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Steel bridge team advances to nationals
The University of Kansas School of Engineering steel bridge team earned a spot at the national competition thanks to a strong showing at the American Society of Civil Engineers Mid-Continent Conference regional conference April 4-6. The Jayhawks placed third overall in the 12-team field to earn their spot in the...
Recreation Advisory Board launches bicycle rental program
The University of Kansas Recreation Advisory Board, along with Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center, will launch the new Bike Rental Program on Thursday, April 11. ...
Hall Center’s 2013-2014 Sias Graduate Fellows announced
Josh Nygren, a doctoral candidate in history from Marinette, Wis., and Stephanie Krehbiel, a doctoral candidate in American studies from Lawrence, have been selected as the recipients of the Richard and Jeannette Sias Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities for 2013-14. The two winners will each spend a semester in residence...
University Daily Kansan named 'Best in the Nation' for third consecutive year
For the third consecutive year, the University Daily Kansan’s advertising staff was named “Best the Nation” by the College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers Inc. The ad staff was in San Diego last week at the CNBAM Convention. ...
$1.5 million clinical trial will test book reading to treat language impairment
A University of Kansas researcher has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to conduct a clinical trial of book reading to help kindergarten children with Specific Language Impairment learn words. ...
CTE to offer teaching workshop for faculty, staff, GTAs
The Center for Teaching Excellence has organized a workshop with education expert Pat Hutchings, "Improving Student Learning: The Power (and Limits) of Evidence," which will be 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. April 18 in the Kansas Union's Alderson Auditorium. ...
Engineering's Flapjacks for Philanthropy set for April 20
A Lawrence-area nonprofit organization that helps children in the foster care system is the beneficiary of an annual breakfast fundraiser at the University of Kansas School of Engineering. ...
Professor receives Hall Center's first Scholars on Site award
The Hall Center for the Humanities has announced that Beverly Mack, University of Kansas professor of African and African-American studies, received its 2013 Scholars on Site award. ...
New staffer joins the Dynamic Learning Maps project
The Dynamic Learning Maps project at the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation (CETE), a research center within the Achievement and Assessment Institute at the University of Kansas, has added a new associate director, Meagan Karvonen, a longtime researcher in the field of alternate assessments. Beginning this spring on a...
Book examines how climate change affects indigenous people
change’s effects are starting to be felt around the world, and indigenous populations are in many cases among the first to have their ways of life disrupted. Yet these populations are often powerless, both politically and economically, to convince those with the ability to do something about it to do...
University Dance Company brings performance and classes to Salina
Movement drives the University Dance Company of the University of Kansas. This month the company’s movement will take it all the way to Salina. ...
Department of Architecture announces new leader
John Gaunt, dean of the School of Architecture, Design and Planning, has announced that Paola Sanguinetti, associate professor, will become the Department of Architecture’s new chair. ...
Media advisory: Researcher available to talk about career, legacy of Margaret Thatcher
Bailey, Charles W. Battey Distinguished Professor of Modern British History and director of the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas, is available to discuss the death of Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher, Great Britain’s first, and thus far only, female prime minister, died Monday morning after suffering a...
Banquet to honor outstanding women at KU
The Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity at the University of Kansas will host its annual Women’s Recognition Banquet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in the Kansas Union ballroom. The induction of six new members of the KU Women’s Hall of Fame will highlight a program honoring...
Langston Hughes visiting professor to present lecture on civil rights movement
David G. Holmes, the spring 2013 Langston Hughes Visiting Professor, will present “Occupy This: Political Representation, Prophetic Voices, Popular Culture and the Contested Rhetorical Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement” at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union. The lecture is free and open...
KU researcher to focus on the impact of film festivals
scholar and KU professor Tamara Falicov, the politics, economics and demographics behind film festivals are every bit as intriguing as the films themselves. ...
Microsoft researcher to speak at next Idea Cafe
The Commons continues its programming for Data & Democracy with an Idea Café, led by Nancy Baym, principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England and former associate professor of communication studies at KU. ...
Engineering students prepare concrete canoe for regional contest
A new ingredient is proving to make it much smoother sailing this year for University of Kansas School Engineering students participating in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) concrete canoe competition. ...
Lied Center leader to retire
Tim Van Leer, executive director of the Lied Center of Kansas, today announced that he will retire at the end of 2013. ...
KU steel bridge team prepares for engineering endeavor
A team of six University of Kansas School of Engineering students is putting the finishing touches on its entry for the 2013 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) steel bridge competition, set for April 4-6 on the campus of Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Ill. ...
Researchers examine prevalence, challenges of cyberbullying
As long as there have been classrooms, there have been bullies, and teachers have been expected to recognize and stop such behavior. However, the role of teachers in preventing cyberbullying, a means of bullying through electronic devices, is a difficult question to address. In fact, a recent University of Kansas...
Students selected to attend Clinton Global Initiative University
Two students from the University of Kansas have been selected to attend the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative University at Washington University in St. Louis. The sixth annual CGI U meeting will be April 5-7. Both students are members of the University Honors Program. ...
Annual crime figures reflect Public Safety Office's commitment to curb fake ID use
Increased efforts to curb use of fake IDs and a change in the way drunken-driving cases were counted led to a rise in offenses reported to the KU Public Safety Office, according to data released today.Public Safety handled 818 criminal offenses in 2012 and participated in a multiagency, grant-funded fake...
John Hadl to chair Audio-Reader Golf Classic
Renowned University of Kansas and professional football player John Hadl will show his support for Audio-Reader by chairing the fourth annual Audio-Reader Golf Classic for the second year. The tournament will take place May 20 at Alvamar Country Club. ...
Researchers seek to promote positive development in Latino youths
Two University of Kansas professors have landed a grant to address common health concerns and promote positive youth development among urban Latino youth. ...
KU Army ROTC to host 19th annual Ranger Buddy Competition
University of Kansas Army ROTC Cadets will be among 300 students from across the United States challenging them to find out just how physically and mentally strong they can be. ...
Undergraduate students to present research at Capitol
University of Kansas students from the Lawrence campus and KU Medical Center will join their peers from other Kansas Board of Regents public four-year universities in Topeka for the first annual Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol. The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, April...
Two KU technologies to be featured at entrepreneurship symposium
The University of Kansas will be well-represented at one of the nation’s most exclusive venture capital events. ...
KU awards first Wounded Warrior scholarships
The University of Kansas’ Office of Graduate Military Programs has announced two students have received the University’s first-ever Wounded Warrior Scholarship. ...
KU Edwards Campus adds two project management degrees
— Rising demand for project management expertise in science, information technology, manufacturing, business, construction and engineering has prompted the University of Kansas to add two master’s degrees programs for working adults. ...