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Report: Technology, collaboration can personalize education for American students
LAWRENCE — Harnessing technology to personalize education for all students has the potential to transform education and prepare students to live and work in a global society. In 2014, more than 100 experts from the fields of education, research, academics and technology, as well as policy makers, gathered to discuss...
KU earns reaccreditation from Higher Learning Commission
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has been reaccredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association. ...
University honors staff retirees
LAWRENCE — At a luncheon May 21, the University of Kansas honored university support staff who have retired since Oct. 1, 2013, and unclassified professional staff who have retired since July 1, 2014. They are listed below by name, department and years of service:...
Media advisory: Report that mental illness rates in children dropping is good, but more work needed
LAWRENCE — A recent New England Journal of Medicine study reported that the rate of severe mental illness in children and adolescents has dropped significantly over the past generation. The news contradicts public perception and widely held beliefs that diagnoses were on the rise. ...
Political science department announces awards, scholarships
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Political Science Department honored its top students at its Recognition Ceremony, with awards and induction into Pi Sigma Alpha last month at the Adams Alumni Center. ...
Law school honors top graduates for scholarship, leadership, service
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas School of Law honored Class of 2015 graduates at a hooding ceremony May 16. During the ceremony, nine students received awards for distinguishing themselves in scholarship, leadership and service to the law school and the community. ...
KU stages first Kansas DNA Day with statewide high schools
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas celebrated its first official Kansas DNA Day last month. Lynn Villafuerte and Sonia Hall, with support from the Office of Diversity in Science Training, organized the events in collaboration with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The design and implementation of this institutional level...
Study: Self-styled opinion leaders share more news, useful or not
LAWRENCE — Journalism has always depended on people sharing news, whether by word of mouth or clipping an article out of the paper. Today, all it takes is the click of a button to pass news along. A new study by a University of Kansas professor explored the effect that...
'Draconian border policies' embolden human trafficking networks, expert says
LAWRENCE — European Union and southeast Asian countries are struggling to develop policies on how to deal with large numbers of migrants fleeing unstable states like Syria, Libya, Niger, Bangladesh and Myanmar. ...
Summer campus construction projects begin
LAWRENCE — Several campus construction projects are now underway, resulting in road closures and detours that will affect traffic and pedestrian routes for the coming weeks and months. ...
Ford Motor Co. announces scholarship winner
LAWRENCE — Ford Motor Company has announced that industrial design student Alexander Guinn, Overland Park, is one of five U.S. recipients of its inaugural Alan Mulally Leadership in Engineering Scholarship Awards. ...
Researchers help people with disabilities raise employment expectations
LAWRENCE — After completing schoolwork, individuals with disabilities may be directed to a life of sheltered employment or a group home setting. University of Kansas researchers have been battling that type of guidance by proving that it is possible for individuals with disabilities to hold meaningful employment and live independently. ...
Porras named interim director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs
LAWRENCE — Longtime University of Kansas staff member Precious Porras has been named interim director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs. ...
Outlaw biker gangs operate much like extremist groups, researcher says
LAWRENCE — After Sunday's deadly biker brawl in Waco, Texas, the Justice Department has sought to raise public awareness of the prevalence of outlaw biker gangs often involved in criminal activity. ...
Scholars challenge longtime critics in book that re-examines Andrew Wyeth’s art
LAWRENCE – Like his iconic painting “Christina’s World,” Andrew Wyeth’s legacy is one of emotional depth and complexity, according to the first academic book to be published on the artist. ...
Education professor awarded research fellowship in humanities
LAWRENCE – The American Council of Learned Societies has awarded John Rury, professor of educational leadership & policy studies and courtesy professor of history, the Collaborative Research Fellowship for humanities research to be undertaken in academic year 2015-16. The ACLS, one of the premier humanities-focused granting agencies, is a private,...
College presents faculty with awards for research, teaching, mentoring
LAWRENCE – Faculty contributions in research, teaching and mentoring were recognized recently with a series of awards from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Kansas. The prizes acknowledge outstanding professors for commitment to advising and teaching to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as innovation...
Media advisory: Nationally recognized expert can discuss White House pollinator plan
LAWRENCE — Today, a task force appointed by President Obama unveiled a national strategy to protect honeybees, monarch butterflies and other pollinators. Under supervision of the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Agriculture, the strategy aims to reduce honeybee colony loss, boost monarch butterfly populations to safeguard their yearly migration,...
KU events will celebrate cicada emergence
LAWRENCE — Annual cicadas are as much a part of summer in Kansas as the unrelenting heat of August, but this month – and once every 17 years – a different cicada song pulses across eastern Kansas. ...
KU awarded new FAA Center of Excellence designation
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas is among three universities across the state that are members of the new Federal Aviation Administration Center of Excellence for Unmanned Aircraft Systems, or UAS, which was awarded by the U.S. Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C. ...
National education initiative becomes affiliated research center
LAWRENCE — The Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation Center has become the Life Span Institute’s 14th affiliated center. ...
Design Futures Student Leadership Forum coming to KU
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas School of Architecture, Design & Planning will host the 2015 Design Futures Public Interest Design (PID) Student Leadership Forum from May 29 to June 2. ...
Students to study African languages with FLAS fellowships
LAWRENCE — The Kansas African Studies Center (KASC) has awarded Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships to 19 students for the study of five African languages this summer and during the 2015-16 academic year. ...
KU honors employees, team of the year
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas recognized its Employees of the Year and presented the 2014-2015 Team Award earlier this month in the Kansas Union. Chancellor Bernadette Gray Little and Jeffrey S. Vitter, provost and executive vice chancellor, were present at the ceremony to honor employees. ...
New leader announced for community health research group
LAWRENCE — Vincent Francisco has been selected to oversee the leadership team at the KU Work Group for Community Health and Development, one of 14 affiliated research centers of the University of Kansas Life Span Institute. ...
Education professor, alumna receive award for 'smart girls' book
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas professor and alumna have received a Silver Medal for Education award for a book on young women's giftedness, self-actualization and barriers to achievement. ...
Outstanding humanities graduate students receive Hall Center research awards, internships
LAWRENCE – The Hall Center for the Humanities has recognized several outstanding humanities graduate students with summer research awards and internships. These summer funding opportunities are part of the center’s significant level of support for graduate research. ...
Book details how Native American cotton selection led to the Industrial Revolution
LAWRENCE — Most historians credit English inventors with developing the mechanization of cotton spinning, which became a driving factor in the Industrial Revolution and introduction of the factory system as a substitute for hand labor. ...