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Dole Institute will welcome former US Sen. Pat Roberts for special program
The Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas has announced that it will livestream the fourth and final installment of its afternoon series inspired by the “Voices from the Big First, 1961-1968” exhibition at 3 p.m. May 11 on the institute’s YouTube channel. The event will feature former...
Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center graduates 277th Basic Training Class
Twenty-five new law enforcement officers graduated from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC) on April 30 at a ceremony held in KLETC’s Integrity Auditorium. Officer Joshua Westerfield of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, & Tourism was the graduating class president. The speaker for the ceremony was chief of...
Information for news media covering commencement ceremonies for the Class of 2021 and Class of 2020
The University of Kansas invites news media to cover the university’s 148th and 149th Commencement ceremonies. ...
KU student finishes first at Yale Hindi Debate competition
A University of Kansas student took home the top prize at the 2021 Yale Hindi Debate competition on April 9. Sydney Pritchard, a sophomore in linguistics from Lawrence, earned the win in the “Non-native, Non-heritage category” at the event, which draws students from colleges including Yale, Notre Dame, Harvard, UCLA...
KU honors 13 students with the 2021 University, Campanile awards
The University of Kansas has awarded 13 students with honors that recognize community engagement, leadership and academics. ...
KU Ombuds Office adds part-time staff member
Mike Rozinsky will bring more than 20 years of experience and knowledge in conflict resolution and organizational development to the University of Kansas Ombuds Office, where he will serve as associate ombuds starting this month. He will work on a part-time basis each week to support the office by meeting...
KU Law to honor three alumni with top award
Three University of Kansas School of Law alumni will receive the law school’s highest alumni honor, the Distinguished Alumni Award, this year. The award celebrates graduates for their professional achievements, contributions to the legal field and service to their communities and the university. ...
Back to the Future: Time to Redesign virtual summer conference hosted as multisession series for educators
The School of Education & Human Sciences at the University of Kansas will host the 14th annual Strategies for Educational Improvement Summer Conference for the region’s PK-12 educators as a virtual multisession series. This year’s virtual summer conference series, “Back to the Future: Time to Redesign,” will focus on the...
Professional playwrights, students collaborate in KU Theatre’s season finale
Through a series of 20 short scenes and songs, "Changemakers" shares stories inspired by community leaders, activists and front line workers who have fought for change. This collaborative work, written by commissioned playwrights working alongside students, makes its world premiere Thursday, April 29, as the University Theatre’s season finale. "Changemakers"...
KU Design wins Best School, multiple individual honors at national design competition
Department of Design students represented the University of Kansas at the 2021 National Student Show design competition and brought home the Best School Award, along with multiple individual honors. The winners were announced during a virtual ceremony in early April. ...
Two students receive KU Field Station Student Research Awards for 2021
Like all research activity, field studies have required adaptation during the past year. University of Kansas student researchers have welcomed the chance to work outdoors but have made adjustments with social distancing, driving separate vehicles and implementing other changes. One of the ways the Kansas Biological Survey provides support for...
Research suggests North America first populated by 'stepping stone' migration across Bering Sea
For thousands of years during the last ice age, generations of maritime migrants paddled skin boats eastward across shallow ocean waters from Asia to present-day Alaska. They voyaged from island to island and ultimately to shore, surviving on bountiful seaweeds, fish, shellfish, birds and game harvested from coastal and nearshore...
Talking dictionary to link Lawrence, Kansas, and Guerrero, Mexico
By creating an online trilingual dictionary with a grant from Humanities Kansas to the local Centro Hispano, applicants hope to help descendants of immigrants from the Mexican state of Guerrero preserve their heritage and maybe even speak to their grandparents back home in the indigenous language Meꞌphaa. ...
Author foresaw danger of Trump’s rhetoric
Given that he finished his new book on the former president’s rhetoric last summer, long before the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Robin Rowland seems prescient warning of the threat of authoritarianism arising from the nationalist populism of Donald Trump. ...
Research delves into link between test anxiety and poor sleep
College students across the country struggle with a vicious cycle: Test anxiety triggers poor sleep, which in turn reduces performance on the tests that caused the anxiety in the first place. ...
'DeepRacer' competition sharpens programming, coding skills
Computer science students at the University of Kansas will test their skills throughout the remainder of the semester with a series of races using self-driving model cars developed by Amazon Web Services. ...
KU scholar selected as 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow
University of Kansas scholar Beth Bailey was named today as one of 26 researchers in the 2021 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. With a $200,000 stipend, it is one of the most generous awards of its kind for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Honorees include established and emerging...
Kristin Bowman-James named among American Academy of Arts & Sciences 2021 class
A chemist is the most recent University of Kansas faculty member to be named to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. ...
Charles Kahn, first dean of the School of Architecture & Urban Design, dies at 95
Charles H. Kahn, the first dean of the University of Kansas School of Architecture & Urban Design (now School of Architecture & Design), died at the age of 95 on April 8, 2021, at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ...
Criminal justice staff must view reforms as legitimate for them to be sustained, study shows
Researchers commonly work with the criminal justice system to implement reforms, bringing with them the latest science and data pointing to why a certain practice will help improve outcomes. New research from the University of Kansas shows if community corrections agencies are to sustain evidence-based reforms, they need to view...
Graduate student in mathematics receives Bernstein Award
Wesley Perkins, doctoral candidate in mathematics, has received the 2021 Bernstein Award for Future Faculty from the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at the University of Kansas. The award recognizes KU graduate students who have approached their teaching as an inquiry into learning. The monetary award honors a graduate student...
Alabama school segregation increases due to economic, historical trends, study finds
The landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education declared school segregation illegal in the United States. While desegregation efforts followed in subsequent decades since the 1954 case, schools and communities found ways to resist them. A new study from the University of Kansas found that for schools in...
Center announces 2021 Undergraduate Research Mentor Award winners
The University of Kansas Center for Undergraduate Research has announced the winners of two annual awards given to recognize undergraduate research mentors who make a difference in the lives of their students at KU. ...
Math professor receives Best Paper Award from Ecological Society of America
Erik Van Vleck, professor of mathematics, along with his co-authors, was awarded the 2021 Robert P. McIntosh Award as the best nominated paper in vegetation ecology in the previous two years by the vegetation section of the Ecological Society of America. ...
Kansas Public Radio’s Campaign for Excellence raises over $360,000
Kansas Public Radio’s spring membership drive, the Campaign for Excellence, raised over $360,000. ...
School of Architecture & Design announces interim associate dean of administration
The University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design has announced that Andrea Herstowski, associate professor of design, has been named interim associate dean of administration effective April 19. ...
Michael Engel to deliver Inaugural Distinguished Professor Lecture
A University of Kansas expert on the evolutionary history and diversity of insects will present his distinguished professor Inaugural Lecture, “400 Million Years on Six Legs: Evolution of the Insects,” on Thursday, April 29. ...
KU announces the 2021 Student Employee of the Year
The University Career Center has announced the 2020-2021 Student Employee of the Year (SEOTY) as Logan Bell, of Lenexa, who works for the University of Kansas Office of First-Year Experience, now the Office of Orientation and Transfer Programs (OTP). Throughout his KU career, Bell, who is majoring in English, has...
2021 Gene A Budig Lecture set for April 27
The University of Kansas School of Education & Human Sciences welcomes Suzanne Robinson, associate professor in the Department of Special Education, as the 2021 Budig Teaching Professorship in Special Education award recipient and featured lecturer. ...
Winners announced for KU Math Prize Competition
The 38th Annual KU Math Prize Competition, sponsored by the Department of Mathematics, was held virtually April 2. Open to all KU undergraduates, the written exam for each level covered six questions to be completed in three hours. Cash awards were given in two levels. ...