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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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Law school to host debate about affirmative action in university admissions
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Professor to explore antievolution controversies in Hall Center lecture
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Media advisory: KU chancellor to speak at Fort Leavenworth Black History Month event
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Groundwater level decline continues across western, central Kansas
2012, the KGS and the Kansas Department of Agriculture's Division of Water Resources measured levels in approximately 1,400 water wells in 47 western and central Kansas counties as part of an annual assessment program. ...
New Student Design Center opens in Kansas Union
KU Student Senate, working with KU Memorial Unions, has launched a Student Design Center. Graphic design students have been employed to provide graphic design services to registered University of Kansas student clubs and organizations. The Student Senate and Coca-Cola have joined in funding SDC. ...
Researchers generate musical call of 165-million-year-old katydid
A University of Kansas researcher and scientists from China and the United Kingdom have again played what may be the world’s oldest love song. ...
Law professor argues Congress, not courts, biggest factor in gun rights
Every presidential election year, certain hot-button issues come to the forefront. This year is no different with discussions of abortion, taxes and gun control. A University of Kansas law professor has authored an article arguing that in the case of Americans’ right to keep and bear arms as represented in...
KU Biodiesel Initiative to host forum at National Biodiesel Conference
A multidisciplinary group of researchers and students from the University of Kansas will have a prominent role at the nation’s largest biodiesel conference. ...
Media advisory: KU expert available to speak on national call to improve science, math education
Steven Case, co-director of the UKanTeach program at the University of Kansas, is available to speak with media about the National Math and Science Initiative’s call for the United States to invigorate the way it teaches science, technology, engineering and math — the so-called STEM subjects. ...
Governor to speak at KU on 'Ending Human Trafficking'
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback will speak on “Ending Human Trafficking” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, in the Kansas Union Ballroom at the University of Kansas. ...
KU chapter of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society announces initiates
More than 90 University of Kansas students were initiated into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at the end of the fall semester. ...
Employer registration up 25 percent at University Career Fair
href="http://www.kucareerhawk.com">KU CareerHawkLAWRENCE — The University Career Fair will take place from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, on Level 5 of the Kansas Union. Attendees should expect to see a higher number of internship and career opportunities this year as employer registrations are up 25 percent from last...
KU launches site dedicated to political news for students
Today’s college students have grown up in a digital age, collecting their news online, but at the same time growing disillusioned with politics and the system. A new media project led by a University of Kansas professor will provide political news content designed to engage students in both the production...
Business school creates professional mentorship program
Students at the University of Kansas School of Business have a new tool for professional development with the school’s business student mentorship program. The program, which kicks off this month, will pair alumni and other professionals with current undergraduate and MBA students in an effort to provide career advice and...
Media advisory: KU professors available to speak about college affordability
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KU professor contends nation's first civil rights organization blazed way for NAACP
Ask history students to name the nation’s first civil rights organization, and most will answer with the NAACP, formed in 1909, or possibly the Niagara Movement of 1905. Few know much about the Afro-American League of 1890. ...
KU to celebrate 40th anniversary of February Sisters sit-in
Kansan photographer Greg Sorber encountered an unidentified angry woman at the Feb. 6, 1972, meeting of the Senate Executive Committee and the February Sisters to discuss a campus day care center. Photographers had been barred from the meeting to help protect the identity of the February Sisters, who feared reprisals...
Political correspondent Candy Crowley to receive William Allen White citation
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KU research leads to new startup company
University of Kansas research has led to the creation of a new startup company that will develop online curriculum for health care professionals involved in managing the care of cancer survivors. ...
KU researcher defines shape of enzyme linked to prostate, breast cancers
A University of Kansas researcher has made a discovery that should lead to improved treatments for prostate and breast cancer. ...
Journalism professor analyzes Internet connectivity among 'Arab spring' nations
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