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HSES Department to host the 2015 Naismith Lecture Series event
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Department of Health, Sport, and Exercise Sciences welcomes author and educator Milton Katz as keynote speaker at the annual James Naismith Lecture Series. ...
Media Advisory: Professor predicts musical twist in 'The Hunger Games'
LAWRENCE – Music theorists aren’t typically in the forecasting business, but more than a year ago a University of Kansas professor predicted that “The Hunger Games” franchise would invert a musical gesture to reflect a plot twist in the final movies. ...
Prominent magazine honors internal auditor
LAWRENCE — Cate Neeley, assistant director and internal audit manager at the University of Kansas, has been named a 2015 Emerging Leader by Internal Auditor magazine. She shares the honor with 14 other practitioners who are taking innovative approaches to changing how the business world views the profession. ...
English department launching first Writers' Faire
LAWRENCE — The First and Second Year English program at the University of Kansas has announced a showcase of student writing projects, highlighting participants' talents, imagination and achievement. ...
Expert available to discuss Paris climate talks with reporters
LAWRENCE — The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP21, currently is meeting in Paris until Dec. 11. ...
Design students create innovative projects for city transportation
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas, city of Lawrence and MV Transportation have announced the 015-16 recipients of the MV Transportation Scholarship, designed to support experiential learning opportunities for current KU students. ...
'Bread, Wine, Chocolate' author will give talk on food, sustainability
LAWRENCE — Stroll through an American supermarket, and you’re bound to think you see endless diversity in products from avocados to ziti. But look closer, argues writer Simran Sethi, and you will learn that 95 percent of the world’s calories come from 30 species, and the vast majority of foods...
Specter of disaster provides important backdrop to Paris climate negotiations, researcher says
LAWRENCE — As the United Nations climate talks in Paris enter their third day, a University of Kansas researcher on environmental rhetoric and climate politics is available to discuss the developments. ...
Mortar Board announces Outstanding Educator Awards
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas chapter of Mortar Board, a national honor society for college seniors, recently selected five faculty members to receive Outstanding Educator Awards. The recipients were announced at the Dec. 1 men's basketball game against Loyola University in Allen Fieldhouse. ...
Final OMA director candidate to present Dec. 4
LAWRENCE – The last of three finalists for director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at the University of Kansas will make a public presentation Friday, Dec. 4. ...
Gift from Chicago couple creates new School of Business center
LAWRENCE — Roger and Julie Davis, of Chicago, have made a combined outright and planned gift commitment of $7.2 million to enable the University of Kansas School of Business to create a Center for Figure Sense. The aim of the new center is to teach students how to use complex...
KU Mock Trial Team to host Jayhawk Invitational tournament in Lawrence
LAWRENCE — Teams from across the Midwest will gather in Lawrence this weekend for the Jayhawk Invitational Mock Trial Tournament. Students from 17 schools will compete Saturday, Dec. 5, and Sunday, Dec. 6, in simulated courtroom trials, pitting their analytic skills against the region’s top undergraduate advocates. ...
Distinguished professor to discuss peopling of the Great Plains
LAWRENCE — The earliest inhabitants of the Great Plains aren’t around to tell their narrative. But to the trained eye, clues left behind in the earth provide rich information of the earliest people’s existence and activities. Rolfe Mandel, distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas, will share evidence...
Second OMA director candidate to present Dec. 1
LAWRENCE — The second of three finalists for director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at the University of Kansas will make a public presentation on Tuesday, Dec. 1. ...
Factoring for cosmic radiation could help set a more accurate 'molecular clock'
LAWRENCE — Scientists long have used the “molecular clock” to establish when species may have branched from each other on the Tree of Life. ...
OMA director candidate to present Nov. 30
LAWRENCE — The first of three finalists for director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at the University of Kansas will make a public presentation Monday, Nov. 30. ...
Donnelly College hails TRIO Talent Search as partner of the year
KANSAS CITY, KANSAS – A University of Kansas-based program that helps middle- and high-school students in Kansas City, Kansas, prepare and plan for college has been recognized by Donnelly College as its 2015 Partner of the Year. ...
Filmmaker Kevin Willmott to participate in online chat about 'Chi-Raq'
LAWRENCE – More than 2,600 people have been shot in Chicago this year, a number that has grabbed national headlines. ...
KPR to host annual Big Band Christmas concert at Lawrence’s Liberty Hall (Opens in new window)
LAWRENCE – Get ready for a cool Yule when KPR presents a Big Band Christmas, the seventh-annual holiday concert, served up by the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra and special guest vocalists Kathleen Holeman and Ron Gutierrez. ...
New species of early anthropoid primate found amid Libyan strife
LAWRENCE — During upheaval in Libya in 2013, a window of opportunity opened for scientists from the University of Kansas to perform research at the Zallah Oasis, a promising site for unearthing fossils from the Oligocene period, roughly 30 million years ago. ...
Apple co-founder, spouse award scholarships during KU visit
LAWRENCE — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and his wife, Janet, awarded four scholarships today during their 2 p.m. presentation at the Lied Center. ...
Additional tickets available for Clinton lecture
LAWRENCE – The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas has made an additional 200 tickets available to the general public and students for the 2015 Dole Leadership Prize program with President Bill Clinton. ...
Military, KU announce new partnership to enhance learning, opportunities
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas and the 1st Infantry Division will enter into a formal Partnership Resolution, which supports exchanges and programs that stimulate academic, athletic and research partnerships, and envisions activities such as faculty and student exchanges, joint conferences, speaker series, seminars and curricular development. ...
KU to bring architecture internship, examinations into curricula
LAWRENCE — The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) has announced that the University of Kansas Department of Architecture has been accepted into its Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure Initiative (IPI). It is a pilot program that will enable students to complete requirements for architectural licensure while in school. ...
'Trigger debate' over Indonesian mud volcano sheds light on dynamics of disasters
LAWRENCE — In May 2006, an underground mud volcano erupted in the East Java province of Indonesia, displacing more than 40,000 people as boiling hot mud swept into their fields and villages. ...
Program to offer insights on applied humanities careers
LAWRENCE— Leaders from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, Union Station, KCPT, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, the Kansas Humanities Council, the Mid-America Arts Alliance and the Lawrence Public Library will discuss strategies that humanities graduate students can follow to put their...
'Reckless' a nontraditional holiday play with an edge
LAWRENCE—Dealing with questions of identity, loss, redemption and acceptance, “Reckless” follows its crazy characters in finding new perspectives on life and the world. The University Theatre at KU will open this dark holiday comedy next month. ...
Family drug courts with parenting programs yield better reunification rates, researchers say
LAWRENCE — Families who had children removed from the home due to parental substance abuse were more than twice as likely to be reunified when they took part in a family drug court that incorporated two innovative evidence-based parenting programs, when compared with those who took part in regular child...