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High school competitors to share secret agent devices at engineering contest
LAWRENCE — Hundreds of high school students from around Kansas and the Kansas City metro area are scheduled to compete Tuesday, Nov. 5, in the University of Kansas School of Engineering High School Design Competition. ...
Study shows that parenting improves with coaching via cell phone
LAWRENCE — In the first randomized trial of the effects of cell phone use, University of Kansas and Notre Dame researchers found that when parenting coaches texted and called mothers who had participated in a home-based parenting program, they were much more likely than the other mothers in the study...
GM North America president to speak Nov. 6
LAWRENCE — A top executive with General Motors Co. will speak with University of Kansas students about product and career development at the School of Engineering early next month. ...
Researcher extends study of human migration in isolated Aleutian Islands
LAWRENCE — Seasick, cold and lugging around 3,000 pounds of equipment during her first research venture upon Alaska’s Aleutian Islands 20 years ago, Dixie West nonetheless fell in love with unearthing history in the frigid, remote archipelago. ...
University mourns Calder Pickett, professor emeritus of journalism
LAWRENCE – University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and Dean of Journalism Ann Brill released the following statements regarding the death of Journalism Professor Emeritus Calder Pickett:...
Professional clothing drive in November benefits KU students
LAWRENCE – Delta Epsilon Iota (DEI), a career-focused honor society at the University of Kansas, is hosting its annual professional clothing drive during the month of November to benefit KU students in need of professional attire. ...
KU film student premieres short at Honduran festival
Hispano Durón, an international PhD student in Film and Media Studies, recently screened his new short film “El Lugar de la Cruz” at the II El Heraldo Short Film Festival in Honduras. ...
Researchers show excessive student loan debt causes young people to fall behind in saving, investing for future
LAWRENCE — The American Dream has always held that if one works hard he or she can be successful and attain sufficient wealth to live a financially comfortable life. Higher education has always been understood to be a crucial link in the chain between effort and attainment. Increasingly, however, college...
Pawlicki to retire from Continuing Education
LAWRENCE – Fred Pawlicki, executive director of Continuing Education at the University of Kansas since May 2006, will retire Jan. 17. He has worked at KU for more than 21 years. ...
KU to screen cult classic horror film shot on campus
LAWRENCE – The University of Kansas Department of Film and Media Studies will host a screening of Herk Harvey’s cult classic film “Carnival of Souls.”...
Researcher looks at the enduring impact of land use on an ecosystem
LAWRENCE — Land use by past generations of humans imprints a legacy on the landscape, even decades after an ecosystem may appear to have recovered. ...
The art of the jack-o-lantern
LAWRENCE – It isn’t so unusual to see “knife-wielding zombies” in Marvin Hall. Usually they’re just sleep-deprived architecture and design students intent on finishing their projects before deadline. ...
Classics professor elected to board of American Academy
LAWRENCE – University of Kansas professor of classics Anthony Corbeill has been elected to the board of trustees of the American Academy in Rome, a leading center for independent study and advanced research in the arts and humanities. ...
Aerospace student's design earns second place at international competition
LAWRENCE — A 2013 University of Kansas School of Engineering graduate earned international acclaim for his performance in a prestigious aerospace design competition. ...
Professor creates course, publishes research to help educators fight 'terroristic bullying,' troublesome behaviors
LAWRENCE — October is National Anti-bullying Month. While educators across the country are working on ways to fight the problem, a University of Kansas professor is working to train future teachers and those already in schools to curb bullying. ...
DNA signaling, repair topic of annual lecture series
LAWRENCE — DNA signaling and repair will be the topics of the sixth biennial Richard L. Schowen Lectures in Bioorganic Chemistry next month. ...
Med school No. 2 in production of family doctors
The University of Kansas School of Medicine ranks No. 2 in a study of medical schools' production of graduates who go into family medicine. ...
University announces New Self Graduate Fellows
LAWRENCE — Six doctoral students have been selected to receive the University of Kansas prestigious Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship as they begin the 2013-2014 academic year. The 30 current Self Graduate Fellows are among 146 students who have benefited from the fellowship since it was established. ...
KU researcher honored as namesake of ancient insect-eating mammal
LAWRENCE — Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Denver Museum of Nature & Science recently have published a description of a fossilized 50-million-year-old insect-eating mammal, about the size of a shrew or small hedgehog, naming it Nyctitherium krishtalkai after Leonard Krishtalka, director of the Biodiversity Institute at the...
CDR students investigate glucose-monitoring car for Bayer, Sprint
LAWRENCE — This fall, students enrolled in ADS 560, an advanced design studio course at the Center for Design Research (CDR), will investigate the integration of Bayer HealthCare’s blood-glucose monitoring technology with the on-board computer system of an automobile. Wireless technology from Sprint would enable data to be exchanged between...
Student wins state disability advocacy award
LAWRENCE — Amanda Thompson, a University of Kansas senior from Lincoln who is majoring in speech-language-hearing, has won the 2013 Michael Lechner Advocacy Award from the Kansas Commission on Disability Concerns. The annual award recognizes a Kansan with a disability who has effectively advocated for changes in his or her...
Local economic development project makes KU a 'Community-Connected Campus' award finalist
LAWRENCE — A coalition of economic development partners, led by the University of Kansas, came together to launch the state’s largest business incubator system: the Bioscience & Technology Business Center (BTBC). That partnership is about to get an opportunity to showcase its success in a national spotlight. ...
Shutdown is over, but polarizing parties live on, KU scholar says
LAWRENCE — Sixteen days probably never seemed so long to the politicians sparring and federal employees furloughed by the U.S. government shutdown this month. ...
Colorado poets will give reading Nov. 7
LAWRENCE — Matthew Cooperman, poetry editor for the Colorado Review, and Aby Kaupang, author of "Little 'g' God Grows Tired of Me" (2013), will give a reading Nov. 7 at the University of Kansas. ...
Pulitzer Prize winner to present Richard W. Gunn Lecture
LAWRENCE — Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and Washington Post columnist Michael Dirda will present the Richard W. Gunn Memorial Lecture, “A Literary Life: Twenty-Five Years at the Washington Post Book World,” from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, in the Big 12 Room of the Kansas Union....
Guth will not return to classroom this year
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas Associate Professor David Guth, who was put on indefinite administrative leave Sept. 20 after posting comments on his personal Twitter account that caused disruptions in the university’s learning environment, will not return to classroom duties this year, the university announced today. ...
Media advisory update: KU delaying campus flyovers planned for Oct. 23
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Marketing Communications has delayed plans for Lawrence campus flyovers on Wednesday, Oct. 23. ...
Author: Understanding tradition key to political, legal relationships with ever-changing China
LAWRENCE — The idea of transparency is central to Western law and policy. Lawmakers and politicians regularly tout the importance of being clear in why and how laws are made, and in what specific behavior those laws require or prohibit. Things are somewhat different, however, in one of the largest and...
Scholars to probe water quantity, quality issues at law symposium
LAWRENCE – Leading scholars and thinkers on water law and environmental law will address the critical issues facing water quantity and quality at the 2013 Kansas Law Review Symposium, “Waters of the United States: Adapting Law for Degradation and Drought.”...
Professor's new book examines deep roots of opposition to female rulers
LAWRENCE — She hasn’t officially thrown her name in the ring yet, but political commentators are already musing that “Clinton fatigue” may hurt Hillary Clinton’s chances of being elected president in 2016. ...