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'Game Changers' exhibition opening at DeBruce Center
The KU Memorial Union and KU History Project will host a public gallery opening from 5-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, for the new exhibition “Game Changers” at the DeBruce Gallery, located in the DeBruce Center. ...
Workshop to help faculty use applied improvisation to improve public speaking
To help faculty members gain skills to convey their research and discoveries to the public, the Life Span Institute at the University of Kansas is offering a two-day workshop hosted by experts who blend techniques for public speaking with improvisational theater. ...
KU Debate wins multiple tournaments to start off 2020
The University of Kansas debate team began the new decade by winning multiple tournaments in the opening days of January. KU debaters traveled across the country from Jan 2-11 with teams competing at five different tournaments. KU students won three of the tournaments, placed second at the fourth tournament and...
Spencer Museum convening Jan. 22 to highlight digital projects across KU
University of Kansas faculty and staff are invited to attend the Spencer Museum of Art Digital Initiative Convening, which will take place from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, at The Commons at Spooner Hall. This event will highlight the Spencer Museum’s technology-driven educational projects and digital activities...
Second line band to highlight university’s Martin Luther King Jr. events
The University of Kansas Office of Diversity & Equity invites the campus community to continue the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day into the week. ...
Stauffer-Flint Hall reopens next week with ribbon cutting to celebrate completion of renovation
The University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications is kicking off the spring semester with ribbon-cutting ceremonies to celebrate the completion of a multimillion-dollar renovation project of Stauffer-Flint Hall. ...
Climate change NGOs from rich countries dominate online conversation, study shows
As climate change threatens the world, governments and organizations from around the globe have banded together to fight its effects. Yet that collaboration has not always carried over into the online world, where technology is often assumed to connect people and break down barriers. Research from the University of Kansas...
US-China agreement 'surprising, disappointing,' only addresses some security concerns, KU trade expert says
The United States and China announced they would sign an initial trade deal today, easing a two-year economic fight between the world’s two largest economies. Terms of the deal are said to include an opening of Chinese markets to more American firms, increase farm exports and provide further protection to...
Grant aims to build interest in Russian studies
Turns out it wasn’t “the end of history” after all. The “happily ever after” ending to the Cold War, in which the West emerged unchallenged, was fleeting, which means the United States needs more Russian studies scholars. And in 2020, the University of Kansas Center for Russian, East European &...
Coronavirus expert available to talk to media about outbreak in Wuhan, China
of Kansas researcher Anthony Fehr is available to talk with media about the coronavirus outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, which the World Health Organization says could spread worldwide. Fehr, assistant professor of molecular biosciences, studies how coronaviruses counter anti-viral measures imposed by their hosts. ...
‘Why We Write’ provides showcase for crafting military tales
During the 1940s, the U.S. government commissioned a series of documentary films called “Why We Fight” to spur public support for World War II. ...
KLETC announces law enforcement training graduates
Twenty-two new law enforcement officers graduated from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC) on Dec. 20. Independence Police Chief Jerry Harrison was the speaker for the ceremony in KLETC’s Integrity Auditorium. ...
Alumnus Scot Pollard will host bowling party to support student scholarships
Scot Pollard and his wife, Dawn, in partnership with the School of Education, will host the 2020 bowling party Jan. 24 at Royal Crest Bowling Lanes. ...
Authors say vaccine advocates must harness power of story
You know that old saw about how doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result constitutes insanity? Well, a new paper by researchers in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas doesn’t go that far, but it does conclude that to counter anti-vaccine...
KU students initiated into Phi Kappa Phi
More than a hundred University of Kansas students were initiated into the KU chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at the end of the fall 2019 semester. Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and most selective honor society for students from all academic disciplines. Membership is...
KU law professor outlines how Title IX protects transgender students
Transgender rights have made significant progress in recent years thanks to court decisions and high-profile transgender individuals putting a spotlight on the issue. Much discrimination still exists, though, especially for young people without political power. ...
KU Law community mourns passing of former dean
The University of Kansas School of Law community is mourning the passing of former dean and longtime professor Martin Dickinson, who died Jan. 5 in Estes Park, Colorado. He was 81. ...
The Commons announces spring events for care and well-being series
How do we practice care? This question is at the heart of a weekly series of programs offered at The Commons in collaboration with the Institute for Policy & Social Research Center for Compassionate and Sustainable Communities. ...
Dole Institute exhibition highlights career, service of Elizabeth Dole
The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas has announced the opening of “What Would a Woman Offer Her Country?: Elizabeth Dole’s Ground-breaking, Trail-blazing Life of Service,” the inaugural exhibition of the newly opened Elizabeth Dole Gallery and Reading Room at the institute. ...
Gifts benefit study of mammals, Natural History Museum at KU
The late KU professor Robert Wilson’s passion and preeminent scholarly achievements in teaching and studying the evolution of small mammals have inspired gift commitments totaling $950,000 from colleagues, friends and family — in particular, three women. The gifts will benefit the Biodiversity Institute and the Natural History Museum at the...
Registration now open for Software Carpentry workshop Jan. 15-16
KU Libraries, along with key partners, has announced an upcoming Software Carpentry Workshop. Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get work done in less time by teaching basic research computing skills. The workshop will take place Jan. 15-16 in the Learned Engineering Expansion Phase 2 building, Room G415, in the...
New version of fossil-recognition app now works on Android smartphones and includes Cretaceous period
In 2015, when researchers at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum released the free Digital Atlas of Ancient Life app, they didn’t know what kind of reception the smartphone-based field guide might receive. ...
Contradicting long-held assumption, research shows acidic environment could boost power of harmful pathogens
published in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS Pathogens, could have implications for addressing the crisis of antibiotic resistance in bacterial infections around the world. ...
School of Business launches master’s degree in business analytics for fall 2020
The University of Kansas School of Business will begin offering a master’s degree in business analytics next fall. ...
Pharmacy students travel across Kansas to visit independent pharmacies
Sixteen University of Kansas School of Pharmacy students will take a three-day trip across Kansas next week to visit 13 independent community pharmacies. ...
University announces fall candidates for degree
The names of 1,355 candidates for degree from the University of Kansas this fall — representing 58 Kansas counties; 40 other states and Washington, D.C.; and 58 other countries — have been announced by the University Registrar. Degrees are officially conferred in January. ...
Game theory expert expands method to incorporate new categories
If economics is a game, Tarun Sabarwal would make a worthy opponent. ...
Martin Baron, Washington Post executive editor, to receive 2020 William Allen White Foundation National Citation
Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post, has been selected to receive the 2020 William Allen White Foundation National Citation. The award, which recognizes individuals for outstanding journalistic service, comes from a vote of the trustees of the William Allen White Foundation, which is named in honor of White. ...
KPR’s Cinema a Go-Go brings cheesy teenage rebellion to the screen Jan. 10
"Retro Cocktail Hour" brings Cinema a Go-Go back to the big screen at 7 p.m. Jan. 10 at Liberty Hall. ...
A ‘Jackalope’ of an ancient spider fossil deemed a hoax, unmasked as a crayfish
Earlier this year, a remarkable new fossil specimen was unearthed in the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China by area fossil hunters – possibly a huge ancient spider species, as yet unknown to science. ...