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KU announces September employees of the month
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has announced the September 2015 employees of the month. They are as follows:...
KU to honor 48 seniors from Chautauqua, Cowley county high schools
LAWRENCE — Students from seven Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, Nov. 11, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
KU to honor 175 seniors from Wyandotte County high schools
LAWRENCE — Students from nine Kansas high schools will be honored Tuesday, Nov. 10, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
Debate about rest rooms, locker rooms can be sticking point on transgender policy, researcher says
LAWRENCE — Federal education officials have ruled an Illinois school district violated anti-discrimination laws by not allowing a transgender student who identifies as female to use the girls' locker room without restrictions. ...
Shogren appointed co-director for KU disabilities center
LAWRENCE — Karrie Shogren has been appointed the co-director of the Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities. Shogren, associate professor of special education, also serves as the co-director of the Beach Center on Disability. Both centers are affiliated with the Life Span Institute at the University of Kansas. ...
Men & Masculinities Symposium set for Nov. 15
LAWRENCE — The Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity and the Men & Masculinities Workgroup will host the third annual Men & Masculinities Symposium from noon to 5 p.m. Nov. 15 in the Kansas Memorial Union. The symposium is open to all University of Kansas students, faculty and...
KU lands grant to help young adults with disabilities and their families attend college
LAWRENCE — Researchers and educators at the University of Kansas have secured a grant that will help more young people with disabilities attend the university while supporting them and their families in preparing for adulthood and competitive careers. ...
Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center announces October graduates
YODER – Forty-four new law enforcement officers were congratulated by Eric K. Jackson, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Kansas City Field Office, during their graduation from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC) on Oct. 23. ...
Engineering to host High School Design Competition on Nov. 3
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas School of Engineering will host its annual High School Design competition starting at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3, at the engineering complex, including the new Learned Engineering Expansion Phase 2 (LEEP2) building. Opening ceremonies will take place at the Horejsi Family Athletics Center. ...
KU selects vice provost for undergraduate studies
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas will have a new vice provost for undergraduate studies in January. DeAngela Burns-Wallace, currently the assistant vice provost for undergraduate studies at the University of Missouri, will join KU near the start of the spring semester. ...
2015 ExCEL Award winners announced at Homecoming game
LAWRENCE — Two University of Kansas seniors received the 25th annual Excellence in Community, Education and Leadership Awards during halftime of the KU-Oklahoma Homecoming football game Oct. 31 in Memorial Stadium. ...
KU announces August employees of the month
Lawrence — The University of Kansas has announced its August 2015 employees of the month. They are as follows:...
Prestigious NIH award fuels research on human clearance of drugs, foreign chemicals
LAWRENCE — Emily Scott, professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Kansas, has been recognized with a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences. It’s a rare and important recognition — researchers can receive them only once in a career. ...
WWI series will explore important role of nurses on Eastern Front
LAWRENCE – A University of Kansas lecture series focused on the lesser-known stories of World War I’s Eastern Front puts nurses in the spotlight for its second public talk. ...
Final candidate for KU Libraries dean to present Monday
LAWRENCE — The final 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 Endowment elects 4 new trustees
LAWRENCE — At today’s annual meeting of the KU Endowment Board of Trustees, four new trustees were elected: Angela Chammas of Hawthorn Woods, Illinois; Marvin Motley of Leawood; Diane Yetter of Chicago, and Carl Krehbiel, of Moundridge. ...
Professors seek to reduce incarceration rates for mentally ill prisoners
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas researchers are part of a grant that will work to reduce the number of individuals with serious mental illnesses who are incarcerated who could be better served in other settings. The project will have a special focus on reducing the number of women and veterans...
From Slavic folklore to Sookie Stackhouse, new course will study vampire depiction in the East and West
LAWRENCE – A University of Kansas professor hopes the allure of vampires will tempt students to learn more about the region of the world from which Dracula hails. ...
There's a need for financial inclusion in United States, social welfare professor says
LAWRENCE — The Center for Financial Inclusion has designated Monday, Nov. 2, through Friday, Nov. 6, as Financial Inclusion Week in an effort to raise awareness worldwide of the importance and value of extending access to financial services to everyone. Known as FI2020, the effort is coordinating events around the...
In KU professor's 'Deep City,' poetry examines how cities, individuals experience crisis
University mourns death of student Dylan Wappelhorst
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas community is mourning the death of Dylan Wappelhorst, a freshman from Colwich. ...
Lack of elderly care, 'little emperor syndrome,' behind China abandoning one-child policy, researcher says
LAWRENCE — Chinese state media announced this week all couples would be allowed to have two children, signaling an official abandonment of the country's controversial 35-year-old, one-child policy. ...
Professor Philip Gura to give annual literary lecture
LAWRENCE — A renowned scholar in early American literature will present “‘I’ or ‘We’: Placing the Self in Antebellum U.S. Literature and Culture” for the 2015 Richard W. Gunn Memorial Lecture at the University of Kansas. ...
South Carolina incident shines spotlight on need to consider role of police in schools, race, discipline, professor says
LAWRENCE — An incident in which a white sheriff’s deputy threw an African-American girl to the floor and drug her across a classroom in Columbia, South Carolina, sparked outrage earlier this week and has led to an announcement of a Justice Department investigation. The incident is one more case in...
Former president Bill Clinton to receive 2015 Dole Leadership Prize
LAWRENCE – The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas is pleased to announce that it will honor former President Bill Clinton with the 2015 Dole Leadership Prize. The prize will be awarded at a program at the Lied Center on the west campus of the...