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Students win statewide math competition
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas undergraduate students took first and second place in the team competition as well as individual awards at the ninth Kansas Collegiate Math Competition, which was March 29 at Emporia State University. The competition is part of the yearly meeting of the Kansas section of the...
Center announces 2014 Sustainability Leadership Awards
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Center for Sustainability will present the 2014 Sustainability Leadership Awards on Tuesday, April 22, as part of KU's Earth Day festivities. The event will take place at 3 p.m. on the Dance Pavilion by Potter Lake and is open to the public. ...
Sports Illustrated writer to participate in 2014 Budig Writing Professor event
LAWRENCE — Scott Reinardy, associate professor at the University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, will host the 2014 Budig Writing Professor event at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, in the Clarkson Gallery of Stauffer-Flint Hall. "Inside the Writer’s Room: A Conversation with Sports Illustrated’s...
Shakespeare on immigration: Professor examines political themes in Bard's plays
LAWRENCE — Today’s immigration policy debate has confounded Congress and state leaders for decades and seems to be more divisive than ever before. Perhaps for some perspective and insight, why not turn to a great voice from the past? A great unifier — like William Shakespeare? ...
Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access to host March for a Voice
LAWRENCE — As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access (IOA) will host the inaugural March for a Voice event at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, on the lawn in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall. The purpose of the event is to spread awareness about...
University mourns Wojciech Lesnikowski, Distinguished Professor of Architecture
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and John Gaunt, dean of the School of Architecture, Design & Planning, released the following statements regarding the death of Wojciech Lesnikowski, the Don Hatch Distinguished Professor of Architecture. ...
Study will help counties cope with deficient bridges
LAWRENCE — Deteriorated or outdated bridges along the less-traveled back roads of Kansas are a budget dilemma for county leaders throughout the state. ...
Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to anthropology professor
LAWRENCE – A University of Kansas professor who studies Chinese Inner Asia as an area of linguistic and social convergence was named a 2014 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. ...
KPR wraps up spring membership drive with more than $275,000 in pledges (Opens in new window)
LAWRENCE – Kansas Public Radio’s spring membership drive ended Friday with a flourish of classical music. ...
Chancellor announces 2014 faculty promotions, tenure
LAWRENCE — Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little has approved promotion and the award of tenure where indicated for 67 individuals at the University of Kansas Lawrence and Edwards campuses and 58 individuals at the University of Kansas Medical Center. ...
Study: Many states not meeting plans to reduce restrictions for students in special education classes
LAWRENCE — Many states are not meeting their goals to improve access to general education settings for students with disabilities as required by federal law, a new report co-authored by a University of Kansas professor shows. The 2004 Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Education Act, known as IDEA, requires states to...
Faculty experts, resources available for coverage of Shakespeare's 450th birthday
LAWRENCE — Wednesday, April 23, will mark the 450th anniversary of the date scholars commonly attribute to William Shakespeare’s birth. ...
Concrete canoe team picks up steam for regional competition
LAWRENCE — The choppy waters and stiff breeze that persist at Lone Star Lake, 10 miles southwest of the University of Kansas campus, aren’t a typical laboratory setting. But for this year’s concrete canoe team at the School of Engineering, there’s no better place for research. ...
Lecturer to speak on future of higher education
LAWRENCE — David Krakauer, director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, will deliver a lecture titled “The Future of the University” at 8 p.m. today, April 17, at The Commons. Krakauer will then participate in a panel discussion that poses the challenge Dare to Design the University of the Future. ...
Architecture lecturer wins illustration award
LAWRENCE — A drawing by Anne Patterson, Department of Architecture lecturer, has been granted an award of excellence by the American Society of Architectural Illustrators. ...
Media advisory: Information on obtaining credentials for Bob Dole visit April 22
LAWRENCE — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole will visit the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas on Tuesday, April 22. There will be a public open house starting at approximately 11 a.m. and ending at noon in Hansen Hall. ...
Research to play major role in women’s empowerment initiative
LAWRENCE — Mayor Sly James, Kansas City, Mo., announced last month the new WE Women’s Empowerment initiative to get more women into leadership roles, whether it’s on city boards, task forces and commissions or in business settings. ...
Professor leading study on connection between student journalism, civic activity
LAWRENCE — While anecdotal evidence supports a link between journalism and civic activity, a University of Kansas professor is leading a study to determine whether that is in fact the case among high school journalists and to determine how civically active students who take part in school media plan to...
Water Vision Meeting planned at University of Kansas
LAWRENCE — At the Governor’s Conference on the Future of Water in Kansas last October, Gov. Sam Brownback issued a call to action for a vision that ensures Kansas water priorities are met, both now and in the future. ...
Mini College registration open for rediscovering the student experience
LAWRENCE – Summer camp isn’t just for the kids. The University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invites adults interested in lifelong learning to register for Mini College 2014, which will be June 2-5. ...
International area studies centers to present peace, conflict educator workshop
LAWRENCE — International area studies centers will present an interdisciplinary educator workshop April 26 titled Children of Conflict, Children of Peace, at the Edwards Campus in Overland Park . This event is free and open to educators, students and interested members of the public. ...
Professor examines father figures in literature as mediators of cultural boundaries
LAWRENCE —Politicians often talk about the importance of “securing our borders.” ...
Using strong lasers, investigators observe frenzy of electrons in a new material
LAWRENCE — A research team at the University of Kansas has used high-powered lasers to track the speed and movement of electrons inside an innovative material that is just one atom thick. Their findings are published in the current issue of ACS Nano, a peer-reviewed journal focused on nanoscience. ...
Researchers pioneer telemedicine training for rural parents of children with autism
LAWRENCE — In 2004 University of Kansas researchers Linda Heitzman-Powell and Jay Buzhardt had the bold idea of training parents of children with autism to use an intervention based on the science of applied behavior analysis (ABA) to help them increase their children’s independent skills and reduce problem behaviors. ...
KU scholars see value in preserving Africa’s endangered languages
LAWRENCE – Much has been made of Africa’s endangered and threatened animals – uniquely beautiful creatures such as the Black rhino, Western lowland gorilla and African elephant – but what of the continent’s endangered languages? ...
Grain elevators led double life in shaping modern architecture
LAWRENCE – They dot the skyline of countless small towns throughout the Midwest, hulking cement towers often visible for miles. New research from a University of Kansas professor shows that grain elevators, those unassuming, utilitarian icons of the Midwest, have done far more than store grain. They have shaped the...
Annual Backus lecturer to speak on historical memory in Poland
LAWRENCE — Neal Pease will be the featured speaker of the spring 2014 Oswald P. Backus Memorial Lecture. The lecture, titled “Not a Stone Upon a Stone: The Demolition of St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Warsaw,” will be 7 p.m. Monday, April 14, in the Malott Room of the Kansas Union. ...
Researcher’s computing testing could help identify toxic compounds
LAWRENCE — Researchers at the University of Kansas School of Engineering are working on a new way to identify in advance whether a chemical could be toxic. Jun “Luke” Huan, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, uses an advanced computational method to analyze vast volumes of data on...
Professor researching how English teachers are educated
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas education professor is co-authoring the first study in nearly 20 years of how America’s English teachers are educated. The study will gauge how institutions across the country prepare English teachers, when and how they address certain topics, where in the university the programs fall...