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Students, alumni take top honors for KU Homecoming spirit
LAWRENCE —The 102nd Homecoming at the University of Kansas concluded Sept. 27 after a week that included events for KU students and the Lawrence community. ...
KU to host 20th annual African studies conference
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas will be host to another homecoming this week when the Mid-America Alliance for African Studies (MAAAS) brings its 20th annual conference to the Lawrence campus on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 3-4. ...
KU to honor 185 seniors from Shawnee Mission high schools
LAWRENCE — Students from five Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, Oct. 8, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
KU to honor 87 high school seniors from 4 North Central Kansas counties
LAWRENCE — Students from 13 Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, Oct. 8, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
Series of events to honor WWI, today's veterans, military
LAWRENCE – From poetry readings to symphony performances, the University of Kansas will host a series of events throughout the fall to commemorate World War I and pay tribute to today’s veterans and military. ...
Media advisory: Expert available to discuss India prime minister Modi's visit to America
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas professor is available to comment on the significance of new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first visit to the United States. ...
KU to honor 68 high school seniors from 7 western Kansas counties
LAWRENCE — Students from 10 Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, Oct. 8, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment. ...
Professor selected for Health Care Foundation Leadership Academy
The Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City (HCF) has announced that Shannon Criss, associate professor of architecture, will be one of 15 participants in next year’s Healthy Communities Leadership Academy. ...
2014 ExCEL Award winners announced at Homecoming game
LAWRENCE — Two University of Kansas seniors received the 24th annual Excellence in Community, Education and Leadership Awards during halftime of the KU-Texas homecoming football game Sept. 27 in Memorial Stadium. ...
Freshman class at Kansas’ flagship university grows for third straight year
LAWRENCE — Enrollment numbers released today show that for the third year in a row, the University of Kansas freshman class has grown. ...
Geosynthetics society bestows highest honor on engineering professor
LAWRENCE — A career dedicated to researching and developing materials to help strengthen and stabilize paved and unpaved roads has earned international recognition for a professor from the University of Kansas School of Engineering. ...
Lecture to focus on sustainability, lifestyle changes for nomadic peoples
LAWRENCE – The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas is sponsoring a multimedia presentation by Sas Carey, registered nurse and director of Nomadicare, a nonprofit organization that supports the sustainability and cultural survival of nomadic peoples by harmonizing traditional and modern medicine and documenting nomadic life...
Prestigious Chancellors Club Teaching Professorships awarded to faculty
LAWRENCE — As part of KU’s 2014 Homecoming Weekend, a pair of University of Kansas scientists — one in microbiology and another in pathology — will join a group of 10 KU faculty and four colleagues at the Medical Center who share a special distinction. They have been recognized for...
KU Endowment elects new chair, 5 new trustees
LAWRENCE — KU Endowment’s Board of Trustees elected The Hon. Deanell Reece Tacha as new board chair and Charles E. Heath as vice chair, and elected five other University of Kansas alumni as trustees at today’s annual meeting of the association’s Board of Trustees. Tacha, the first woman to chair...
Genetic modifier affects colon tumor formation
LAWRENCE — Unexpected results from an ongoing experiment in the lab of Kristi Neufeld, co-leader of the Cancer Biology Program at the University of Kansas Cancer Center, led to a potentially important discovery that could have an effect on how cancer researchers test anti-cancer therapies in mice as well as...
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. ...
Reality show on child beauty pageants sends damaging message to young girls, research finds
LAWRENCE — “Toddlers and Tiaras,” a TLC reality television show and guilty pleasure for many, sends confusing and damaging messages to its pint-sized participants, new research finds. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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...
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. ...
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...