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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...
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
Melanie Wilson...
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. ...
Ligand signs lease for last remaining space at BTBC Main Facility
LAWRENCE — There’s no room left at the inn. Or in this case, the incubator. ...
Knight Commission leader will join discussion of athletics, academics at KU
Amy Perko...
Chancellor to speak in Washington at university-based company startups conference
LAWRENCE — Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little of the University of Kansas will deliver a keynote presentation Thursday at the sixth annual University Startups Conference in Washington, D.C. The three-day conference is organized by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer, with the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health as...
U.S. Supreme Court cites work of KU law professor in arbitration case opinion
Stephen J. Ware...
Researchers refine a powerful laser microscope for biomedical use
LAWRENCE — Researchers from the University of Kansas are building a smaller, cheaper and more flexible fiber-laser microscope that could revolutionize biomedical and clinical work. ...
Dynamic maps key to improving assessments for students with disabilities
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has made progress in developing a new generation of assessments for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The $22 million grant, the largest in KU history, was given to the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation in 2010 by the U.S. Department of Education,...
New biography explores civil rights legacy of King's mentor Benjamin Mays
Randal Jelks...
BTBC at KU to launch Entrepreneur Education Series
LAWRENCE – The Bioscience and Technology Business Center at the University of Kansas (BTBC at KU) is set to launch the BTBC Entrepreneur Education Series, a series of Friday workshops for entrepreneurs and those considering starting their own companies, starting Jan. 20. ...