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Scholars available to discuss protests over 43 missing students in Mexico
LAWRENCE – Scholars at the University of Kansas are available to provide insight into the disappearance of 43 college students in Mexico and the outbreak of protests that have followed. ...
Visual art students wrap up commissioned public sculpture project
LAWRENCE – For the past four semesters, more than 50 visual art students, faculty and staff have been working on a commissioned work for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. The sculpture, “An Abounding Asset: A Diligent Reserve,” became a permanent display Nov. 15 as the Reserve celebrates its...
Media advisory: Experts can comment on allegations of social media misuse in political campaigns
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas faculty members are available to speak with media about reports questioning the possibility of violation of campaign laws through use of social media. On Monday, CNN and other media outlets reported that the Republican party and outside groups set up Twitter accounts in a way...
Topeka Public Schools teams with KU researchers to secure $1.8M education award
TOPEKA — As part of an initiative to enhance and strengthen programs that integrate the arts into elementary- and middle-school curricula, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement has granted a four-year, $1.8 million award to a collaborative project that teams Topeka Public Schools with two University...
Georgia O’Keeffe, other artists inspired by New Mexico subject of exhibition, book
LAWRENCE – Georgia O’Keeffe may be New Mexico’s iconic artist, but a new exhibition and book curated by a University of Kansas professor show that her works were not the first, or only art, to draw inspiration from the region. ...
Architecture lecturer receives lifetime achievement award
LAWRENCE — Department of Architecture Lecturer Frank Zilm has been awarded the American College of Healthcare Architects’ Lifetime Achievement Award for 2014. The ACHA’s Hamilton Medal is the highest honor it can bestow. It is conferred by the organization’s Board of Regents in recognition of a significant body of work...
Study: Historically black colleges, universities support journalism accreditation
LAWRENCE — Historically black colleges and universities overwhelmingly support the idea of accreditation for their journalism and mass communication programs, even though meeting the standards can place significant financial and human strain upon them, a study from the University of Kansas School of Journalism shows. ...
Dole Institute to host Richard Norton Smith on new biography
LAWRENCE – The Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas will welcome back former Dole Institute director, historian and author Richard Norton Smith, who will discuss his new biography, “On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller.”...
KU, K-State field stations key sites in 30-year NSF project
Monitoring towers equipped with environmental sensors are being installed this fall at KU, and K-State field sites are expected to be drawing provisional data by spring 2015. ...
CERN scientists to participate in arts/sciences roundup
LAWRENCE — International scientists and artists, including representatives from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), will come together this week at the University of Kansas to discuss how their disciplines stimulate and inspire one another. The roundtable, Excavating the Universe: Physics Interacts with the Arts, will take place from...
Architecture alumnus and futurist to speak
LAWRENCE — One of Forbes magazine's Next-Gen Innovators for 2014, Jordan Brandt, will present “Teaching Our Machines to Design and Make Things” at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 21, at The Forum at Marvin Hall. ...
NSF grant to research how children learn an indigenous language in Mexico
LAWRENCE – To better understand how children acquire languages, a University of Kansas professor is visiting remote Mexican villages to study toddlers who are learning to speak a fading indigenous language. ...
Authority on U.S.-Russian relations to visit
LAWRENCE — Victoria Zhuravleva will present “Russia and the United States: Images of Each Other in the Ukrainian Crisis” at noon Tuesday, Nov. 18, in 318 Bailey Hall. The talk is one of the KU Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREES) weekly Brownbag lecture series. Zhuravleva is...
GIS Day to explore innovations in mapping technology
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas will host an event Wednesday, Nov. 19, that is part of a worldwide celebration that showcases recent developments and practical applications in geographic information systems, or GIS. ...
Solar energy company seeks job applicants
LAWRENCE — Oakland-based Sungevity Inc. is coming to Kansas City and is looking for qualified candidates interested in green careers to fill positions at the company’s new sales and service center, slated to open January 2015. Sungevity has partnered with The University of Kansas (KU) Career Services Alliance and selected...
KU to host Big 12 universities water workshop
LAWRENCE – Water use – and abuse – has emerged in recent years as a major challenge in Kansas, affecting all aspects of life in the state. It is a focus for multidisciplinary research at the University of Kansas and is the subject of a statewide policy initiative, the 50-Year...
Kansas Geological Survey to test use of CO2 in oil recovery and storing it underground
LAWRENCE — The Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) at the University of Kansas is moving into a new phase of a multiyear study to test the safety and efficacy of injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial sources into the ground to produce hard-to-reach oil and to permanently store CO2 deep underground. ...
Architecture professor wins Aga Khan Fellowship
LAWRENCE — Farhan Karim, assistant professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Kansas, has received a research fellowship from the Aga Khan Foundation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During the spring semester he will be at MIT continuing his research on the influence of European and...
Research reveals the real cause of death for some starburst galaxies
LAWRENCE — Like hedonistic rock stars that live by the “better to burn out than to fade away” credo, certain galaxies flame out in a blaze of glory. Astronomers have struggled to grasp why these young “starburst” galaxies — ones that are very rapidly forming new stars from cold molecular...
Media Advisory: Former NASA astronaut available to discuss Philae/Rosetta comet mission
LAWRENCE — Steven Hawley, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas and former NASA astronaut, is available to speak with reporters about the European Space Agency’s successful landing Wednesday of a spacecraft on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, some 317 million miles from Earth. ...
First of three candidates for dean of Social Welfare to visit KU
LAWRENCE — The first of three candidates for dean of the School of Social Welfare will visit the University of Kansas next week to visit the campus community and give a public presentation. ...
Central District Plan driving transformation of KU's modern center
LAWRENCE — From the building that welcomed KU’s first class in 1866, Old North College, to the area west of Allen Fieldhouse today, the center of the University of Kansas campus has shifted significantly in 148 years. ...
Caboni selected to participate in Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leadership
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas vice chancellor for public affairs is one of two dozen senior leaders selected for the inaugural class of fellows in an innovative new program that will engage participants by exploring the leadership challenges that confront today’s universities. ...
Project seeks to discover aspects of early Jewish childhood
LAWRENCE — Childhood in the West today is often determined by age. However, in Roman and Jewish antiquity a family's social status likely influenced whether a young boy or girl spent time going to school and playing with other children at all or if they would be required to start...
KU Field Station will host memorial fun run Nov. 15
LAWRENCE — An all-ages 5K fun run/walk will take place at the University of Kansas Field Station, 350 Wild Horse Road, north of Lawrence, at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 15. ...
Study: Wealth transfers to grown children perpetuate inequality
LAWRENCE — It may not come as a surprise that high-income families pass on more money to their children than their low-income peers, but new research from the University of Kansas shows that these families are giving much more to their kids even after they leave home and for different...
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute to celebrate 10th anniversary
LAWRENCE – The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Kansas will mark its 10-year anniversary with a free celebration from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, at the Lied Center of Kansas Pavilion. The event is open to the public and carries the theme 10 & Then:...
Global Entrepreneurship Week event to focus on creativity, entrepreneurial mindset
LAWRENCE — Creativity is an overlooked yet vital trait of the entrepreneurial mindset. Entrepreneurs are tasked with uncovering creative solutions to some of the most difficult challenges of our time. ...
Experts can discuss Loretta Lynch's nomination as U.S. attorney general
LAWRENCE —University of Kansas scholars are available to discuss President Barack Obama's nomination of Loretta Lynch to be the next U.S. attorney general. ...
Media advisory: Expert discusses Catalonia independence movement in Spain
LAWRENCE — On Sunday, 81 percent of the more than 2 million Catalans voted in a non-binding referendum for independence from Spain. Leaders of the independence movement hope it is a prelude to a full secession. ...