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Media advisory: KU expert available to speak on national call to improve science, math education
LAWRENCE — 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. ...
KU Biodiesel Initiative to host forum at National Biodiesel Conference
LAWRENCE – A multidisciplinary group of researchers and students from the University of Kansas will have a prominent role at the nation’s largest biodiesel conference. ...
Governor to speak at KU on 'Ending Human Trafficking'
LAWRENCE – 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
LAWRENCE — More than 90 University of Kansas students were initiated into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at the end of the fall semester. ...
KU launches site dedicated to political news for students
LAWRENCE — 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...
Business school creates professional mentorship program
LAWRENCE — 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...
Media advisory: KU professors available to speak about college affordability
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KU to celebrate 40th anniversary of February Sisters sit-in
University Daily 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...
Political correspondent Candy Crowley to receive William Allen White citation
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KU professor contends nation's first civil rights organization blazed way for NAACP
LAWRENCE — 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 researcher defines shape of enzyme linked to prostate, breast cancers
LAWRENCE – 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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KU conference to explore future of agriculture from international perspective
LAWRENCE – Lawyers, policymakers and scientists will explore the future of agriculture from an international perspective at a scholarly roundtable hosted by the Center for International Trade and Agriculture at the University of Kansas School of Law. ...
Media advisory: Criminal law professor available to discuss Supreme Court ruling in GPS tracking case
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KU announces state's first journalism doctoral program
LAWRENCE – The Kansas Board of Regents has approved the University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications’ request to begin a doctoral program starting in fall 2012, making it the first mass communications doctoral program in the state of Kansas. ...
Panel on state legislative issues to feature state lawmakers, KU faculty
LAWRENCE – Lawmakers, University of Kansas faculty and a veteran journalist will take part in a public panel discussion focused on top issues in the 2012 session of the Kansas Legislature. ...
Colorado third state to join KU-developed system for career assessment
LAWRENCE – Another state has joined a collaborative effort to develop a new assessment for determining students' career readiness, the Center for Education Testing and Evaluation at the University of Kansas announced today. ...
Film festival at The Commons features talk by filmmaker, KU alumnus Carl Deal
LAWRENCE – Filmmaker Carl Deal will speak at The Commons on Jan. 29 as a part of the Urban Palimpsest Destruction and Renewal Film Festival, which features his 2008 documentary, "Trouble the Water." ...
Future City Competition to showcase middle schoolers' engineering skills
LAWRENCE — Hundreds of middle school students will converge on the University of Kansas campus this week to showcase their versions of small-scale, environmentally friendly towns of tomorrow and compete for a trip to Washington, D.C. ...
KU law, business students assist with free tax preparations
LAWRENCE – Law and business students from the University of Kansas are offering free tax services for those who qualify from Feb. 13 through April 16. ...