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Law school to host debate about affirmative action in university admissions
Ron Sullivan...
Professor to explore antievolution controversies in Hall Center lecture
Jeff Moran...
Media advisory: KU chancellor to speak at Fort Leavenworth Black History Month event
Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little...
Groundwater level decline continues across western, central Kansas
LAWRENCE—Average groundwater levels throughout western and central Kansas dropped more in the past year than they had annually since 1996, according to preliminary data compiled by the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas. ...
New Student Design Center opens in Kansas Union
LAWRENCE — 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
LAWRENCE — 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
LAWRENCE — 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...
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. ...
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. ...
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
Deborah Adams...
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 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
Candy Crowley...
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
Hyunjin Seo...