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12 students honored with 2016 University Awards
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has honored 12 students with University Awards for 2016. These awards recognize each student for their accomplishments in academics, leadership and community engagement while attending KU. ...
Book explores how disability, race intersect in pushing kids to prison
LAWRENCE — Disability and race weigh heavily on the school experience of millions of young people, yet disability studies and critical race theory rarely look at how the two intersect. A University of Kansas professor has co-edited a book examining how disability and race together affect the education system, from...
Media advisory: Professor can discuss Stonewall Inn as first possible gay rights monument
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas researcher who has collaborated with the National Park Service on potential historical landmarks of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer movement is available to discuss the possibility that New York's Stonewall Inn could become a national monument. ...
Scholarships to benefit KU design, engineering students
LAWRENCE — An estate gift of nearly $430,000 from the late University of Kansas alumna Patricia A. Rozema Taylor has established two new scholarships at KU, one for design students in the School of Architecture, Design & Planning, and one for students in the School of Engineering. ...
KU celebrating National Bike Month
LAWRENCE — The month of May is recognized as National Bike Month, and since its inception in 2012, the KU Bicycle Advisory Committee has taken the opportunity to showcase campus bike resources and highlight campus and citywide efforts to improve bike safety, infrastructure and accessibility. ...
DNA Day 2016 expands high school science classroom outreach in Kansas
LAWRENCE — Students at 20 public and private schools in Kansas learned about current biomedical science research last month from someone other than their regular classroom teachers. ...
Professor honored for helping establish field of anthropological genetics
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas professor widely known for his contributions to the field of anthropological genetics has received the highest award from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. ...
School of Business honors 3 as distinguished alumni
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas School of Business has honored three of its graduates with the 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award: Wayne Boeckman, Doug Miller and Jim Schwartz. ...
KU recognizes Employees of the Year
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas recognized its Employees of the Year and presented the 2015-2016 Team Award on May 4 in the Kansas Union. Chancellor Bernadette Gray Little and Sara Rosen, interim provost and executive vice chancellor, were present at the ceremony to honor employees with five, 10, 15,...
KU announces Student Veteran Center director
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has named a program manager for its new Student Veteran Center. ...
Biospecimen Blood Drive to benefit KU Cancer Center research
FAIRWAY— Kansas City area residents can help advance cancer research by participating in the third annual Biospecimen Blood Drive from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, May 13, at the University of Kansas Clinical Research Center, 4350 Shawnee Mission Parkway. ...
KU Student Housing selects Aramis Watson as associate director for residence life
LAWRENCE — Aramis Watson has been selected as University of Kansas Student Housing’s associate director for residence life. She began her new position April 25. Watson earned her bachelor’s degree from KU and master’s degree from Arizona State University. Her professional background includes serving as assistant director at The Ohio...
Humanities professors receive NEH funding
LAWRENCE — Two humanities faculty members, working in conjunction with the Hall Center Grant Development Office, received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Ani Kokobobo, assistant professor of Slavic languages and literatures, was awarded an Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grant for $20,000 for “NEH Enduring Questions Course on...
Senior earns NIH Oxford Cambridge Scholarship
LAWRENCE — Jessica van Loben Sels’ latest scholarship will allow the University of Kansas senior to continue her research at the University of Cambridge and at the National Institutes of Health, studying serious, disease-causing viruses. ...
University community remembers paleobotany leader Thomas N. Taylor
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas community is mourning the death of professor and curator Thomas N. Taylor. He died April 28 at his home in Lawrence. He was 78. ...
Six new fossil species form 'snapshot' of Asian primates stressed by ancient climate change
LAWRENCE — In a study to be published this week in the journal Science, researchers describe unearthing a “mother lode” of a half-dozen fossil primate species in southern China. ...
Stop Day tour will offer perspective on seven liberal arts
LAWRENCE — Retired University of Kansas professor Ted Johnson will give his annual Stop Day walking tour of the architecture and sculptures on the Lawrence campus on Friday, May 6. ...
KU will honor faculty, academic staff retirees
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Legendary faculty honored with KU Engineering’s highest award
LAWRENCE — Distinguished University of Kansas School of Engineering Professors Emeriti Ross McKinney and Jan Roskam are the 2016 winners of the Distinguished Engineering Service Award. McKinney served as the director of KU’s Environmental Engineering Graduate program from 1960 until his retirement in 1993. Roskam’s career at KU spanned five...
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KU promotes innovation with new Proof of Concept Fund Awards
LAWRENCE — Demonstrating that a laboratory concept will work in practice is one key to moving a research discovery into the marketplace. The University of Kansas supports discovery and innovation in multiple ways, including the granting of Proof of Concept (POC) Fund awards for inventions that are near the commercialization...
Study: For Asian-Americans, interracial marriage isn't the measure of assimilation it once was
LAWRENCE — Interracial marriage is not the single best way to measure levels of assimilation for immigrants and their descendants, based on a University of Kansas researcher's new study on Asian-American interethnic marriages. ...
Nanjing Tech signs memorandum of understanding with SADP
LAWRENCE — During the spring semester of 2015, Assistant Professor of Architecture Hui Cai of the Department of Architecture’s Health and Wellness program organized a joint design studio with the School of Architecture at Nanjing Tech, China. That led to an agreement that paves the way for future collaboration. ...