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KU launches new Bachelor of Science in Nutrition to meet growing demand for food and health expertise
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New KU center to focus on health disparities in underserved populations
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KU professor's study calls for establishing savings accounts for all kids
LAWRENCE — Children who own a savings account early in life are much more likely to have greater financial assets and positive financial habits when they grow older than those who don't. A University of Kansas professor has authored an article urging policy makers to establish early life accounts for...
Media advisory: KU expert available to discuss White House proposal to block deportation of younger immigrants
LAWRENCE — A Latino literature expert at the University of Kansas is available to respond to today's news that the Obama administration will block deportations of some young immigrants. ...
Audio-Reader accepting donations of records, CDs, equipment for annual sale
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Audio-Reader Network, a reading and information service for the blind and print-disabled, is accepting donations of gently used vinyl records, CDs, audio equipment, musical instruments and DVDs for For Your Ears Only, their annual sale of all things audio. ...
Music students to return to sister city Eutin for summer music exchange
LAWRENCE — A group of University of Kansas School of Music students will return to Lawrence's sister city, Eutin, Germany, to continue the successful music exchange developed between the two cities. ...
Public tour planned at KU medicinal garden Saturday
From left are Kim Scherman, Eudora, KU senior in English and journalism and mass communications; Katie Fankhauser, Topeka, KU junior in environmental studies; and Allyson Prue, Lawrence, a Haskell Indian Nations University junior in environmental science, work at KU Native Medicinal Plant Research Garden. ...
Kansas Geological Survey honors outstanding students
LAWRENCE—Five University of Kansas students received outstanding achievement awards from the Kansas Geological Survey, based on KU's West Campus. ...
KU research on distracted driving, wireless automobile devices to be featured at tech conference
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KU author pens book on school program with 'Unmistakable Impact'
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas-developed program that matches teachers with coaches to improve education is making an "unmistakable impact," as is the new book that makes instructional coaching available to entire schools. ...
Media advisory: KU Libraries collection includes many rare Ray Bradbury works, interviews
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas Libraries holds a large amount of items both by and about world-renowned science fiction author Ray Bradbury, who died June 6 at the age of 91. Library staff and faculty members are available to speak with media working on feature retrospective stories about Bradbury's work...
Research discovery: Near-complete set of templates for protein complexes exists today
LAWRENCE — Visualize trying to finish a jigsaw puzzle where each individual piece keeps changing shape. If that sounds like an impossible task, imagine the vexing job scientists have faced in computer modeling of interactions between tens of thousands of proteins that are fundamental to biology. ...
Estate gift establishes scholarship for KU students studying in Germany
LAWRENCE — A $1.7 million estate gift from two late Topeka psychiatrists has established a study abroad scholarship for University of Kansas students to study in Germany. The Drs. Dean T. and Elisabeth Collins Scholarship will annually provide full support for KU students to study longer-term — a semester or...
Kansas high school students begin Journey to J.D. at KU law school camp
LAWRENCE – Sixteen high school students from across the state of Kansas are getting a taste of law school and careers in the legal profession this week during the third annual Journey to J.D. at the University of Kansas School of Law. ...
Recent MPA graduate selected as 2012 Presidential Management Fellow
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Summer school for teachers includes course on app creation
LAWRENCE — A small group of high school educators from northeast Kansas will be at the University of Kansas School of Engineering in June for a hands-on introduction to the world of cutting-edge app development and programming for Android tablets. ...
MEDIA ADVISORY: KU faculty available to comment on Ray Bradbury's career
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Outstanding theatre students honored at banquet
LAWRENCE — Graduating doctoral students Chandra Owenby Hopkins and Boone J. Hopkins received the top awards given by the Department of Theatre during the annual Stage Supper, which was May 4 on the Crafton-Preyer Theatre Stage. ...
KU historian touts benefits of foods indigenous to Americas
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Project to digitize ancient fossils could clarify influence of climate change
LAWRENCE — For hundreds of years, paleontologists have added fossils to museums around the world, amassing meticulous records of ancient biology, such as the invertebrate paleontology collection at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Institute. ...
Spencer adds rich variety of rare European books from 16th through 19th centuries
LAWRENCE – A gift of 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th century rare books from Eliot S. Berkley to the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas will offer scholars new insights into the period in such diverse topics as religion, philosophy, military and political history, geography, biography, social...
Steeples Award honors three faculty members for their service to Kansans
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Peruvian mummy focuses attention on death, memory in the Amazon
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Twenty KU students chosen for University Scholars program
LAWRENCE — Twenty University of Kansas sophomores from a variety of disciplines were selected earlier this spring to become the next generation of University Scholars. ...
Education professors study how college leaders manage 'financial tsunami'
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