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Study finds people more cynical toward news more likely to believe misinformation
A study led by the University of Kansas explored news skepticism, news trust and misinformation. Results showed people with more news knowledge had more news skepticism, but those with more news cynicism were more likely to believe misinformation. The results can help improve media literacy and fight misinformation, the authors said.
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Wed, 06/12/2024
KU Kudos: Jayhawk faculty and staff achievements, June 2024
Read about KU employees' recent external honors and awards from all university campuses.
Wed, 06/12/2024
Researchers in US, Ukraine simulate cell activity at ‘breathtaking’ timescales
A partnership between scientists at KU and collaborators in Europe, including war-torn Ukraine, will result in computer models of biological cells likely to hasten health breakthroughs by simulating molecular interactions inside cells with near experimental accuracy at vastly longer timescales than similar efforts.
Tue, 06/11/2024
New book examines best methods to prepare future English teachers
Theory, curriculum and what it means to be a professional educator are all at the heart of “Principles That Shape English Teacher Education,” co-edited by Heidi Hallman, professor of curriculum & teaching at KU.
Tue, 06/11/2024
PCAOB risk-based inspection consequences evaluated using new model
Mike Wilkins, the Larry D. Horner and KPMG Professor of Accounting at KU, examines the effects of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's decision to move to more random-based audit selection. The findings suggest there are more benefits than costs associated with auditors’ responses to a selection approach that is primarily risk-based.
Mon, 06/10/2024
KU TRIO Educational Opportunity Centers provide crucial FAFSA assistance in northeast Kansas
TRIO Educational Opportunity Centers at KU offer free assistance to help individuals, particularly first-generation students and those facing financial challenges, navigate the FAFSA financial aid application process. The program, housed under the Achievement & Assessment Institute’s Center for Educational Opportunity Programs, is accessible to the public in Douglas, Shawnee, Wyandotte, Leavenworth and Franklin counties.
Mon, 06/10/2024
University honors April, May 2024 Employees of the Month
The University of Kansas has announced Employees of the Month for April and May 2024. These staff members have made outstanding contributions to the KU Lawrence community.
Mon, 06/10/2024
International Support Services moving to consolidated location
International Support Services is moving to 50 Strong Hall in June. The move will provide one consolidated location for all ISS staff, who have been spread out among four offices in Strong Hall.
Mon, 06/10/2024
Ten KU students receive Undergraduate Research Awards for summer
This summer, ten University of Kansas students received an Undergraduate Research Award (UGRA). UGRA recipients are awarded a $1,000 scholarship for their work on mentored research and creative projects.
Fri, 06/07/2024
KU community mourns death of longtime employee Scott Jeffress
For 23 years, Jeffress ensured various KU facilities were able to meet the needs of researchers who rely on them to perform their work. Jeffress, a Baldwin City resident, died May 30.
Fri, 06/07/2024
KU School of Business welcomes students for 8th annual Summer Venture in Business
Nearly 50 students from 11 states will participate in the 2024 Summer Venture in Business, which will be held in two sessions, June 9-11 and July 14-19.
Fri, 06/07/2024
KU researcher Rafe Brown receives Fulbright Award to the Philippines
Rafe Brown, professor of ecology & evolutionary biology, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to travel to the Philippines to study biodiversity. Brown will spend a year in the Philippines conducting fieldwork to sample amphibians and reptiles. The research studies the biodiversity of a rare stretch of pristine tropical forest that extends from a volcanic peak to the sea.
Fri, 06/07/2024
Professors collaborate with National Humanities Center to bring first AI & Digital Literacy educators' institute to KU
Kathryn Conrad and Sean Kamperman, faculty members in the Department of English, collaborated with the NHC to bring together teachers and administrators from middle schools, secondary schools and colleges from across the region for a week of critical discussions, presentations and instructional resource and policy development.
Thu, 06/06/2024
KU Libraries announce 2024 Whayne Scholars; visiting researchers’ presentations set for June 26
Alyssa Cole, assistant professor of African American studies at the University of Florida, and Brooke Thomas, African American history postdoctoral scholar at Pennsylvania State University, are the recipients of the 2024 Alyce Hunley Whayne Visiting Researchers Travel Award from KU Libraries. They will visit KU from June 24 to 27 with a joint public presentation at 3 p.m. June 26 in the Johnson Room.
Thu, 06/06/2024
75 Jayhawks initiated into KU chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
The University of Kansas Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society initiated new members at a May 12 ceremony. Election to Phi Beta Kappa recognizes a student’s high academic achievement while pursuing a broad and substantive liberal arts curriculum.
Wed, 06/05/2024
Kevin Willmott's new film shines light on KC civil rights figure
For his next project, Academy Award winner Kevin Willmott, KU professor of film & media studies, turns his camera on a Kansas City civil rights icon, Alvin Brooks, in a documentary about one of the city's first Black police officers and its first Black department head.
Wed, 06/05/2024
KU Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship awarded to 2023 graduate Aylar Atadurdyyeva
KU alumna Aylar Atadurdyyeva is the 2024 winner of the James Blackiston Memorial Graduate Fellowship from the KU chapter of Phi Kappa Phi. Atadurdyyeva won $1,500 and is the chapter’s nominee for a national Phi Kappa Phi fellowship.
Wed, 06/05/2024
KU ranks 60th among US public universities granted utility patents in 2023
For the second year in a row, the University of Kansas has landed a spot on the National Academy of Inventors' top 100 U.S. Universities Granted Utility Patents list. The 2023 list showcases universities that play a pivotal role in advancing the innovation ecosystem within and beyond the United States.
Tue, 06/04/2024
Lifelong learner is intergenerational visual art educator, advocate
Liz Langdon joined the faculty of KU's Department of Visual Art when she was 65 after an extensive career in art education. She writes of the "long hill" she has climbed and vistas yet to conquer for a chapter in a new book titled "Art Education and Creative Aging: Older Adults as Learners, Makers, and Teachers of Art."
Mon, 06/03/2024
Authenticity on the job dramatically benefits trans workers, study shows
A new survey of 206 transgender and nonbinary workers shows dramatic improvements in job and life satisfaction when they are able to communicate about their authentic selves on the job. "This is not incremental; it's huge," said study co-author Cameron Piercy, KU associate professor of communication studies.
Mon, 06/03/2024
Camps built on KU research to help young readers improve, future school psychologists put theory to practice
A pair of reading camps hosted by the OASIS training clinic at KU will help struggling readers boost their skills in a fun way based on research from KU. The camps also train aspiring school psychologists in using research-based reading intervention and behavior supports.
Fri, 05/31/2024
Theatre design student earns 1st place at national contest
Two students represented the University of Kansas and showcased their skills as theatrical designers at the recent Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival National competition in Washington, D.C.
Thu, 05/30/2024
Center for Evaluation and Educational Leadership welcomes new director Bart Swartz
The Center for Evaluation & Educational Leadership (CEEL), housed within the University of Kansas’ Achievement & Assessment Institute, has announced the appointment of Bart Swartz as its new director. Swartz succeeds Brad Neuenswander, who has served as director since the center’s founding.
Thu, 05/30/2024
Professor applies theoretical work to his metal music
Brad Osborn, KU professor of music theory, channels his inner black-metal musician into one-man band D’Archipelago, which has now released its fifth recording. “EVILSIZOR” continues the trend of pop music that ignores the old verse-chorus structure.
Thu, 05/30/2024
Media invited to KU program featuring NATO Military Committee Chair Admiral Robert Bauer on June 4
Admiral Robert Bauer (Royal Netherlands Navy), chair of the Military Committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), will give a presentation and sit for a discussion with Dole Institute Visiting Fellow Gerald Seib at a private event.
Wed, 05/29/2024
KU announces contract extension for Director of Athletics Travis Goff
University of Kansas Director of Athletics Travis Goff has signed a seven-year contract extension that will keep him at KU through 2031. The agreement extends Goff’s contract — originally a five-year deal worth $700,000 annually — through May 31, 2031, and increases his base salary to $1.3 million.
Wed, 05/29/2024
Ten KU Law students honored for scholarship, leadership and service
Ten University of Kansas School of Law students received awards during the spring 2024 semester for distinguishing themselves in scholarship, leadership and service to the law school and the community.
Tue, 05/28/2024
Dyche Hall Grotesque Renewal Project honored with historic preservation award
The Dyche Hall Grotesque Renewal Project at KU recently received the Medallion Award, the highest award bestowed by the Kansas Preservation Alliance, at the 2024 Kansas State Preservation Conference.
Tue, 05/28/2024
Education in an AI World summer conference to be hosted for educators
The School of Education & Human Sciences at the University of Kansas will host the 2024 Strategies for Educational Improvement Summer Conference for the region’s PK-12 educators as a hybrid professional development event June 14.
Tue, 05/28/2024
KU establishes $11 million biomedical center to advance women’s health using big data
A new grant from the National Institutes of Health will establish a multidisciplinary biomedical center at the University of Kansas to research big data’s potential to improve women’s health. It will fund KU’s fifth Center of Biomedical Research Excellence.
Tue, 05/28/2024
Spain still struggles over interpretation of its Golden Age
To understand the separatist movements and other political forces that threaten to break Spain apart, it is instructive to see how all sides spin the nation’s Golden Age literary heritage today. That is the premise of the new book “The Currency of Cultural Patrimony: The Spanish Golden Age” by KU author Robert Bayliss.