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Edwards Campus offering science management training
OVERLAND PARK — KU Professional & Continuing Education has introduced a new professional education program to increase organizational management training options for working professionals in science-related fields. ...
Media advisory: Turkey’s snap elections couldn’t come at a worse time, expert says
LAWRENCE – Neighbored by warring countries and flooded with refugees, Turkey will hold general elections Sunday, Nov. 1, for the second time in five months. A scholar at the University of Kansas is available to speak about what’s at stake in the snap elections and can discuss possible outcomes. ...
Departments will recognize Lawrence Public Schools with Whelan Kansas Leadership for Learning Award
LAWRENCE — Each year, the Department of Special Education and the Center for Research on Learning at the University of Kansas recognize the work of educators in the state of Kansas with the Whelan Kansas Leadership for Learning Award. ...
Third candidate for dean of KU Libraries to present Wednesday
LAWRENCE — The third of four candidates for the dean of KU Libraries position at the University of Kansas will make a public presentation during an upcoming campus visit. ...
KU to honor 63 seniors from Labette, Montgomery county high schools
LAWRENCE — Students from eight Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, Nov. 4, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
KU to honor 69 high school seniors from six Southwest Kansas counties
LAWRENCE — Students from 10 Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, Nov. 4, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
Candidate for dean of KU Libraries to present Monday
LAWRENCE — The second of four candidates for the dean of KU Libraries position at the University of Kansas will make a public presentation during an upcoming campus visit. ...
Ten KU seniors named finalists for 25th annual Ex.C.E.L. Awards
LAWRENCE — Ten finalists have been selected for the 25th annual Excellence in Community, Education and Leadership Awards at the University of Kansas. The finalists, all seniors, will participate in the Homecoming parade at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, along Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence. Two winners, one male and...
Examining European Union through domestic lens offers insights, professor says
LAWRENCE — Multinational organizations like the European Union are unique in many ways, but examining such bodies through a lens commonly used to study domestic governmental systems can shed light on why such groupings work and the directions they may be headed. Richard E. Levy, J.B. Smith Distinguished Professor of...
Richard Pryor's daughter to show film, discuss life as child of celebrity
LAWRENCE – Rain Pryor, daughter of the late famed comedian Richard Pryor, will visit the University of Kansas to screen a documentary about seeking her identity in the shadow of celebrity, as well as a black Jewish woman. ...
Undergraduate Advising Center wins international award for innovation
LAWRENCE — Details matter. A University of Kansas initiative to provide advisers with more detail about student activity and help those professionals see trends and potential warning signs has earned the Undergraduate Advising Center an international honor. ...
KU nominates three students, one alumna for Rhodes, Marshall scholarships
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has nominated three students and a recent alumna for prestigious fellowships for study in the United Kingdom. Alexis Knutsen, Alex Kong, Jennifer Stern and Jessica van Loben Sels are applying for the Marshall Scholarship; Knutsen, Kong and Stern are also applying for the Rhodes...
Paul Jess, professor emeritus of journalism, dies
LAWRENCE – Paul Jess, professor emeritus of journalism, died Oct. 22 at the age of 83. ...
Council for Opportunity in Education honors CEOP Director Ngondi Kamatuka
LAWRENCE — The Council for Opportunity in Education this fall honored Ngondi Kamatuka, director of the Center for Educational Opportunity Programs (CEOP) in KU’s Achievement & Assessment Institute, with the Walter O. Mason Award. ...
Webinar series will feature prominent poets
LAWRENCE – A webinar series hosted by the Project on the History of Black Writing at the University of Kansas will allow the public to hear firsthand from a prominent group of intergenerational, award-winning poets on their creative process. ...
Student entrepreneur selected for “Spotlight” at Pipeline Innovator celebration in KC
LAWRENCE — Playing college football and multiple high school sports before crowds of cheering fans prepared Austin Barone for a different kind of audience: more than 600 of the region’s top innovators and entrepreneurs at a major event in Kansas City, Missouri. ...
KU to honor 63 seniors from Dickinson, Geary, Morris county high schools
LAWRENCE — Students from eight Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, Nov. 4, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
Residence halls sponsor Halloween event
LAWRENCE — Daisy Hill Commons and Hashinger Hall will be the sites of Halloween in the Halls from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25. Children must be accompanied by an adult. ...
KU to honor 362 seniors from Sedgwick county high schools
LAWRENCE — Students from 13 Kansas high schools will be honored Monday, Nov. 2, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
KU to honor 216 seniors from Shawnee, Wabaunsee county high schools
LAWRENCE - Students from 13 Kansas high schools will be honored Tuesday, Nov. 3, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
KU to honor 91 seniors from Clay, Pottawatomie and Riley county high schools
LAWRENCE — Students from 10 Kansas high schools will be honored Monday, Nov. 2, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
Politics, lack of progress drive cities to drop climate-protection commitments, study finds
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New book ‘On the Wing’ tracks evolution of flight in natural world
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas biologist David Alexander grew up in Dayton, Ohio, the hometown of the flight-pioneering Wright brothers — so it’s only natural he became fixated with aviation from a young age, developing a lifelong passion for airplanes. ...
Kansas Enrichment Network teaming with Missouri colleagues for summit on afterschool, expanded learning
LAWRENCE — At the inaugural Afterschool STEM Summit in Washington, the National League of Cities (NLC) announced the selection of seven statewide afterschool networks (SANs), including the University of Kansas-based Kansas Enrichment Network (KEN) and Missouri AfterSchool Network, to receive technical and financial assistance to host statewide municipal summits on...
Law symposium to explore sexual assault on college campuses
LAWRENCE – Recent studies indicate that nearly one in four female students experience sexual violence during their college years – troubling figures that are attracting national media attention and serious evaluations by universities of how they handle such crimes. ...
Government type can predict country's place in global Internet network
LAWRENCE — The type of governance of a nation can predict its citizens’ access to the Internet and the value of that country’s connections to other nations around the world, a new study has found. Liberal democracies dominated the global Internet network in both 2002 and 2011, followed by polyarchies...
KSDE wins $5.8M award, taps KU center to develop learning-maps-based instructional model
Formative assessment is a process used by teachers and students to monitor progress and adjust instructional activities to meet students’ learning needs. Throughout the development process, CETE will engage with approximately 400 elementary- and middle-school educators across the project’s five partnering states. ...
Notable engineer will give lecture on professionalism in the field
LAWRENCE — Randall Over, the 2014 president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), will deliver the University of Kansas School of Engineering’s annual J.A. Tiberti Family Lecture at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, in Spahr Engineering Classroom in Eaton Hall. The lecture is free and open to the...
‘Goat Bones in the Basement’ lecture explores ‘dark tourism’
LAWRENCE – A chance visit to a haunted house tour in Savannah, Georgia, led to a new area of research for a scholar who will present the lecture “Goat Bones in the Basement: A Case of Race, Gender and Haunting in Old Savannah” at the University of Kansas. ...