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Candidates for IOA director will present in early January
LAWRENCE — Three candidates for the position of director of Institutional Opportunity and Access will be on the University of Kansas campus for interviews and presentations in coming weeks. ...
Kansas Geological Survey to measure groundwater levels in western Kansas
LAWRENCE — A crew from the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas, will be in western Kansas in early January to measure groundwater levels in hundreds of wells. The work is part of an annual program with the Kansas Department of Agriculture’s Division of Water Resources (KDA-DWR)...
Porras chosen to lead Office of Multicultural Affairs
LAWRENCE — An individual with 10 years of experience of growing responsibility at the University of Kansas will be the next director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs. ...
Diabetes self-management, support improve health outcomes in underserved communities
LAWRENCE — Even in communities with barriers to health care, exercise opportunities and healthy food, residents with diabetes saw improved health outcomes when they participated in programs that took a coordinated care approach to diabetes self-management. ...
Community coming together to restore the Prairie Acre
LAWRENCE — The Prairie Acre at the University of Kansas is the last remaining piece of native prairie on the Lawrence campus. Tucked into the hillside behind Blake and Twente halls, this one-third-acre parcel was designated in 1932 as a landscape to remain undeveloped and protected by the university. For...
Prominent KU researchers named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
LAWRENCE — Two prominent KU researchers — each with a track record of turning ideas into inventions and new companies – have been elected Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). ...
KU community mourns death of Professor Patricia Howard
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas and KU Medical Center communities are mourning the death of Professor Patricia Howard, who died Dec. 17. She was 64. ...
KU research expenditures stable in 2015; national ranking unchanged
LAWRENCE — Research at the University of Kansas affects people, communities and whole industries through discovery and innovation. Whether it involves human health, energy and the environment, information technology, or the humanities and social sciences, the research efforts of faculty and staff make a difference in Kansas and elsewhere. ...
Grant enables research into the neurocognitive foundations of human creativity
LAWRENCE — From the global climate crisis to the flood of refugees emanating from Syria, the world needs creative solutions to a host of seemingly intractable problems. Cognitive neuroscientists are searching for ways to boost people’s imagination, partly in hopes of tapping the potential of the human mind to tackle...
Professor studies how First Amendment applies to private companies that regulate online speech
LAWRENCE — In a society in which our public speech increasingly takes place online via private companies like Facebook and Twitter, the gold standard of protecting speech — the First Amendment — may or may not apply. A University of Kansas professor has authored a study exploring whether the First...
Media advisory: Banking expert available to comment on Fed rate hike
LAWRENCE – On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. ...
Kansas African Studies Center receives NEH grant
LAWRENCE — The Kansas African Studies Center at the University of Kansas has received $140,000 in funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to launch public discussions, community programming and the creation of educational resources in local communities to discuss the challenges and opportunities surrounding recent demographic changes in...
Program to lead creative kids to innovative careers proves successful
LAWRENCE — Every teacher has seen them in the classroom: young people who are highly creative, yet struggle in some areas of their schoolwork or in disciplinary matters. Researchers at the University of Kansas have developed a program, now in its 10th year, that helps identify creatively gifted students and...
Media advisory: KU scholar shares the best, don't-miss 'Star Wars' fan edits
LAWRENCE – Love him or hate him, Jar Jar Binks and his bumbling antics in “Star Wars Episode I: the Phantom Menace” brought fan editing into the mainstream. ...
KU announces November employees of the month
Kaci HaneyTitle: Accountant, Campus Administration and Operations Shared Service Center...
National Endowment for the Arts awards $50K for Spencer exhibition
LAWRENCE — The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) on Dec. 8 announced awards totaling more than $27.6 million, including an Art Works award of $50,000 to the Spencer Museum of Art for the upcoming exhibition “Temporal Turn: Art and Speculation in Contemporary Asia.” Opening in fall 2016, Temporal Turn...
KU Alumni Association sets dates for Homecoming 2016
LAWRENCE —The University of Kansas will celebrate Homecoming Oct. 16-22, 2016, culminating in the KU football game against Oklahoma State University Oct. 22 in Memorial Stadium. ...
Journalism school launching online master's degree in digital content strategy
LAWRENCE — The William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications is launching its first online master’s program, and students will be able to earn certificates in data interpretation and social media strategy. ...
School of Education extends teach abroad opportunities for students
LAWRENCE — In an effort to support the internationalization of the teaching profession, the University of Kansas School of Education has extended its study and teach abroad opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate education students by partnering again with the University of Missouri College of Education. The continuing program provides...
Electrical engineering professional association honors professor, dean
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas Electrical Engineering Professor Shannon Blunt and School of Engineering Dean Michael Branicky were recently named Fellows by the prestigious professional association the Institute of Electrical Electronics and Engineers (IEEE). ...
Professor's sci-fi stories translated for international audience
LAWRENCE — An award-winning science fiction writer and University of Kansas professor is seeing her short-story work translated into Japanese, German and now Turkish. ...
Scientist named Geological Society of America Fellow
LAWRENCE — Susan Stover, geologist and outreach manager at the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas, has been named a Fellow of one of the world's largest geological societies. ...
Federal relations director to lead advocacy coalition of university research institutions
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A University of Kansas staff member will head an effort by the nation's leading research universities to encourage higher levels of federal funding for the nation's science research agencies. ...
Chemist and biomedical engineer named Foundation Distinguished Professor
LAWRENCE — A catalyst who is driving advances in high-tech diagnostics for cancer, stroke and infectious diseases will join the University of Kansas as a Foundation Distinguished Professor. ...
Catalog brings later work of artist Albert Bloch into public view
LAWRENCE – Artist Albert Bloch is best known for being the lone American to show in the first Blue Rider exhibition, which in 1911 helped lay the foundation for modern art. But a University of Kansas art history professor argues Bloch’s best work didn’t come until decades later when he...
Researchers will study Affordable Care Act's effects on people with disabilities
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas researchers are part of a $2.5 million grant project to examine the Affordable Care Act and its effects on the United States’ largest minority population: individuals with disabilities. ...