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Freshman class at Kansas’ flagship university grows for third straight year
Enrollment numbers released today show that for the third year in a row, the University of Kansas freshman class has grown. ...
Geosynthetics society bestows highest honor on engineering professor
A career dedicated to researching and developing materials to help strengthen and stabilize paved and unpaved roads has earned international recognition for a professor from the University of Kansas School of Engineering. ...
Lecture to focus on sustainability, lifestyle changes for nomadic peoples
The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas is sponsoring a multimedia presentation by Sas Carey, registered nurse and director of Nomadicare, a nonprofit organization that supports the sustainability and cultural survival of nomadic peoples by harmonizing traditional and modern medicine and documenting nomadic life ways, lore...
Prestigious Chancellors Club Teaching Professorships awarded to faculty
As part of KU’s 2014 Homecoming Weekend, a pair of University of Kansas scientists — one in microbiology and another in pathology — will join a group of 10 KU faculty and four colleagues at the Medical Center who share a special distinction. They have been recognized for a distinguished...
KU Endowment elects new chair, 5 new trustees
KU Endowment’s Board of Trustees elected The Hon. Deanell Reece Tacha as new board chair and Charles E. Heath as vice chair, and elected five other University of Kansas alumni as trustees at today’s annual meeting of the association’s Board of Trustees. Tacha, the first woman to chair the board,...
University mourns scholar who established study of Chinese art at KU
The University of Kansas is mourning the loss of Chu-tsing Li, Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History, Emeritus. Li died Sept. 16 at the age of 94. ...
Reality show on child beauty pageants sends damaging message to young girls, research finds
“Toddlers and Tiaras,” a TLC reality television show and guilty pleasure for many, sends confusing and damaging messages to its pint-sized participants, new research finds. ...
Lecture to explore Civil War Era themes
Lawrence has strong historical ties to the abolitionist movement and during the Civil War was home to leaders with a strong conviction that Kansas should become and remain a free state. ...
Media advisory: KU expert available to discuss Eric Holder's resignation
A University of Kansas researcher is available to speak about the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the political climate President Barack Obama faces in appointing Holder's successor. ...
Volunteers sought for United Way Reality U program
Faculty and staff from the University of Kansas will educate students in a new context next week. They will be among the volunteers at Reality U, a program designed to give teens a crash course in the demands of adult life. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 1, and...
New Staff Fellows announced
Provost Jeff Vitter and Associate Vice Provost Mike Rounds have announced the 2014-15 class of Staff Fellows. The program, now in its seventh year, is jointly coordinated by the Office of the Provost and Human Resource Management. Applications were accepted in September, and 15 new fellows have been named. ...
Terrorism influences European asylum decisions, but humanitarian ideals remain, study finds
A University of Kansas researcher has found that European states that experienced a terrorist attack on their own soil since 1980 were less likely to grant asylum to refugees. ...
Virtual Vector Project aims to turn mobile phones into detectors of disease-spreading insects
Insects transmit many of the world’s most infectious diseases, but there has been a decline in the expertise needed to recognize species of insects most likely to transmit illness to people. ...
KU remembers William Scott for Shakespeare scholarship, work on faculty rights
The University of Kansas is mourning the loss of William Scott, a professor of English at KU for more than 55 years. He died in August at the age of 82. ...
Economist, social capital scholar to give talk
The School of Business and Department of Psychology have invited John Helliwell, professor emeritus of economics at the University of British Columbia and a senior fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, to give a lecture at the University of Kansas. ...
Group creates classroom materials for social studies teachers
A student-professional group at the University of Kansas has grown from providing students with networking and mentoring opportunities to putting lesson plans they’ve developed into classrooms and making them available for teachers around the world. ...
From foxtrot to salsa, professor studies popularity of Western-influenced dancing in China
A University of Kansas professor spent 10 months in China studying the influence Western-style dancing has on contemporary Chinese society. ...
Design students win AIGA KC Awards
University of Kansas Department of Design students won four out of five student Juror's Choice awards from the Kansas City chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. ...
Hall Center raises NEH Challenge Grant funds 2 years ahead of schedule
grants are capacity-building grants, intended to help institutions and organizations secure long-term support for their humanities programs and resources. ...
University Theatre to present Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play
7:30 p.m. Oct. 3-4 and 7-9 as well as 2:30 p.m. Oct. 5 in the Inge Theatre, Murphy Hall. ...
Engineering seniors named national Tau Beta Pi scholars
Two seniors at the University of Kansas School of Engineering were recognized for distinguished scholarship and exemplary character by the oldest engineering honor society in the United States. Darrin Sorem, a Lawrence native studying mechanical engineering, and Haider Tarar, a chemical engineering major from Pakistan, are 2014-2015 Tau Beta Pi...
KU radars provide critical remap of glaciers tied to sea level rise
Researchers at the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets based at the University of Kansas have unlocked important new details below the ice in key areas of Greenland and Antarctica that will reshape how scientists forecast changes to sea level. Data collected through radar systems created at KU provide...
KU Endowment provides record $124.1 million to KU
Every year, private philanthropy benefits all aspects of the University of Kansas. Fiscal 2014, which ended June 30, continued that tradition: KU Endowment provided a record $124.1 million in direct financial support for KU and The University of Kansas Hospital. ...
Law students taking on more cases through new partnership with Midwest Innocence Project
Innocence Project, a member of the national Innocence Network, is dedicated to the investigation, litigation and exoneration of wrongfully convicted men and women in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa and Nebraska. ...
KU names director of Public Management Center
The University of Kansas has named an alumna who is known regionally for her impressive public administration track record as the new director of its Public Management Center (PMC) and courtesy professor within the School of Public Affairs and Administration. ...
Prominent journalism alumni to return to campus for J-School Generations
Prominent graduates of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications will be on campus for J-School Generations 2014, which will be Sept. 25-26. ...
Media advisory: Distracted-driving expert available to discuss role in acclaimed new book
University of Kansas researcher Paul Atchley is a major source for the forthcoming book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel, “A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention.”...
Researchers studying perceptions of patients living with chronic pain
Nearly one third of Americans suffer every day from chronic pain. Yet people, even doctors, often don’t understand the struggle of living with pain so severe it can keep victims from working, taking care of children, intimate relationships and other things associated with quality of life. Many lose notions of...
Communication studies professor receives career achievement award
The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Kansas presented Donn Parson, professor emeritus in the Department of Communication Studies, the 2014 Career Achievement Teaching Award at a reception Wednesday. This $1,000 annual award recognizes a retired faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in teaching and has...
Film & Media Studies brings cult fan film screening, filmmaker to campus
In 1982, 11-year-old Chris Strompolos asked 12-year-old Eric Zala a question: “Would you like to help me do a remake of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’? I’m playing Indiana Jones.” And seven years later, a cult classic film was created. That film, “Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation,” will...