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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,...
Telemedicine delivers health care to patients statewide
Twenty years ago, a patient in Garden City or Salina might have faced hours of travel to Wichita for specialized medical care — or perhaps an even longer commute to Kansas City. ...
Training to save lives
It’s the nightmare scenario for grain workers: You’re working inside the grain bin when you’re suddenly engulfed by grain. You try to escape, but the grain acts like quicksand, making it impossible to pull yourself out — and difficult for anyone else to lift you out without specialized training. ...
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. ...
New biography explores civil rights legacy of King's mentor Benjamin Mays
Randal Jelks...
Professor issues reports supporting savings to help kids reach college
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas professor has issued the first of four reports outlining the role savings accounts play in college success and urging lawmakers to support creations of such accounts for children early in their lives. ...
Media advisory: KU librarian can speak on collection of radical political literature
LAWRENCE - Politics have been a breeding ground for radical literature since the country was founded. No matter the political ideology, pamphlets, newsletters, books websites and nowdays, blogs, have espoused the merits of one’s political ideas while decrying others. The University of Kansas has the nation’s largest collection of both...
KU professor to give keynote address at governor's MLK Day celebration
Derrick Darby...
$2.5 million gift commitment largest ever for School of Education
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas alumnus and his wife have made a $2.5 million commitment to establish an endowed scholarship program for KU’s School of Education. ...
Law professor investigates rise of corporate social responsibility in China
KU School of Law associate professor Virginia Harper Ho...
KU anthropologists help re-wrap Amazonian mummy
Photo from the National University of San Martin Regional Museum...
First detailed geologic map of Saline County now available
LAWRENCE — A new full-color geologic map of Saline County showing broad river valleys dissecting hilly terrain is available from the Kansas Geological Survey based at the University of Kansas. ...
KU team proposes programs to help stem Haiti's brain drain
Photo by C.B. Clairborne...