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Texas company licenses KU diabetes treatment technology
The University of Kansas and Reata Pharmaceuticals of Irving, Texas, have completed a major licensing agreement for a portfolio of drug technologies invented by Brian Blagg, professor of medicinal chemistry, and Rick Dobrowsky, professor of pharmacology and toxicology. ...
KU senior travels to St. Louis as finalist for Rhodes scholarship
University of Kansas senior Leigh Loving, Mendota Heights, Minnesota, is traveling to St. Louis today as a finalist for the prestigious Rhodes scholarship. Loving’s invitation to the St. Louis region marks the fourth year in a row with at least one KU student selected as a Rhodes scholarship finalist. ...
New Global Scholars selected
Fifteen sophomores at the University of Kansas have been selected as Global Scholars. The program, coordinated by Dena Register, director of faculty programs for International Programs, recognizes and encourages undergraduate students who have an interest in global studies and a strong academic record. ...
Scholars available to discuss protests over 43 missing students in Mexico
Scholars at the University of Kansas are available to provide insight into the disappearance of 43 college students in Mexico and the outbreak of protests that have followed. ...
KU announces Kansas Certified Public Manager Program graduates for 2014
The University of Kansas Public Management Center has announced the 2014 graduates of the Kansas Certified Public Manager (CPM) program. The graduation ceremony will take place Friday, Nov. 21, in the House Chamber at the Capitol in Topeka. ...
Tribes can serve as laboratories in fight against climate change
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that states had the opportunity to serve as laboratories, testing new ideas and policies in the American federalist system. A University of Kansas law professor has authored a study arguing that American Tribal Governments are in a unique position to serve as laboratories for...
Disabilities leader to receive 2014 Dole Leadership Prize
The Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas has announced that it will honor John Kemp of The Viscardi Center with the 2014 Dole Leadership Prize. The prize will be awarded at an interview-style program to take place at the Dole Institute at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14. ...
Reception planned for former Applied English Center director
Longtime Applied English Center staff member and director Mark Algren has left the University of Kansas to continue his work boosting international education. ...
Architecture lecturer receives lifetime achievement award
Department of Architecture Lecturer Frank Zilm has been awarded the American College of Healthcare Architects’ Lifetime Achievement Award for 2014. The ACHA’s Hamilton Medal is the highest honor it can bestow. It is conferred by the organization’s Board of Regents in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting...
Media advisory: Experts can comment on allegations of social media misuse in political campaigns
University of Kansas faculty members are available to speak with media about reports questioning the possibility of violation of campaign laws through use of social media. On Monday, CNN and other media outlets reported that the Republican party and outside groups set up Twitter accounts in a way that could...
Visual art students wrap up commissioned public sculpture project
For the past four semesters, more than 50 visual art students, faculty and staff have been working on a commissioned work for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. The sculpture, “An Abounding Asset: A Diligent Reserve,” became a permanent display Nov. 15 as the Reserve celebrates its 100th anniversary. ...
Georgia O’Keeffe, other artists inspired by New Mexico subject of exhibition, book
Georgia O’Keeffe may be New Mexico’s iconic artist, but a new exhibition and book curated by a University of Kansas professor show that her works were not the first, or only art, to draw inspiration from the region. ...
Topeka Public Schools teams with KU researchers to secure $1.8M education award
As part of an initiative to enhance and strengthen programs that integrate the arts into elementary- and middle-school curricula, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement has granted a four-year, $1.8 million award to a collaborative project that teams Topeka Public Schools with two University of Kansas...
CERN scientists to participate in arts/sciences roundup
International scientists and artists, including representatives from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), will come together this week at the University of Kansas to discuss how their disciplines stimulate and inspire one another. The roundtable, Excavating the Universe: Physics Interacts with the Arts, will take place from 2:30 to...
Dole Institute to host Richard Norton Smith on new biography
The Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas will welcome back former Dole Institute director, historian and author Richard Norton Smith, who will discuss his new biography, “On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller.”...
KU, K-State field stations key sites in 30-year NSF project
equipped with environmental sensors are being installed this fall at KU, and K-State field sites are expected to be drawing provisional data by spring 2015. ...
Architecture alumnus and futurist to speak
One of Forbes magazine's Next-Gen Innovators for 2014, Jordan Brandt, will present “Teaching Our Machines to Design and Make Things” at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 21, at The Forum at Marvin Hall. ...
Study: Historically black colleges, universities support journalism accreditation
Historically black colleges and universities overwhelmingly support the idea of accreditation for their journalism and mass communication programs, even though meeting the standards can place significant financial and human strain upon them, a study from the University of Kansas School of Journalism shows. ...
KU to host Big 12 universities water workshop
Water use – and abuse – has emerged in recent years as a major challenge in Kansas, affecting all aspects of life in the state. It is a focus for multidisciplinary research at the University of Kansas and is the subject of a statewide policy initiative, the 50-Year Vision for...
Solar energy company seeks job applicants
Oakland-based Sungevity Inc. is coming to Kansas City and is looking for qualified candidates interested in green careers to fill positions at the company’s new sales and service center, slated to open January 2015. Sungevity has partnered with The University of Kansas (KU) Career Services Alliance and selected Kansas City...
Authority on U.S.-Russian relations to visit
Victoria Zhuravleva will present “Russia and the United States: Images of Each Other in the Ukrainian Crisis” at noon Tuesday, Nov. 18, in 318 Bailey Hall. The talk is one of the KU Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREES) weekly Brownbag lecture series. Zhuravleva is the professor...
GIS Day to explore innovations in mapping technology
The University of Kansas will host an event Wednesday, Nov. 19, that is part of a worldwide celebration that showcases recent developments and practical applications in geographic information systems, or GIS. ...
NSF grant to research how children learn an indigenous language in Mexico
To better understand how children acquire languages, a University of Kansas professor is visiting remote Mexican villages to study toddlers who are learning to speak a fading indigenous language. ...
Architecture professor wins Aga Khan Fellowship
evoke an emotional bond between the geographically and culturally separate, but politically unified regions of Pakistan and East-Pakistan. The architecture of this bygone postcolonial experiment is dispersed over vast regions of today’s Pakistan and Bangladesh. ...
Media Advisory: Former NASA astronaut available to discuss Philae/Rosetta comet mission
Steven Hawley, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas and former NASA astronaut, is available to speak with reporters about the European Space Agency’s successful landing Wednesday of a spacecraft on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, some 317 million miles from Earth. ...
First of three candidates for dean of Social Welfare to visit KU
The first of three candidates for dean of the School of Social Welfare will visit the University of Kansas next week to visit the campus community and give a public presentation. ...
Central District Plan driving transformation of KU's modern center
From the building that welcomed KU’s first class in 1866, Old North College, to the area west of Allen Fieldhouse today, the center of the University of Kansas campus has shifted significantly in 148 years. ...
Caboni selected to participate in Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leadership
The University of Kansas vice chancellor for public affairs is one of two dozen senior leaders selected for the inaugural class of fellows in an innovative new program that will engage participants by exploring the leadership challenges that confront today’s universities. ...
Project seeks to discover aspects of early Jewish childhood
Childhood in the West today is often determined by age. However, in Roman and Jewish antiquity a family's social status likely influenced whether a young boy or girl spent time going to school and playing with other children at all or if they would be required to start earning money...
Research reveals the real cause of death for some starburst galaxies
Like hedonistic rock stars that live by the “better to burn out than to fade away” credo, certain galaxies flame out in a blaze of glory. Astronomers have struggled to grasp why these young “starburst” galaxies — ones that are very rapidly forming new stars from cold molecular hydrogen gas...