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Memorial service for Chancellor Hemenway to be streamed online
LAWRENCE — A memorial service for former University of Kansas Chancellor Robert Hemenway, who passed away July 31, is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 9, at the Dole Institute of Politics. The service will be streamed online. ...
Edwards Campus launches 4 certificate programs
OVERLAND PARK – The University of Kansas Edwards Campus will launch four certificate programs this fall to complement the current programs in business, global and international studies, and environmental assessment. The Edwards Campus is offering these programs to address businesses’ trending interests in certificates and the benefits they offer. ...
Dean publishes book on architectural legacy of Charles Vest, MIT president
LAWRENCE — The publisher Rowland & Littlefield has released "Leading With Aesthetics: The Transformational Leadership of Charles M. Vest at MIT" by Mahesh Daas, dean of the School of Architecture, Design & Planning. ...
Online tool enables public to track 'tip-of-the tongue' states, speech errors
LAWRENCE — We’ve all been there. Occasionally, in the midst of a conversation, our mind flashes blank, and it’s impossible to conjure the word for a thing, place or person. We’ll gesture with our hands and feel like we’re on the verge of remembering. But the word won’t come. ...
City to smoke-test sewer lines around campus Aug. 5-14
LAWRENCE — There might be patches of smoke around the University of Kansas campus during the next nine days, but there’s no need to worry. ...
Media advisory: Education experts available for back-to-school news
LAWRENCE — As students begin returning to classrooms across the country this month, teachers will turn their attention to lesson plans and tests while parents, administrators and community members hope for a successful school year. Researchers at the University of Kansas can speak with media about the latest research in...
Media advisory: Debate expert available to discuss presidential primary debates
LAWRENCE – A University of Kansas communication studies professor can discuss trends in presidential primary debates and provide commentary on how candidates perform. ...
Continuing Education offers new training programs to meet KC workforce needs
OVERLAND PARK — KU Professional & Continuing Education (KUPCE) is offering a pair of August professional training programs at the Edwards Campus in Overland Park. The programs will address needs emphasized during recent collaborations between university and industry leaders. ...
Audio-Reader hosting music, equipment donation drive in Aug. 10 in Topeka
LAWRENCE — The Kansas Audio-Reader Network will host a donation drive for its annual benefit sale from 1 to 5:30 p.m. Aug. 10 at the Dillons at Fairlawn Plaza in Topeka. Folks can bring their donations of gently used audio equipment, vinyl records (especially rock records), CDs, books on CDs...
Chemical biology training program secures funding through 2020
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas graduate training program that supports national efforts to cross-train chemists and biologists at the intersection of their disciplines has received federal funding to continue its mission for five more years. ...
KU announces student Fulbright winners
LAWRENCE — Seven University of Kansas students have been selected for prestigious Fulbright awards for research, study or teaching English abroad for 2015-16. ...
Researchers develop tool to help child welfare providers analyze data
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas researchers have developed a web-based tool that will help child welfare agencies across the country meet periodic federal case level reviews and collect other qualitative data that will help improve services to children and families. ...
Professor can discuss Fed report recommending millennials put off home ownership by 10 years
LAWRENCE — Researchers at the St. Louis Federal Reserve issued a report this week suggesting that millennials might be better off postponing home ownership by 10 years or more. The advice is counter to traditional wisdom that buying a home is a sound financial move for young people to build...
Kansas Water Congress set for Aug. 6-7
LAWRENCE—Water users from across the state will focus on the management and future of the state’s water resources at the summer meeting of the Kansas Water Congress, which will be Aug. 6-7 at the University of Kansas. ...
Startup receives $270,000 from NSF, Google, Digital Sandbox
KANSAS CITY, KANSAS — PatientsVoices, a startup company located in the Bioscience & Technology Business Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center, started with a question: How can we improve the patient experience in hospitals across the nation? ...
New research will boost grasp of North American carbon cycle
LAWRENCE — For centuries, people have transformed and splintered landscapes and ecosystems in North America. This radical altering of nature makes it tough for scientists to analyze the continent’s life-sustaining carbon cycle — the biological, geological and chemical routes the element carbon takes to shift among earth, water and atmosphere. ...
Kansas Initiative for Developmental Ongoing Screening project offers resources for systems change
LAWRENCE — Kansas early childhood advocates and the communities they serve have a new website and online toolkit to help improve the lives of the state’s youngest residents. The Kansas Initiative for Developmental Ongoing Screening (KIDOS) provides best-practice training and coordinates the expansion of developmental and social-emotional screenings of children...
Media advisory: August marks 70th anniversary of atomic bombings; experts available to comment
LAWRENCE – August marks the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an event that marked the end of World War II and is the only use of nuclear weapons in history. The University of Kansas has experts who can speak to the bombings and are experts...
CEOP secures $1.99M for College Assistance Migrant Program
LAWRENCE — The children of migrant workers face formidable obstacles to educational success and, not surprisingly, as a group have one of the highest dropout rates in the nation. Poverty, low wages, deplorable and unsafe living conditions, interrupted schooling, lack of social mobility and paucity of educational opportunities plague these...
Kelly Reynolds named KU director of state relations
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has named Kelly Reynolds, who earned her bachelor’s degree from KU in 2005, to serve as the university’s new director of state relations. ...
Compulsory schooling research could point to success of mandatory community college plan
LAWRENCE — Providing two years of free community college to qualifying students is expected to be a hot topic during the 2016 presidential campaign. ...
Alumni Association announces resignation of President Kevin Corbett
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Alumni Association (KUAA) announced today the resignation of association President Kevin Corbett, effective July 31. Corbett, who has led the KU Alumni Association since 2004, has accepted an executive vice president position with Affiliated Builders Group (ABG), headquartered in Edmond, Oklahoma. ...
KU to host public forum on Central District redevelopment
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas invites Lawrence residents to learn about redevelopment plans for KU’s Central District at a public forum from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, July 29, in the Schwegler Elementary School gym. ...
Math key factor in career fields where women are underrepresented
LAWRENCE – Math – not college faculty’s belief that female students lack brilliance – points to why fewer women are in STEM fields, research at the University of Kansas shows. ...
Time for revolution in higher education funding has come, professors say
LAWRENCE — Two University of Kansas professors walk the halls of the same university, teach many of the same students and collaborate on research, yet they traversed different paths to get there, with results that diverge even today. ...