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Volunteers sought for United Way Reality U program
LAWRENCE – Faculty and staff from the University of Kansas will educate students in a new context next week. They will be among the volunteers at Reality U, a program designed to give teens a crash course in the demands of adult life. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. ...
Media advisory: KU expert available to discuss Eric Holder's resignation
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas researcher is available to speak about the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the political climate President Barack Obama faces in appointing Holder's successor. ...
University mourns scholar who established study of Chinese art at KU
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas is mourning the loss of Chu-tsing Li, Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History, Emeritus. Li died Sept. 16 at the age of 94. ...
Lecture to explore Civil War Era themes
LAWRENCE — Lawrence has strong historical ties to the abolitionist movement and during the Civil War was home to leaders with a strong conviction that Kansas should become and remain a free state. ...
Group creates classroom materials for social studies teachers
LAWRENCE — A student-professional group at the University of Kansas has grown from providing students with networking and mentoring opportunities to putting lesson plans they’ve developed into classrooms and making them available for teachers around the world. ...
New Staff Fellows announced
LAWRENCE — Provost Jeff Vitter and Associate Vice Provost Mike Rounds have announced the 2014-15 class of Staff Fellows. The program, now in its seventh year, is jointly coordinated by the Office of the Provost and Human Resource Management. Applications were accepted in September, and 15 new fellows have been...
Terrorism influences European asylum decisions, but humanitarian ideals remain, study finds
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas researcher has found that European states that experienced a terrorist attack on their own soil since 1980 were less likely to grant asylum to refugees. ...
KU remembers William Scott for Shakespeare scholarship, work on faculty rights
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas is mourning the loss of William Scott, a professor of English at KU for more than 55 years. He died in August at the age of 82. ...
Economist, social capital scholar to give talk
LAWRENCE — The School of Business and Department of Psychology have invited John Helliwell, professor emeritus of economics at the University of British Columbia and a senior fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, to give a lecture at the University of Kansas. ...
Virtual Vector Project aims to turn mobile phones into detectors of disease-spreading insects
LAWRENCE — Insects transmit many of the world’s most infectious diseases, but there has been a decline in the expertise needed to recognize species of insects most likely to transmit illness to people. ...
Hall Center raises NEH Challenge Grant funds 2 years ahead of schedule
LAWRENCE—The Hall Center for the Humanities has raised the required private match of $1.275 million to complete fundraising for its third National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant, two years ahead of schedule. The NEH awarded the Center a grant of $425,000 to seed collaborative faculty research projects in the...
Engineering seniors named national Tau Beta Pi scholars
LAWRENCE — Two seniors at the University of Kansas School of Engineering were recognized for distinguished scholarship and exemplary character by the oldest engineering honor society in the United States. Darrin Sorem, a Lawrence native studying mechanical engineering, and Haider Tarar, a chemical engineering major from Pakistan, are 2014-2015 Tau...
University Theatre to present Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play
LAWRENCE— Dealing with loss, mental illness and the value of trust, “Proof” is a poignant drama about the nature of genius. The play will open at the University Theatre on Oct. 3. ...
From foxtrot to salsa, professor studies popularity of Western-influenced dancing in China
LAWRENCE – A University of Kansas professor spent 10 months in China studying the influence Western-style dancing has on contemporary Chinese society. ...
Design students win AIGA KC Awards
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas Department of Design students won four out of five student Juror's Choice awards from the Kansas City chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. ...
Prominent journalism alumni to return to campus for J-School Generations
LAWRENCE — Prominent graduates of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications will be on campus for J-School Generations 2014, which will be Sept. 25-26. ...
Researchers studying perceptions of patients living with chronic pain
LAWRENCE — Nearly one third of Americans suffer every day from chronic pain. Yet people, even doctors, often don’t understand the struggle of living with pain so severe it can keep victims from working, taking care of children, intimate relationships and other things associated with quality of life. Many lose...
Media advisory: Distracted-driving expert available to discuss role in acclaimed new book
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas researcher Paul Atchley is a major source for the forthcoming book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel, “A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention.”...
KU radars provide critical remap of glaciers tied to sea level rise
LAWRENCE — Researchers at the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets based at the University of Kansas have unlocked important new details below the ice in key areas of Greenland and Antarctica that will reshape how scientists forecast changes to sea level. Data collected through radar systems created at...
KU Endowment provides record $124.1 million to KU
LAWRENCE — Every year, private philanthropy benefits all aspects of the University of Kansas. Fiscal 2014, which ended June 30, continued that tradition: KU Endowment provided a record $124.1 million in direct financial support for KU and The University of Kansas Hospital. ...
Law students taking on more cases through new partnership with Midwest Innocence Project
LAWRENCE – Since 1965, the Paul E. Wilson Project for Innocence and Post-Conviction Remedies at the University of Kansas School of Law has worked to obtain new trials for convicted individuals whose constitutional rights were violated. In the last five years, 38 Project clients have been granted new trials. But...
KU names director of Public Management Center
LAWRENCE – The University of Kansas has named an alumna who is known regionally for her impressive public administration track record as the new director of its Public Management Center (PMC) and courtesy professor within the School of Public Affairs and Administration. ...
Communication studies professor receives career achievement award
LAWRENCE – The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Kansas presented Donn Parson, professor emeritus in the Department of Communication Studies, the 2014 Career Achievement Teaching Award at a reception Wednesday. This $1,000 annual award recognizes a retired faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in teaching...
Film & Media Studies brings cult fan film screening, filmmaker to campus
LAWRENCE — In 1982, 11-year-old Chris Strompolos asked 12-year-old Eric Zala a question: “Would you like to help me do a remake of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’? I’m playing Indiana Jones.” And seven years later, a cult classic film was created. That film, “Raiders of the Lost Ark: The...
Alumna receives 'genius grant' for advocacy on behalf of Native American victims of gender violence
Often called “genius grants,” MacArthur Fellowships are awarded to individuals who exhibit exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work. Deer is among 21 individuals in the 2014 class of MacArthur Fellows who...
Annual starlight walking tour of Mount Oread marks autumnal equinox Monday
Beginning at 5 a.m. at the intersection of Jayhawk Boulevard and 14th Street, retired professor Theodore Johnson will lead the annual autumnal equinox walking tour Monday, Sept. 22. The tour will continue until 11 a.m. Johnson conducted the first equinox tour, for the vernal equinox, in March 1991. ...
Chancellor, provost's office host forum on sexual assault
LAWRENCE — Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and the provost’s office hosted a panel discussion Thursday afternoon to encourage continued dialogue on how the University of Kansas community can work together to confront sexual assault. ...
Lecture to examine cost of Obama presidency to black politics
LAWRENCE – The election of Barack Obama as the nation’s first African-American president marked a historic moment in American politics. Yet the milestone may have come at a significant cost to African-American political progress. ...
KU announces August employees of the month
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has announced the August Employees of the Month. They are as follows: ...