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University announces June 2014 employees of the month
University mourns loss of pre-law student Jack Lange
vigil will take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 18, at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 1234 Kentucky St. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 19, at the church. Burial will be at Mount Calvary Cemetery. ...
Mexican-American theater contributed to WWII effort, sense of citizenship
For Latino-Americans, World War II was a turning point in melding home country nationalism with recently acquired U.S. citizenship. A University of Kansas scholar has studied how those dynamics unfolded in Mexican-American theater during the 1940s. ...
Media advisory: Finance professor to testify before U.S. Senate banking committee
University of Kansas finance professor Bob DeYoung will speak today before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protections. ...
Ancient packrat nests reveal how plants coped with past climate change
Scientists are greatly concerned about the effects that rising carbon dioxide concentration and temperature will have on organisms in the future. Fortunately, scientists can gain a sense for how organisms may respond to future climate change by determining how they responded to climate change events in the past. ...
KU coordinates Fulbright orientation program
Twenty-five Fulbright international students are attending this year’s English Refinement for Graduate Studies Program for Fulbright Grantees at the University of Kansas to help them acclimate to academic life and American culture before they begin their graduate studies. The students arrived June 30. ...
Study: Interracial marriages involving Asian-Americans still can leave racial barriers
A University of Kansas researcher says the high rate of interracial marriages among Asian-Americans should not simply be interpreted as a litmus test of assimilation for the minority group. ...
University adds new major in human sexuality
The University of Kansas has introduced a new major in human sexuality for undergraduate students, the first of its kind in the state. ...
Researcher gauges species' evolutionary lag time in face of an altered climate
Either change or disappear. ...
KU community invited to visit with representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The University of Kansas community will have a chance to discuss international trade, culture, government affairs and related topics with a representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ...
Audio-Reader announcer Art Hadley honored
Art Hadley, longtime producer, engineer and announcer for the University of Kansas Audio-Reader Network, was recently recognized for his outstanding contributions to the International Association of Audio Information Services (IAAIS) at an awards ceremony during the IAAIS conference last month in Fort Wayne, Indiana. ...
CDR team presents research to Sprint executives
The sky is the limit in terms of using wireless technology in different applications, according to a team of 10 Center for Design Research students from the University of Kansas. They were invited in May by Sprint’s representatives to present new concepts for utilizing Sprint Velocity– a comprehensive end-to-end solution...
Professor finds intellectuals play important role in Mexico’s public sphere
Compared with the United States, the influence of intellectuals in Mexico’s social and political spheres has been extraordinary, although the danger of using that power has come with threats to position, freedom and life. ...
University announces spring 2014 honor roll
Approximately 4,600 undergraduate students at the University of Kansas earned honor roll distinction for the spring 2014 semester. ...
Media advisory: KU experts available to discuss immigration issues
The recent surge of 52,000 women and children from Central America crossing the U.S. border with Mexico has overwhelmed U.S. immigration officials in the region. President Barack Obama on Tuesday has asked Congress to approve nearly $4 billion in emergency funding. Several University of Kansas faculty members are available to...
KU expands accelerated master's programs with new track in classics
The University of Kansas continues to expand opportunities for students to complete advanced studies with the addition of an accelerated master’s degree program in classics. ...
School of Education opens application window for undergraduate students entering professional programs
guidance of the advising team and others at the School of Education, students choose from multiple teacher education programs, including elementary education, unified early childhood and various subject area teaching programs (middle level math, middle level science, English, social studies and foreign language). In addition to the teacher education programs,...
Edwards Campus broadens degree, certificate programs
— Early-career professionals seeking advanced degrees or certifications have five new opportunities for higher education at the University of Kansas Edwards Campus beginning this fall. ...
Media advisory: KU news director announced
Erinn Barcomb-Peterson is the new director of news and media relations at the University of Kansas, effective today. She succeeds David Martin, who had been in the role on an interim basis. ...
Women’s leadership program welcomes international, in-state students to KU
The University of Kansas will welcome a new set of students to campus this summer. Women from Asia, North Africa and Kansas will be on the Lawrence campus for the Kansas Women’s Leadership Institute. ...
'Travel with Rick Steves' comes to KPR2
KPR2 has added a new, hourlong travel show to its weekly lineup, "Travel with Rick Steves." A lively mix of guest interviews and listener calls, "Travel with Rick Steves" goes beyond the Europe that Steves is famous for, with shows covering travel and cultures across every continent. ...
Professorship honors former law faculty member
University of Kansas School of Law alumnus Art Piculell of Portland, Oregon, and his late wife, Dee, have made a $500,000 gift to establish a professorship honoring the late Professor Earl B. Shurtz, who taught at KU Law from 1955 to 1977. ...
KU establishes agreement with Ghanaian university
The University of Kansas has signed a memorandum of understanding for cultural, educational and scientific cooperation with a Ghanaian university, the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale Campus. ...
‘Lifemapper’ shows where Earth’s organisms live today and might go tomorrow
Scientists in the field have collected voucher specimens since the 19th century. Today, most sit in research institutions around the world “dried, mounted, pickled, preserved, frozen and stuffed,” according to the creators of Lifemapper, an online species-distribution tool created at the University of Kansas. ...
Professor aiding Kazakhstan in switching native language to Latin alphabet
A University of Kansas professor is helping a Central Asian country increase its economic development potential and better integrate with new technology by mapping a Latin-based writing system for the country’s native language. ...
Study links major depression to higher risk of death among older U.S. adults
U.S. adults 50 and older who suffer from major depression face a 43 percent increase in the risk of death, especially cardiovascular disease or cancer, according to a study involving a University of Kansas researcher published recently in the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences by Oxford University Press. ...
KU receives third consecutive national fundraising award
For the third year in a row, the University of Kansas has been nationally recognized for the effectiveness and professionalism of its fundraising programs. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) chose KU among a select group of universities receiving a 2014 Educational Fundraising Award. ...
Media advisory: KU law expert can discuss Supreme Court's ruling in Hobby Lobby case
Rick Levy, the J.B. Smith Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Kansas School of Law, is available to discuss the upcoming Supreme Court ruling in Sebelius v Hobby Lobby Stores. The case addresses the question of whether Hobby Lobby Stores can be required to provide contraception to...
Book on female Nigerian scholar points to long tradition of educating women
An African studies professor at the University of Kansas has spent her career studying the work of a 19th century female scholar who was a passionate activist for women’s education in a region of the world that is now searching for hundreds of missing schoolgirls. ...
Outstanding humanities graduate students receive Hall Center research awards
The Hall Center for the Humanities has recognized several outstanding humanities graduate students with dissertation research and writing awards. The awards are part of the Center’s significant level of support for graduate research. ...