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Student’s project helps paralyzed uncle, wins honor
KU awards three Wounded Warrior Scholarships
The University of Kansas’ Office of Graduate Military Programs has announced three students have received the University’s Wounded Warrior Scholarship for the 2014-2015 academic year. Additionally, KU is honored to announce the Bill and Shanthi Eckert Wounded Disabled Veteran Scholarship, which directly contributes to a specific Wounded Warrior Scholarship. ...
Public Safety Office announces 2013 crime statistics
Crime at the University of Kansas declined in 2013 by 18 percent, KU’s Public Safety Office advised today with the release of its annual crime statistics. ...
KU announces new leadership in University Honors Program
Fulbright Scholar to present talk on tissue engineering
Donald K. Alderson Memorial Award and Rusty Leffel Concerned Student awards announced
Four graduating seniors will walk down the hill with an extra spring in their step this year, knowing that they have dedicated the last four years to leaving the University of Kansas campus a better place for future Jayhawks. Addison Keegan-Harris, Tyler Childress, Anahita Khanlari and Tyler Wright will be...
Social media, 'forced crowdsourcing' have given fans unprecedented power in decisions to fire coaches
As the case of disgraced Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling so vividly illustrated, once evidence falls into the clutches of social media, the resulting downfall can be nearly instantaneous. A University of Kansas professor has examined how fans and the world at large now have the ability to put...
Natural History Museum welcomes new bee colony to exhibit
The KU Natural History Museum will welcome a new bee colony to its bee tree and observation hive on the sixth floor of Dyche Hall on Friday, May 9. ...
Thousands of World War I era art pieces gifted to Spencer Museum of Art
One of the richest collections of World War I era art in the country can now be found at the University of Kansas’ Spencer Art Museum through Professor Eric G. Carlson’s gift of more than 3,000 pieces. ...
Hall Center announces Humanities Lecture Series speakers for 2014-2015
The Hall Center for the Humanities has announced the speakers for its 2014-2015 Humanities Lecture Series. The series will include Katherine Boo, John Symons, Amy Wilentz, Anna Deavere Smith, Natasha Trethewey and James Oakes. The lectures are free, open to the public and begin at 7:30 p.m. on the dates...
Research points way to 'holy grail' therapy for autoimmune diseases
Scientists at the University of Kansas are working toward a potential breakthrough therapy for a host of autoimmune diseases. Long a goal of immunology, the approach targets only the handful of dangerous "self-reactive" T cells that can harm the body and leaves alone the vast majority of T cells that...
Scholarship honors ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ star
A recent visit with students in the University of Kansas Department of Theatre inspired alumnus Jon Eicholtz and his wife, actress Barbara Eden, of Beverly Hills, California, to make a $300,000 gift to provide an undergraduate scholarship for students who plan to be professional actors. ...
Architecture students completing fifth design-build project at KU Field Station
University of Kansas third-year architecture students are wrapping up the program’s fifth design-build project at the KU Field Station. The structure, a timber canopy supported by rammed-earth walls, extends over a sunny patio at the Field Station’s Armitage Education Center, a space used by many KU groups and other visitors. ...
School of Engineering will honor two for distinguished careers
the Alfred P. Learned Distinguished Professor of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, and Linda Ellis Sims, a retired ExxonMobil executive, will receive the Distinguished Engineering Service Award in a ceremony set for 6 p.m. at the Kansas Union. ...
Researcher weighs contributing factors to inequality in K.C. schools
A University of Kansas professor has co-authored a study showing that differences between school districts in greater Kansas City, often attributed to race, have been shaped by factors such as parents’ education and affluence, helping sustain disadvantage in some districts and deepen school inequality. ...
KU to recognize retirees at luncheon
The University of Kansas will honor retiring faculty and unclassified staff members with a lunch at noon May 22 in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little will recognize the employees during the lunch. ...
Seniors honored with Wright, Dillard University Awards
While thousands of new University of Kansas graduates will celebrate the personal achievement of earning their degrees at the 142nd Commencement on May 18, four outstanding seniors will also be recognized with 2014 University Awards for the time they spent on Mount Oread serving and leading their classmates. ...
Stop Day tour will offer fresh perspective of campus landmarks
Retired University of Kansas professor Ted Johnson, French and Italian, will give his Stop Day walking tour of the architecture and sculptures along the university’s campus Friday, May 9. Attendees will make observations during the informal, peripatetic, Socratic dialogues that grow out of the various sites visited. ...
Film and Media Studies to present Lifetime Achievement Award
Cinematographer and University of Kansas alumnus Ward Russell will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Department of Film and Media Studies this week at their annual award ceremony at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 8, at Liberty Hall. The ceremony is open to the public. ...
Study examines disadvantages for rural districts at recruiting high-quality teachers
Rural school districts are at a distinct disadvantage in being able to attract high-quality teachers out of college compared with suburban and urban districts, according to recent study funded by the Spencer Foundation and released online in The American Review of Public Administration. ...
Student leader honored as Newman Civic Fellow
Ashlie Koehn, a junior from Burns at the University of Kansas, was recently named the KU Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact. Koehn joins 196 student leaders across the country who have demonstrated an investment in their community to be Newman Civic Fellows. Through service, research, and advocacy, these Fellows...
Professor: Free-trade agreement hampered by lack of transparency
The Trans-Pacific Partnership has the potential to be the most economically and politically significant free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region, but it is being hindered by a nontransparent drafting process and perceptions of favoring American corporate interests over poverty alleviation, according to a new article by a University of...
Somali language program aims to meet need of growing immigrant population
Responding to the state’s increasing Somali-speaking population, the University of Kansas will soon be one of the first universities in the country to provide language training in Somali. ...
Four earn University Awards honoring academic achievement
Many words come to mind when describing 2014 University Awards recipients Emily Frese, Benjamin Jang, Samuel Logan and Autumn Smith, among them adventurous, driven and dedicated. The four University of Kansas seniors graduate at the 142nd Commencement, leaving behind them a history of commitment and hard work at KU. ...
Trio of jurists to receive law school’s Distinguished Alumni Award
Three University of Kansas School of Law alumni with distinguished careers in the judiciary and public service are set to receive the school’s highest honor. ...
Laird Essay Contest winners announced
The Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies has announced that this year’s Roy D. and Betty Laird Essay Contest winners are Department of History doctoral student Robert Jameson, for his essay titled “Crimea as Kosovo and Sudetenland: The Peril of Historical Narratives in the 2014 Russo-Ukrainian Crisis” and...
John Hadl to lend support to Audio-Reader for its fifth annual Golf Classic
Legendary University of Kansas and professional football player John Hadl has teamed up with Audio-Reader to chair the fifth annual Audio-Reader Golf Classic, which will be Monday, May 19, at Alvamar Country Club. ...
Cory Berkland receives Baxendale Commercialization Award at KU Innovation Fair
The inventive research of University of Kansas faculty and students was recognized and celebrated May 1 at the second annual KU Innovation Fair. The program was hosted by KU Innovation and Collaboration, the university’s technology commercialization office. ...
Researcher calls for inclusion of heritage language in teacher preparation
Heritage language education is growing, but it is still not recognized by students, parents, teachers and teacher educators as a benefit for people who have language background other than English. A University of Kansas researcher argues that by more carefully considering the cultural identities of heritage language learners and reaching...