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Colleges, districts collaborate to offer degree in three years
OVERLAND PARK – A new collaboration among the University of Kansas Edwards Campus, Johnson County Community College (JCCC) and the Blue Valley and Olathe school districts will enable secondary students to obtain a bachelor’s degree in information technology three years after high school graduation, officials announced. ...
Student earns honorable mention for prestigious Udall Scholarship
LAWRENCE — A theme of the University of Kansas strategic plan, Bold Aspirations, is Sustaining the Planet, Powering the World. The university’s commitment to environmental awareness and research is embodied by KU’s newest Udall Foundation honoree. Jenny Stern, a junior in ecology and evolutionary biology from Lawrence, received a Udall...
KPR, Audio-Reader leader Janet Campbell to retire
LAWRENCE – Janet Campbell, general manager of Kansas Public Radio and director of the Kansas Audio-Reader Network, announced today that she will retire Sept. 2. ...
Medicinal chemistry researcher receives fellowship
LAWRENCE — Barbara Timmermann, University of Kansas Distinguished Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, has been named a 2014 Fellow of the American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP), a distinction awarded to fewer than 5 percent of this professional organization’s members. ...
Dole Institute releases Oral History Project online
LAWRENCE — Concluding the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics 10th anniversary year, the Dole Institute celebrates the official online release of The Dole Institute Oral History Project, a collection of interviews documenting the life and career of former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole. ...
Brain imaging study examines second-language learning skills
LAWRENCE – With enough practice, some learners of a second language can process their new language as well as native speakers, research at the University of Kansas shows. ...
Twin study suggests language delay due more to nature than nurture
LAWRENCE — A study of 473 sets of twins followed since birth found that compared with single-born children, 47 percent of 24-month-old identical twins had language delay compared with 31 percent of nonidentical twins. Overall, twins had twice the rate of late language emergence of single-born children. None of the...
Study: Consolidating nonteaching services doesn't always equal savings
LAWRENCE — In an era when school districts are under near-constant pressure to improve budget efficiencies, they are increasingly looking at alternative solutions such as the consolidation of school districts, or, more recently, the consolidation of selected services. A study by a University of Kansas professor shows that consolidating noninstructional...
University community mourns death of Michael 'Mickey' Waxman
LAWRENCE – The University of Kansas lost a longtime member of the Lawrence campus July 16. ...
Media advisory: Experts available to comment on Ukraine-Russia relations following plane crash
LAWRENCE – Experts at the University of Kansas can provide insight into the international implications of a Malaysia Airlines plane shot down in eastern Ukraine Thursday. ...
University mourns loss of pre-law student Jack Lange
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas community is saddened by the death of John “Jack” Lange, a freshman from Lawrence studying pre-law. Lange died unexpectedly in his sleep July 13 at his home. ...
Mexican-American theater contributed to WWII effort, sense of citizenship
LAWRENCE – For Latino-Americans, World War II was a turning point in melding home country nationalism with recently acquired U.S. citizenship. A University of Kansas scholar has studied how those dynamics unfolded in Mexican-American theater during the 1940s. ...
University announces June 2014 employees of the month
Connie GentryStart date: Aug. 1, 2004Job title: Administrative assistant, School of Education ...
Media advisory: Finance professor to testify before U.S. Senate banking committee
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas finance professor Bob DeYoung will speak today before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protections. ...
Ancient packrat nests reveal how plants coped with past climate change
LAWRENCE — Scientists are greatly concerned about the effects that rising carbon dioxide concentration and temperature will have on organisms in the future. Fortunately, scientists can gain a sense for how organisms may respond to future climate change by determining how they responded to climate change events in the past. ...
Study: Interracial marriages involving Asian-Americans still can leave racial barriers
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas researcher says the high rate of interracial marriages among Asian-Americans should not simply be interpreted as a litmus test of assimilation for the minority group. ...
KU coordinates Fulbright orientation program
LAWRENCE — Twenty-five Fulbright international students are attending this year’s English Refinement for Graduate Studies Program for Fulbright Grantees at the University of Kansas to help them acclimate to academic life and American culture before they begin their graduate studies. The students arrived June 30. ...
Researcher gauges species' evolutionary lag time in face of an altered climate
LAWRENCE — Either change or disappear. ...
University adds new major in human sexuality
LAWRENCE – The University of Kansas has introduced a new major in human sexuality for undergraduate students, the first of its kind in the state. ...
KU community invited to visit with representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas community will have a chance to discuss international trade, culture, government affairs and related topics with a representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ...
Audio-Reader announcer Art Hadley honored
LAWRENCE — Art Hadley, longtime producer, engineer and announcer for the University of Kansas Audio-Reader Network, was recently recognized for his outstanding contributions to the International Association of Audio Information Services (IAAIS) at an awards ceremony during the IAAIS conference last month in Fort Wayne, Indiana. ...
CDR team presents research to Sprint executives
LAWRENCE — The sky is the limit in terms of using wireless technology in different applications, according to a team of 10 Center for Design Research students from the University of Kansas. They were invited in May by Sprint’s representatives to present new concepts for utilizing Sprint Velocity– a comprehensive...
Media advisory: KU experts available to discuss immigration issues
LAWRENCE — The recent surge of 52,000 women and children from Central America crossing the U.S. border with Mexico has overwhelmed U.S. immigration officials in the region. President Barack Obama on Tuesday has asked Congress to approve nearly $4 billion in emergency funding. Several University of Kansas faculty members are...
Professor finds intellectuals play important role in Mexico’s public sphere
LAWRENCE – Compared with the United States, the influence of intellectuals in Mexico’s social and political spheres has been extraordinary, although the danger of using that power has come with threats to position, freedom and life. ...
School of Education opens application window for undergraduate students entering professional programs
LAWRENCE — Each year the University of Kansas School of Education faculty and staff invite hundreds of pre-education students to complete the application process for admission to their individual professional programs. Pre-education students who entered as freshmen in fall 2013 have had almost a full academic year to decide which...
Edwards Campus broadens degree, certificate programs
OVERLAND PARK — Early-career professionals seeking advanced degrees or certifications have five new opportunities for higher education at the University of Kansas Edwards Campus beginning this fall. ...
KU expands accelerated master's programs with new track in classics
LAWRENCE – The University of Kansas continues to expand opportunities for students to complete advanced studies with the addition of an accelerated master’s degree program in classics. ...
Media advisory: KU news director announced
LAWRENCE — Erinn Barcomb-Peterson is the new director of news and media relations at the University of Kansas, effective today. She succeeds David Martin, who had been in the role on an interim basis. ...
Women’s leadership program welcomes international, in-state students to KU
Editor's note: Geographic regions updated in August 2021. ...
‘Lifemapper’ shows where Earth’s organisms live today and might go tomorrow
LAWRENCE — Scientists in the field have collected voucher specimens since the 19th century. Today, most sit in research institutions around the world “dried, mounted, pickled, preserved, frozen and stuffed,” according to the creators of Lifemapper, an online species-distribution tool created at the University of Kansas. ...