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AAI announces the Center for Positive Youth Development
The Achievement & Assessment Institute (AAI) has announced its latest center, the Center for Positive Youth Development. ...
Faculty member Emily Witt wins Michler Prize
Emily Witt, associate professor of mathematics, has been awarded the 2022-2023 Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize from the Association of Women in Mathematics and Cornell University. ...
2022 KU seniors honor high school teachers with Wolfe Teaching Excellence Awards
Three outstanding high school teachers will be recognized with the Wolfe Teaching Excellence Award this graduation season at the University of Kansas. ...
School of Education & Human Sciences to honor 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient
The University of Kansas School of Education & Human Sciences will honor alumnus John Heim with one of its top awards this spring. ...
Spencer Museum, Charlotte Street Foundation relaunch Rocket Grants
The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas and Charlotte Street Foundation have announced the return of Rocket Grants with the call for artists opening May 13. ...
University to honor retiring support, professional staff members
A University Support and University Professional Staff luncheon is planned this week to honor retiring KU employees. Barbara Bichelmeyer, provost and executive vice chancellor, will honor the retirees at the event at 11 a.m. May 12 in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Retirees will receive a gift. ...
KU Libraries announce winners of 64th annual Snyder Book Collecting Contest
The University of Kansas Libraries announced the winners of the 64th annual Snyder Book Collecting Contest at an awards presentation last month. The contest, established by libraries donor Elizabeth Snyder in 1957, is designed to recognize students' passion for collecting books. ...
Picture power: How early French humanists exploited imagery in books
Befitting a work about 15th-century illuminated manuscripts, Anne Hedeman includes 183 color illustrations in her new book. The gorgeous art serves to illustrate the author’s groundbreaking scholarship, which details the power these images once had in propounding a humanistic — as opposed to strictly religious or royal — worldview. ...
13 students receive research awards from Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research
The Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research at the University of Kansas has awarded $12,000 in funding this spring for student research to be conducted this year. The research center’s 2022 Student Research Awards are providing 13 students, including four undergraduates, with funding ranging from $500 to $1,500...
Book examines scope of political and social attitudes among devout Muslims
Public concerns about the influence of religion on politics have garnered much attention in recent years. These concerns have been particularly evident in regard to the intertwining of religion and politics for devout Muslims. But whether that’s a fair assessment when compared to other religions — or even when measured...
KU recognizes 13 students with 2022 University Awards, Campanile Award
The University of Kansas has awarded 13 students with honors that recognize community engagement, leadership and academics. ...
Mahbub Rashid named dean of School of Architecture & Design
Mahbub Rashid has been named dean of the School of Architecture & Design at the University of Kansas. Rashid has served as the interim dean of the school since 2019. His appointment as the next dean of the school is effective immediately. ...
New online play from Darren Canady asks who owns the notion of Blackness
What if choreographer Alvin Ailey decided to racially integrate his all-Black dance company today? Can you imagine the firestorm? ...
KU Engineering student wins Phi Kappa Phi fellowship
A University of Kansas senior in chemical engineering with plans to pursue a medical degree in the KU School of Medicine after graduation is this year’s winner of the James Blackiston Memorial Graduate Fellowship from the KU chapter of Phi Kappa Phi. Amanda Hertel, of Shawnee, wins $1,500 and is...
Study finds empathy training improves mother-child relationships, life satisfaction
Any parent who has had a child reach middle school age can attest that adolescence can be a tough time. A new study from the University of Kansas and Baker University has found that an intervention focusing on empathy skills can improve relationships between mothers and children and life satisfaction. ...
In-person socialization down, but social media isn’t to blame, researcher says
Jeffrey Hall is passionate about two things in particular – friendship and social media – and he thinks the latter is too often mistaken as the enemy of the former. ...
KU Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science inducts inaugural class of Distinguished Service Award winners
A man who revolutionized the way the world views maps online and another who was a pioneer in computing on the University of Kansas campus are the first two recipients of the KU EECS Distinguished Service (KEDS) Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. ...
Six years running, KU makes Phi Theta Kappa’s transfer honor roll
For the sixth consecutive year, the University of Kansas has been recognized for excellence in community college transfer by a national honor society. ...
KU to honor faculty, academic staff retirees
The University of Kansas will honor retiring faculty and academic staff members and their guests with a lunch in May. Chancellor Douglas A. Girod and Chris Brown, vice provost for faculty development, will recognize the employees during the private event. ...
Nigerians respond to hard times with social media humor
The idea that humor is an appropriate response to oppression and is used to shine a light on the truth is an old one, and it comes up yet again with a new twist in a new book by James Yékú, assistant professor of African digital humanities at the University...
Experts team up to improve outcomes for often-overlooked student population
The shared belief that all students have a right to high-quality academic instruction has brought together experts from across the country to improve access to the general education curriculum for students who are deafblind with significant cognitive disabilities. ...
KU student Aylar Atadurdyyeva named a Key into Public Service Scholar
a junior in global & international studies, microbiology and political science with minors in German studies, psychology and Russian & East European studies. She is an active member of the University Honors program, where she serves as a student ambassador. Atadurdyyeva has served as a clinical research assistant at KU...
KU law school is 11th in nation for first-time bar exam pass rate
Graduates of the University of Kansas School of Law who took the bar exam for the first time in 2021 had one of the highest success rates in the country. ...
Speech-Language-Hearing Distinguished Professor Steven Warren set to give Inaugural Lecture
Steven Warren has worked on more than his fair share of studies and clinical trials in four decades as an expert in social and behavioral sciences. The University of Kansas community has the chance to hear the professor deliver his Inaugural Lecture at 5:30 p.m. May 4 in the Hancock...
Information for news media covering University of Kansas Class of 2022 Commencement
The University of Kansas invites news media to cover the university’s Commencement ceremony May 15 for the Class of 2022. ...
KU leading project to test new business model for rural, weekly newspapers
Business has changed since 1833. One would be hard-pressed to find businesses operating with the same model that was in place when Andrew Jackson was in the White House. But in the case of newspapers, many are still operating with the same business model established when Benjamin Day opened the...
Study preserves memory in mice, offering promising new basis for active immunization against Alzheimer's disease
During experiments in animal models, researchers at the University of Kansas have discovered a possible new approach to immunization against Alzheimer’s disease (AD). ...
KU policy expert can discuss leaked SCOTUS opinion, '50 years of dismantling of legal abortion'
A draft opinion from the Supreme Court leaked May 2, indicating the court would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the law that has made abortion access legal throughout the United States for nearly 50 years. The highly unusual breach in the court’s protocol is not a final ruling, but...
Abdelmajid Hannoum receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Morocco
Abdelmajid Hannoum, University of Kansas professor of anthropology, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to travel to Morocco to conduct research on African migration to Europe. ...
150th anniversary of Victoria Woodhull's presidential run good time to reflect on political coverage of women, professor says
As voters go to the polls in states’ primaries and the midterm elections near, coverage of political candidates and issues frame people in varying lights. The 2022 election cycle also marks the 150th anniversary of Victoria Woodhull’s 1872 run for president, the first woman in the United States to do...