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KU honors Employees of the Year
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas recognized its Employees of the Year and presented the 2013-2014 Team Award on May 7 in the Kansas Union. Chancellor Bernadette Gray Little and Jeffrey S. Vitter, provost and executive vice chancellor and Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor, were present at the luncheon to...
Louise Byrd Graduate Educators announced
LAWRENCE — Eva Horn, professor in the Department of Special Education and investigator for the Lifespan Institute for Developmental Disabilities, and Victor Frost, Dan F. Servey Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, are the 2014 recipients of the Louise Byrd Graduate Educator Award. The award...
KU seniors honor high school teachers with Wolfe Family Teaching Awards
LAWRENCE — Even though it’s been several years since University of Kansas seniors have set foot in high school teachers’ classrooms, the influence of many of those educators is not forgotten. ...
Business school launches part-time Master of Accounting program
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas School of Business will begin offering a Working Professional Master of Accounting program at the Edwards Campus in Overland Park this fall. ...
Professor studies connection between evolutionary biology, economic success
LAWRENCE — With the emergence in the past three decades of fields such as behavioral genetics, scientists and economists have examined ways to transfer ideas about how organisms succeed biologically or reproductively – known as fitness – to achieve economic success – and the reverse. ...
Student’s project helps paralyzed uncle, wins honor
LAWRENCE — A stroke in 2002 left Henry Evans a quadriplegic and unable to speak, but his mind was untouched. His nephew, Henry Clever, a senior in the University of Kansas School of Engineering in mechanical engineering, developed a groundbreaking device to help his uncle master his biggest challenges –...
KU awards three Wounded Warrior Scholarships
LAWRENCE — 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...
Public Safety Office announces 2013 crime statistics
LAWRENCE — 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
LAWRENCE – Jonathan Earle, director of the University Honors Program, has been named dean of the Honors College at Louisiana State University. The appointment is effective Aug. 15. ...
Fulbright Scholar to present talk on tissue engineering
LAWRENCE — A leading scientist from one of the world’s largest and most famous groups in tissue engineering will offer insight on the use of green and environmentally friendly technologies for biomaterials processing during a lecture today at the University of Kansas School of Engineering. ...
Professor helps Kenyan community develop dictionary to preserve Ekegusii language
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas anthropology researcher has helped community members in western Kenya develop the first dictionary of their local Ekegusii language. ...
Thousands of World War I era art pieces gifted to Spencer Museum of Art
LAWRENCE – 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. ...
Social media, 'forced crowdsourcing' have given fans unprecedented power in decisions to fire coaches
LAWRENCE — 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...
Donald K. Alderson Memorial Award and Rusty Leffel Concerned Student awards announced
LAWRENCE — 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...
Natural History Museum welcomes new bee colony to exhibit
LAWRENCE — 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. ...
KU to recognize retirees at luncheon
LAWRENCE — 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. ...
Architecture students completing fifth design-build project at KU Field Station
LAWRENCE — 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...
Scholarship honors ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ star
LAWRENCE — 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. ...
Research points way to 'holy grail' therapy for autoimmune diseases
LAWRENCE — 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...
Hall Center announces Humanities Lecture Series speakers for 2014-2015
LAWRENCE – 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...
School of Engineering will honor two for distinguished careers
LAWRENCE — Two people with a long history of outstanding contributions to the University of Kansas School of Engineering will receive the school’s highest honor today, May 8. ...
Researcher weighs contributing factors to inequality in K.C. schools
LAWRENCE — 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. ...
Stop Day tour will offer fresh perspective of campus landmarks
LAWRENCE — 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. ...
Seniors honored with Wright, Dillard University Awards
LAWRENCE — 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. ...
Film and Media Studies to present Lifetime Achievement Award
LAWRENCE – 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
LAWRENCE — 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
LAWRENCE – 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,...
Professor: Free-trade agreement hampered by lack of transparency
LAWRENCE — 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...
Trio of jurists to receive law school’s Distinguished Alumni Award
LAWRENCE — 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
LAWRENCE — 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...