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KU researchers highlight how $80.6 billion in federal spending supports individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities nationwide
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Professor to receive Scripps award as national journalism teacher of the year
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KU Earth Day event to include rain barrel benefit auction
Our Community, Our Environment will feature a keynote presentation by Kelly Kindscher, University of Kansas professor and senior scientist at the Kansas Biological Survey, followed by environmental panel discussions on solid waste management, preservation, land use, environmental law and policy, and history of environmentalism, moderated by Environs coordinators. ...
Three KU research projects to be featured at entrepreneurship symposium
University of Kansas researchers have earned three of 31 presentation slots at one of the nation’s most exclusive venture capital events. ...
KU researchers find further evidence of disturbed immune system in autism
of the 29 cytokine levels analyzed, the researchers found disturbed levels in five related to the T-helper cell immune system and three involved in hematopoiesis or the production of blood cells possibly affecting antibody production required for normal immune system activity. ...
Hall Center lecture on Mark Twain and politics slated in Wichita
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KU, Haskell students to present research projects 12th annual symposium
include undergraduate- and graduate-level students at both universities. They participate in programs that encourage underrepresented students to pursue research careers in biomedical science, including the Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program at Haskell and KU, the Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement Program at Haskell, the Initiative for Maximizing Student Development Program...
Engineering, business schools collaborate for Students in Free Enterprise
A group of University of Kansas School of Engineering and School of Business students has revived a campus organization that strives to give its members “a head for business and a heart for the world.” Twenty-two students from the two schools are involved in Students in Free Enterprise. The organization...
Gift for $5M to advance energy and environment research at KU
Chesapeake Energy Corporation, based in Oklahoma City, has pledged a $5 million gift to fund an interactive high-tech auditorium to anchor the new $28 million Energy and Environment Center at the University of Kansas. The center, a future addition to Lindley Hall, will create a unique team approach to teaching...
KU spring concerts to feature work of renowned choreographer
Company members. Photograph by Becca Dreyfus. ...
KU School of Music announces spring Opera Gala performances
The University of Kansas School of Music has announced spring dates for the 2012 KU Opera Gala. ...
'Notes from No Man's Land' selected as KU Common Book for 2012-2013 academic year
“Notes from No Man’s Land,” a 2009 collection of essays by writer Eula Biss, has been named the KU Common Book for the 2012-2013 academic year, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little announced today. ...
Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center to host dedication ceremony for driver training facility
The Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center will name its new driver training facility in honor of Robert J. Senecal, dean emeritus at the University of Kansas, at a dedication ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 20, on the KLETC campus. ...
KU receives grant for Jayhawk Buddy System
The University of Kansas has received a $10,000 grant from The Foundation for Alcohol Research’s Great Plays program to support KU’s Jayhawk Buddy System. Similar funds could be available for a second and third year of the program, subject to the availability of funds and the Foundation’s review of the...
KU climbs in annual national ranking for federally funded research
Federally funded research at the University of Kansas increased in 2010 to a record $147.6 million. That figure ranked KU 41st among national public research universities, according to an annual survey released recently by the National Science Foundation. ...
University mourns longtime employee Jim Busse
University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and Bala Subramaniam, director of the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis, issued the following statements on the death of employee James E. Busse: ...
Distractions, quick thinking lead to conservative thoughts, research finds
Could knocking back a few beers influence a person’s views on property rights or the role of government in production and trade? ...
Shakespeare comedy in original pronunciation to premiere on KPR
Ever wondered what it would be to like to time-travel back to Shakespeare’s London, sneak into the Globe Theatre and eavesdrop on opening night of “Hamlet” or “Romeo and Juliet”? What did English sound like back then — anything like today’s British or American English? ...
Professor can speak about preparedness five years after Virginia Tech tragedy
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Professor helping improve out-of-school learning time for Kansas City youth
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Nine students, alumni win National Science Foundation fellowships
Nine students and alumni from the University of Kansas have won National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships for 2012-13. ...
Atkinson to retire June 30; chancellor names acting EVC and executive dean
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Professor examines how newspaper 'layoff survivors' view themselves, work
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Media advisory: KU education experts can speak on same-sex schooling, other AERA research topics
of Kansas has several education professors and experts in various fields of education who will be on hand for the American Educational Research Association conference April 13-17 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The faculty members, and a description of the work they will be presenting, are below. To schedule an...
KU-Fort Leavenworth security conference to focus on Afghanistan 2014
The University of Kansas Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies and the Center for Global and International Studies, together with the Foreign Military Studies Office at Fort Leavenworth, will host the third annual KU-Fort Leavenworth Security Conference on April 25. The conference, which will be in the Kansas...
Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution recasts years of research for KU sociolinguist
Sometimes a single event can render years of scholarly research obsolete. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, for example, Soviet-era Kreminologists slipped out of the lexicon. Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution did as much for a sociolinguist at the University of Kansas who specializes in political discourse. ...
KU Social Work Day to highlight latest developments, research in the field
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KU to host first scholarly conference on detection of test fraud May 23-24
Center for Education Testing and Evaluation at the University of Kansas will host the Conference on Statistical Detection of Potential Test Fraud on May 23-24. The conference will be the first scholarly conference focusing on statistical approaches to identifying test fraud, a growing concern as methods of test administration evolve...