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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...
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...
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. ...
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). ...
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...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
Award will support weight-loss efforts for people with disabilities
LAWRENCE — Marren Leon-Barajas has won the inaugural Community Living Research Award from the University of Kansas Research and Training Center on Independent Living. ...
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. ...
Professors named as AAAS fellows
LAWRENCE – Two University of Kansas professors have been selected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their distinguished efforts to advance science and its applications. ...
HSES Department to host the 2015 Naismith Lecture Series event
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Department of Health, Sport, and Exercise Sciences welcomes author and educator Milton Katz as keynote speaker at the annual James Naismith Lecture Series. ...
Outreach center will host children's holiday party
LAWRENCE — More than 700 children from the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence will attend the 20th Annual MILK Holiday Party from noon-6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 9, in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Nearly 200 KU student volunteers will participate. ...
Day to serve as acting senior vice provost for academic affairs
LAWRENCE — Stuart Day, associate professor of Spanish and director of Faculty Programs in the Office of International Programs at the University of Kansas, has been selected to serve as acting senior vice provost for academic affairs. ...
Media advisory: House education reform allows states greater flexibility, professor says
LAWRENCE — The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly earlier this week to scale back the federal role in education. The bill does not remove the controversial and highly unpopular testing requirements of the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act, however. The legislation would return the power on how to use test...
Director of KU Public Safety Office to retire at year's end
LAWRENCE — A career that has spanned more than four decades and bridged multiple campuses at the University of Kansas is coming to a close. Ralph Oliver, director of KU Public Safety Office and chief of police, will retire Dec. 31. ...
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies awards 9 Tinker Field Research Grants
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies has awarded nine graduate students with Tinker Field Research Grants for work in Latin America during Winter 2015-2016. ...
Media Advisory: Professor predicts musical twist in 'The Hunger Games'
LAWRENCE – Music theorists aren’t typically in the forecasting business, but more than a year ago a University of Kansas professor predicted that “The Hunger Games” franchise would invert a musical gesture to reflect a plot twist in the final movies. ...
Prominent magazine honors internal auditor
LAWRENCE — Cate Neeley, assistant director and internal audit manager at the University of Kansas, has been named a 2015 Emerging Leader by Internal Auditor magazine. She shares the honor with 14 other practitioners who are taking innovative approaches to changing how the business world views the profession. ...
English department launching first Writers' Faire
LAWRENCE — The First and Second Year English program at the University of Kansas has announced a showcase of student writing projects, highlighting participants' talents, imagination and achievement. ...
Expert available to discuss Paris climate talks with reporters
LAWRENCE — The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP21, currently is meeting in Paris until Dec. 11. ...
Design students create innovative projects for city transportation
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas, city of Lawrence and MV Transportation have announced the 015-16 recipients of the MV Transportation Scholarship, designed to support experiential learning opportunities for current KU students. ...
'Bread, Wine, Chocolate' author will give talk on food, sustainability
LAWRENCE — Stroll through an American supermarket, and you’re bound to think you see endless diversity in products from avocados to ziti. But look closer, argues writer Simran Sethi, and you will learn that 95 percent of the world’s calories come from 30 species, and the vast majority of foods...
Specter of disaster provides important backdrop to Paris climate negotiations, researcher says
LAWRENCE — As the United Nations climate talks in Paris enter their third day, a University of Kansas researcher on environmental rhetoric and climate politics is available to discuss the developments. ...
Mortar Board announces Outstanding Educator Awards
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas chapter of Mortar Board, a national honor society for college seniors, recently selected five faculty members to receive Outstanding Educator Awards. The recipients were announced at the Dec. 1 men's basketball game against Loyola University in Allen Fieldhouse. ...
Final OMA director candidate to present Dec. 4
LAWRENCE – The last of three finalists for director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at the University of Kansas will make a public presentation Friday, Dec. 4. ...