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University community mourns death of chemistry professor Craig Lunte
The University of Kansas community is grieving the loss of a longtime professor and leader in the Department of Chemistry. Craig Lunte, 57, died April 13 at his home in Lawrence. ...
Professors to share research on at-risk students, inclusion at prominent conference
Faculty members from the University of Kansas School of Education are among the experts presenting research at the annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference April 16-20 in Chicago. Among the most prestigious gatherings of higher education researchers in the world, the 2015 AERA conference theme is Toward Justice: Culture,...
University Dance Company presents new work for spring concert
Focusing on themes of exploration, movement and relationships, the University Dance Company spring concert will showcase six works choreographed by a guest artist, a student and KU faculty members. The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. April 23-24 at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. ...
Replant Mount Oread will return flowering crabapples to Daisy Hill
Alumni of the Daisy Hill residence halls at the University of Kansas may recall crabapple trees blooming each spring behind Hashinger and Lewis halls. But today, very few trees remain along that stretch of Irving Hill Road. ...
School of Music announces fundraising drive to honor renowned professor
After 41 years of directing bands and teaching music at the University of Kansas School of Music, world-renowned musician and composer James Barnes will retire this spring. To honor him, the school has launched a campaign to raise $250,000 for KU band student scholarships and to name a rehearsal room...
IT Faculty Fellow will help guide technology at KU
KU Information Technology at the University of Kansas has announced the selection of Greg Thomas, professor of design in the School of Architecture, Design & Planning and director of the Center for Design Research, as the first KU IT Faculty Fellow. ...
Junior Ashlie Koehn named KU's 18th Truman Scholar
Ashlie Koehn, a University of Kansas junior from Burns studying in Kyrgyzstan, interrupted helping her host family prepare dinner to make a Skype call on Monday evening. To her surprise, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little was on the other end of the call letting Koehn know she had been named a 2015...
School of Business names 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients
The University of Kansas School of Business is set to honor its 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients, Tim Barton, entrepreneur and founder of Freightquote.com, and Roshann Parris, president and CEO of Parris Communications. ...
Most partisans treat politics like sports rivalries, study shows
Study will parse evolutionary shift between life in water and on land
Occasionally, a crux of evolutionary success is summed up with the phrase “only the strong survive.” But that’s not right exactly. Really, it’s a knack for rolling with changes that characterizes most thriving organisms. ...
University Theatre's Mozart opera to feature KU Symphony Orchestra
Recounting a single day of madness, “The Marriage of Figaro” follows the misadventures of two palace servants on their wedding day, who find themselves thwarted at every turn by the philandering count. The University of Kansas School of Music and University Theatre partner on this comedic opera featuring the KU...
Study examines why people stop donating to college athletics
As lawmakers and others debate whether and how college athletes should be paid and coaches’ salaries and facilities arms races come into focus, fundraising is drawing renewed interest. Yet no one seems to be considering one source of athletic funding: Donors who no longer make contributions. ...
Event to celebrate work of Nobel Prize-winning poet
An event featuring poetry, dance and live music will celebrate the life and work of Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Soyinka, Nigerian playwright and poet. “African Literature in Rhythmic Cadence: Wole Soyinka @ 80” will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, in the Hawks Nest at the Kansas Union. ...
Dole Institute announces WWII letters online exhibition
2015 marks 70 years since Bob Dole’s injuries on a battlefield in Italy and the end of World War II as well as a decade since the release of the former senator’s 2005 memoir, “One Soldier’s Story.” The Robert J. Dole Archive & Special Collections, part of the Dole Institute...
Center hosts training to improve quality of interpreted home visits
The Center for Public Partnerships & Research (CPPR) at the University of Kansas recently hosted a daylong training workshop for home visitors and the interpreters who assist them in serving families who speak a language other than English. The workshop was a collaborative effort between CPPR’s Interpreter Training program and...
KU honors 20 women for achievements, service, careers
inducted six women into the KU Women’s Hall of Fame as well as presented honors to a number of outstanding students, faculty and staff at KU. ...
New professorship honors longtime pharmaceutical researcher
In his second-floor corner office in Simons Biosciences Research Laboratories at the University of Kansas, Professor Ron Borchardt gestures to file cabinets lining a wall. The drawers hold more than 500 scientific research papers he authored or co-authored during his 44 years of teaching biochemistry, medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry...
Researchers from across North America visit campus for symposium honoring biology professor
of water resources is a key KU initiative. Smith’s area of expertise is phytoplankton ecology, and he has worked for more than three decades on the relationship between nutrient loading and the occurrence of nuisance bloom-forming blue-green algae in lakes and estuaries worldwide. He also is actively involved in KU’s...
KU, Haskell students to present research projects at 15th annual symposium
Research relating to cancer, genetics, medicinal plants, and social relationships will be among student research presented at the 15th annual University of Kansas-Haskell Indian Nations University Undergraduate Research Symposium. ...
Media advisory: Racial disparities apparent in autism identification, researcher says
Jason Travers, assistant professor of special education at the University of Kansas, is available to speak with media about Autism Awareness Month, autism and research taking place on the topic. April is Autism Awareness Month. ...
See/Saw Film Festival to feature works representing underserved children
The University of Kansas will present the See/Saw Film Festival later this month, featuring works exhibiting, disrupting and renegotiating constructions of children and young people from historically underserved and marginalized backgrounds. ...
MyWorldAbroad resource available
The University Career Center, Office of Study Abroad, Business Career Services Center and Engineering Career Center have purchased MyWorldAbroad, an internationally focused career resource. Key highlights:...
Design students win awards at national show
Over the past two months University of Kansas Department of Design students have received numerous honors at two different events, the National Student Show in Dallas and the Creative Summit in San Marcos, Texas. ...
Mini College offers continued learning opportunities
The old adage “you learn something new every day” seems to take a vacation during the long, lazy days of summer. But it doesn’t have to. For the past six years, the University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has offered adults a unique option for summer vacation. ...
KU to honor health care pioneer
When HIV first began to appear in the Kansas City area, treatment options were scarce. Few physicians were familiar with the virus, and many lacked resources to care for patients. With nowhere to refer her patients, a University of Kansas alumna took on the challenge herself. ...
Provost responds to FASTR refiling
The Fair Access to Science and Technology (FASTR) Act of 2015 was refiled last month in both the Senate and the House of Representatives for the 114th Congress with continued bipartisan support. The University of Kansas has played a pioneering role in open access for over a decade, supporting both...
Mathematics professor selected as SIAM Fellow
Tyrone Duncan, professor of mathematics and courtesy professor of electrical engineering and computer science, was selected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The award honors SIAM members who have made outstanding contributions to the fields served by the organization. This year 31 members were...
Law school to host nation’s leading annual patent scholarship conference
include Colleen Chien, Santa Clara law professor and former senior adviser to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Eric von Hippel, economist and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management; and A. Christal Sheppard, director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office satellite branch in Detroit. ...
Molecules that block previously ‘undruggable’ protein tied to cancer’s onset
A team of scientists at the University of Kansas has pinpointed six chemical compounds that thwart HuR, an ‘oncoprotein’ that binds to RNA and promotes tumor growth. ...
Study shows journalism burnout affecting women more than men
The field of journalism has changed greatly over the last decade, and those changes are taking a particularly hard toll on women working in newsrooms, new research from a University of Kansas professor shows. Female journalists are experiencing more job burnout and more intend to leave the field or are...