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University mourns death of KLETC’s Mark Bomgardner
YODER — The University of Kansas has lost a key member of the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center. Mark Bomgardner, deputy assistant director, died Sunday, July 27, at Reno County Hospice House in Hutchinson. ...
Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center announces July graduates
YODER – Ottawa Police Department Chief Dennis Butler congratulated 57 new law enforcement officers during their graduation from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC) Friday, July 11. ...
University mourns professor emeritus Dennis Saleebey
LAWRENCE — Dennis Saleebey, professor emeritus from the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, died July 16. He had been a part of the KU community since he joined the faculty in 1987. He retired from the university in 2006. ...
Center produces videos on preserving native health traditions
LAWRENCE — When older generations pass on, they often take with them knowledge that hasn’t been documented anywhere else. A recent University of Kansas graduate and research assistant is completing a video project in which elders of her native Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska share unique perspectives on healing,...
Engineering team to compete in Collegiate Traffic Bowl Championship
LAWRENCE — A team from the University of Kansas School of Engineering has earned a spot among the top minds in traffic engineering who will compete next month for the Collegiate Traffic Bowl Grand Championship. Nine teams will gather from Aug. 10-13 in Seattle for the event, sponsored by Institute...
$16M gift honors late alumnus Don Slawson
LAWRENCE — The family of University of Kansas alumnus Donald Slawson has made a $16 million lead gift for construction of a hall to be located in KU’s planned Earth, Energy and Environment Center. Slawson Hall will honor Don Slawson’s longstanding dedication to KU, to higher education and to the...
Researchers help update tool to assist those with intellectual disabilities
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas researchers are at the forefront of efforts to develop standardized measures of the support needs of children and adults with intellectual disability. Such tools represent a new way of thinking about how to enable people with disabilities to actively participate in the community and engage...
Student wins NOAA Hollings Scholarship
LAWRENCE — Joe Lilek, a University of Kansas student, has been awarded the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship. Lilek, an atmospheric science major and theatre minor from Bethesda, Maryland, was selected from a pool of around 900 applicants as one of 100 scholars. ...
NASA grant will help KU researcher reveal polar ice details
LAWRENCE — Researchers working to measure and predict sea level rise based on changes to ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will soon have a new tool to use in their assessments. ...
Researcher looks at regulatory muddle in wake of Deepwater Horizon disaster
LAWRENCE — In April 2010, a catastrophic explosion sank the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, operated for the BP company some 50 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven rig workers lost their lives, and oil gushed freely into Gulf waters for the next 87 days —...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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...
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...
University community mourns death of Michael 'Mickey' Waxman
LAWRENCE – The University of Kansas lost a longtime member of the Lawrence campus July 16. ...
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...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
Researcher gauges species' evolutionary lag time in face of an altered climate
LAWRENCE — Either change or disappear. ...
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. ...