addiction
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas Professor Morris Faiman has earned the Cardinal Health Generation Rx Champions Award from the Kansas Pharmacists Association (KPhA) for his efforts to curb community-based prescription drug abuse. ...
2016 Ex.C.E.L. Award winners announced at Homecoming game
LAWRENCE — Two University of Kansas seniors received the 26th annual Excellence in Community, Education and Leadership Awards during halftime of the KU-Oklahoma State Homecoming football game Oct. 22 in Memorial Stadium. ...
Student wins national sportswriting award for work on 'mother of KU Athletics'
LAWRENCE — Scott Chasen, a senior from Olathe, will travel next week to Los Angeles to accept the prestigious 2016 Jim Murray Memorial Foundation scholarship, a national award for excellence in sports writing at the college level. ...
KU to honor 78 high school seniors from five East Central Kansas counties
LAWRENCE — Students from 15 Kansas high schools will be honored Monday, Oct. 24, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
Rex Buchanan receives service award
LAWRENCE — Rex Buchanan, outgoing interim director of the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas, was honored by one of the world’s largest geological organizations for his decades of accomplishments as a leader and communicator on issues related to geology and the earth’s natural resources. ...
Nontraditional conference will explore activist media in the Americas
LAWRENCE — Supported by an Interdisciplinary Starter Grant from The Commons, the University of Kansas will host “Trans/forming Activist Media in the Americas” next week. ...
Speaker for Jana Mackey Distinguished Lecture Series will discuss violence against LGBTQ communities
LAWRENCE — The ninth annual Jana Mackey Distinguished Lecture Series returns at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, with Connie Burk in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union. The lecture, “Queering Engagement: A Kansas Activist Comes Home,” is a conversation about LGBTQ communities, anti-violence activism and building power to make change. ...
Study finds earliest evidence in fossil record for right-handedness
LAWRENCE — Perhaps the bias against left-handers dates back much further than we thought. ...
Engineering alumnus to deliver lecture on ethics in international infrastructure
LAWRENCE — Around the world it is often difficult to build big projects — bridges, highways and more — without greasing a few palms. But members of the civil engineering profession should resist participating in such petty corruption, says one prominent University of Kansas School of Engineering alumnus. ...
KU lecture to imagine ‘journey out of the racial divide’
LAWRENCE — Overcoming racism, xenophobia and other identity-based conflicts requires a deeper understanding of the nature of our humanity, suggests a psychology scholar set to speak this month at the University of Kansas. ...
Grant set to improve community participation by people with disabilities
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Research and Training Center on Independent Living (RTC/IL) has been awarded a five-year, $4.375 million grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research to promote community participation for adults with physical disabilities. The project is a collaboration with the University...
Media executive Steve Forbes to deliver 2016 Vickers Memorial Lecture
LAWRENCE — Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media, will present “An Evening of Insights” at 7 p.m. Nov. 10 at Capitol Federal Hall. ...
Science, Spirits and Skeletons: Museum invites the public to Party in the Panorama 2016
LAWRENCE – The public is invited to pet a hissing cockroach, see how body fluids are illuminated by black light, put together a human skeleton and see some spooky reptile specimens at the KU Natural History Museum’s Party in the Panorama, 7 p.m. Oct. 29. ...
Research shows US tendency to hide war against democracies, secretly detain their citizens
LAWRENCE — A study appearing this week from researchers based at the University of Kansas suggests the United States tends to carry out secret military operations against other democratic countries of the world — but to conduct open war against non-democracies. ...
Researchers land CDC grant to analyze state child neglect policies
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas researchers have received a grant to determine how economic and social safety net policies affect child neglect across the United States and create a tool policy makers and practitioners can use to predict how proposed prevention strategies can address child abuse and neglect. ...
Coaching workshop will focus on student-athlete success
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas School of Education’s Department of Health, Sport, and Exercise Sciences has partnered with Greenbush to host the 2016 Fall Coaches Workshop for the region’s PK-12 coaches and educators. ...
Winter classes coming to the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
LAWRENCE – University of Kansas students have a new opportunity to continue their learning and stay on track to graduation with the first-ever winter session offered by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. ...