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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. ...
Audio-Reader celebrates growth, service during annual dinner
LAWRENCE — Audio-Reader marked 44 years of growth during its annual volunteer appreciation dinner earlier this month. ...
Economic opportunity in Kansas is focus of upcoming conference
LAWRENCE — The widening income gap between the wealthiest and the poorest Americans has become an issue of growing concern for economists, educators and policymakers nationwide. The local and regional perspective on this national debate will be showcased at the University of Kansas on Thursday, Oct. 22, when the annual...
Art & Design Gallery to host solo show with international media artist
LAWRENCE — An internationally renowned artist with a substantial and cutting-edge body of creative work will have a solo show at the Art & Design Gallery. Through video, sculpture, print and multichannel installations, Darrin Martin’s show, “Iterations,” explores the instability of the lens-based image as a reliable record of perception...
Department of Defense awards fellowship to graduate student
LAWRENCE — A fellowship from the Department of Defense will fund a University of Kansas graduate student’s research in nuclear physics as well as guarantee him a two-year appointment with a federal office upon graduation. ...
Candidate for dean of KU Libraries to present Tuesday
LAWRENCE — The first 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. ...
Polish novels reflect generation stunted by political upheaval
LAWRENCE – For the generation of Poles who came of age just as communism was ending, the country’s political transformation stunted their transition into adulthood, argues a University of Kansas scholar. ...
Baxendale Innovation Award goes to two KU researchers
LAWRENCE — Outstanding success in pharmaceutical research and technology commercialization has resulted in special recognition for two University of Kansas faculty members. ...
WWI series will shed light on Eastern Front experience
LAWRENCE – The lesser-known stories of World War I’s Eastern Front will be the centerpiece of a lecture series at the University of Kansas. The program is part of KU’s World War I Centennial Commemoration, which is being coordinated by the European Studies Program to mark the 100th anniversary of...
Reigning Miss Kansas World to lead Homecoming parade
LAWRENCE — Catherine Carmichael, the reigning Miss Kansas World and a 2014 University of Kansas graduate, will be grand marshal of the KU Homecoming Parade at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, on Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence. A pep rally on Eighth Street between Massachusetts and New Hampshire streets will...
Halt of Afghanistan troop withdrawal stems from Taliban, Islamic State, al-Qaeda advances, researcher says
LAWRENCE — Two University of Kansas researchers can discuss the military and political implications of President Barack Obama's decision to halt U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan and keep troops there until the end of his term. ...
University community mourns death of School of Education student Joseph Zadina
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas community is grieving the death of one of its students. ...
Professor wins best paper award at strategic management conference
LAWRENCE — Research by a University of Kansas School of Business professor has received top honors from the premier association in strategic management. ...
KU to honor 82 high school seniors from five East Central Kansas counties
Since 1971, the Kansas Honors Program has recognized over 125,000 scholars who rank in the top 10 percent of their high school senior classes and are selected regardless of occupational plans or higher education goals. Each year, the KU Alumni Association and its volunteers host 36 programs that reach all...
Free app empowers public to locate, recognize ancient fossils
LAWRENCE — Imagine shoveling soil to create a backyard garden plot and unearthing a rock embossed with the fossil remnant of a creature you’ve never seen before. It looks like something out of the ocean, but you live in the Midwest. ...
Inequality, Islamophobia remain in wake of Charlie Hebdo tragedy
LAWRENCE — Effects of the massacre of 12 journalists on Jan. 7 at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo linger as its news staff in Paris recently moved into new offices with heightened security. ...
KU creates Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Center
LAWRENCE —The University of Kansas has created a new office to centralize its ongoing sexual assault prevention and education efforts. ...
Math instructor’s legacy extends far beyond KU
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas professor of mathematics Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Ph.D., has been selected to receive a Chancellors Club Teaching Professorship. The award will provide a salary stipend of $10,000 for each of the next five years. ...
Software engineer, photographer to receive 2016 KU honorary degrees
LAWRENCE — The visionary co-creator of Google Earth and an iconic visual artist of the Great Plains will receive honorary degrees from the University of Kansas at its 2016 Commencement. ...
Dan Skinner named director for KPR, Audio-Reader
LAWRENCE — A native Kansan and an experienced public media leader will serve as the new director for Kansas Public Radio and the Audio-Reader Network. ...
Citizens have right to improve technologies without fear of legal action, professor says
LAWRENCE — The time has come for a philosophical change in the way the American legal system, government and private business view innovations created by private citizens, a University of Kansas professor argues in a new law review article. “Citizen innovators” have the legal right to develop new and better...
Urban ethnographer to speak on fugitive life in Philadelphia
LAWRENCE — Alice Goffman, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of "On the Run: Fugitive Life in An American City," will give a presentation next week on a little-known surveillance state in one of America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. ...
Media Advisory: Professors can share insight into 20th anniversary of Million Man March
LAWRENCE – Friday marks the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March. Led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, the event drew thousands of African-American men to Washington, D.C., on Oct. 16, 1995. On Saturday, Farrakhan will again lead a march, this one focused on the relationship between African-American...
University to host KU Elevate: Innovation in Action on Oct. 16
OVERLAND PARK — The University of Kansas will showcase four of its most innovative researchers — with some help from one of its most famous alumni — at a first-of-its kind event this week. ...
KU community invited to engage in Hunger Awareness Month throughout October
LAWRENCE — For many people, October is a month for pumpkins and Halloween festivities. But at the University of Kansas, October is also Hunger Awareness Month. ...
Local governments benefit from ongoing conceptual leadership training, study finds
LAWRENCE — City department supervisors would benefit from training roughly every eight to nine months on conceptual leadership skills, like strategic planning and conflict resolution, according to a study that includes two University of Kansas professors. ...
Pasik-Duncan elected to Board of Governors for technology association
LAWRENCE — Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, professor of mathematics and courtesy professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Kansas, has been elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Society for Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) for 2016-2018. She has also been appointed to the Mathematical Association...
Visiting professor to explore issues in mental health access among youth
LAWRENCE — Omar Gudiño, Langston Hughes visiting Professor at the University of Kansas, will present “Understanding and Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Youth Mental Health Service Use” at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, in The Commons at Spooner Hall. ...