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Undergraduate students to present research projects
The University of Kansas will host its second annual Fall Undergraduate Research Poster Session next week, featuring the work of 57 KU students. The public is invited to the event, sponsored by KU’s Center for Undergraduate Research, from 4 to 6 p.m. Dec. 10 in the Kansas Union Ballroom. ...
KU announces Bernie Kish as the featured presenter for the 2019 James Naismith Lecture
The University of Kansas Department of Health, Sport & Exercise Sciences has selected Bernie Kish, lecturer in sport management and Robinson Center facilities director, as keynote speaker for this year’s James Naismith Lecture. ...
College honors employees with Staff Excellence Award
Two staff members in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Kansas received the first Staff Excellence Awards from the College. ...
Study explores and compares how humans, animals innovate
A gorilla putting a stick in a termite mound to get a meal, a house cat learning how to open a door and a pensioner inventing a product for safe walking that goes on to earn millions in sales may not seem similar on the surface, but they all come...
KU Alumni Association sets dates for Homecoming 2020
The University of Kansas will celebrate its 108th Homecoming Sept. 26-Oct. 3, culminating in the KU football game against Iowa State Oct. 3 in David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. ...
KU student earns Charles B. Rangel Fellowship
As someone who grew up in Costa Rica with family in rural Kansas and studied and worked in countries like China, Catalina Wedman said she has come to see the importance and the value of people of different cultures finding common ground and ways to talk to each other. ...
KU Endowment retains real estate advisers
KU Endowment has retained an advisory firm to evaluate future development options for several KU Endowment-owned sites adjacent to the University of Kansas Lawrence campus, including the recreation fields known as the Shenk Sports Complex at the corner of Iowa Street and Clinton Parkway. ...
Jayhawk Esports announces signing day with members of inaugural varsity team
Six University of Kansas students who have been selected for the inaugural varsity Jayhawk Esports team will come together for the first time and sign their official contracts at an event this week. ...
Research center planned to help companies protect the Internet of Things more effectively
More and more, the internet connects to devices in our homes, our offices and even to critical infrastructure that supports the American way of life. ...
Education crisis is a chance for transformational change, KU scholars say
At a time when education faces heavy criticism, a new book by a University of Kansas professor and students aims to take schools from a "yes, but" mindset to a "yes, and" approach to transform the system. ...
Three associate vice chancellors to join KU Research leadership team
Three faculty members committed to the growth and success of the University of Kansas research enterprise are joining the Office of Research as associate vice chancellors. ...
Polish resistance fighter shares history of combating fascism, saving Jews in World War II
At 93 years old, Jarosław “Jarek” Piekałkiewicz understands he is likely the last Polish resistance fighter to ever write a book about his experience fighting the Nazis in World War II. ...
Proposed France tariffs show willingness to act 'aggressively, unilaterally' against friend or foe, law expert says
The United States is threatening 100% tariffs on French merchandise worth about $2.4 billion, President Donald Trump announced, in response to a dispute over how France taxes large tech companies. The tax, which would affect revenues of companies like Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, is disputed by the Office of...
KU Libraries announce 2019 Shulenburger Award for Innovation and Advocacy in Scholarly Communication
KU Libraries are pleased to announce the 2019 David Shulenburger Award for Innovation & Advocacy in Scholarly Communication was awarded posthumously to James Sterbenz, professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Sterbenz passed away in February 2019. ...
How do you pronounce Kyiv, anyway?
Why does even the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine mispronounce the name of its capital city, Kyiv? ...
University announces 2020 Global Scholars
The Global Scholars Program has selected 15 University of Kansas sophomores as 2020 Global Scholars. ...
Linguistics faculty member named as KU's latest AAAS Fellow
Allard Jongman, a professor of linguistics at the University of Kansas, is among the latest group of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows announced today. ...
KU French Club receives French government award
The University of Kansas Department of French, Francophone & Italian Studies and the School of Languages, Literatures & Culture have announced that the KU French Club took a second-place France on Campus Award. ...
Senior will study in Ireland after becoming KU’s second George J. Mitchell Scholar
After he finishes his work at the University of Kansas this year, senior Alex Murray will be headed to Ireland to pursue a graduate degree after receiving word on Saturday that he had won the George J. Mitchell Scholarship. ...
'The Wolves' offers vivid picture of teen soccer players' lives
University Theatre will present “The Wolves,” a 2017 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and work that has been highly produced in theatres nationwide since it closed off-Broadway in 2018. Catch the University of Kansas production Dec. 5-12 in the William Inge Memorial Theatre at Murphy Hall. ...
Renowned philosopher embraced, misunderstood by extremist hate groups
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, composer, poet and cultural critic. ...
University honors September, October Employees of the Month
The University of Kansas has announced the September and October 2019 Employees of the Month. ...
Professor bringing important Ukrainian novel to Western audiences
As the locus of the current impeachment drama, Ukraine is in all the headlines these days. A University of Kansas professor hopes that makes the ground more fertile for his native country’s most celebrated recent novel, which he is translating into English and otherwise working to popularize in the West. ...
Graduate students face more inequality than undergrads, study finds
College is “the great equalizer.”...
‘Dream team’ to study ice loss on critical Greenland glacier to better forecast rising oceans
Last month a new projection of sea-level rise by the year 2050 spurred headlines showing more coastal cities around the world will be submerged than earlier models have predicted. Just how fast and how high sea levels rise globally will be determined by the melting of ice sheets in Greenland...
Federal grants energize BTBC at KU’s economic development efforts for northeast Kansas
On the cusp of a major expansion, the Bioscience & Technology Business Center at the University of Kansas has earned two federal grants to help fuel business acceleration, innovation and economic growth in northeast Kansas. ...
KGS receives DOD grant to advance tunnel detection technology
Noninvasive seismic techniques developed at the Kansas Geological Survey to locate abandoned mines in Kansas also have been used to detect drug runners’ tunnels in the Southwest, clandestine tunnels in war zones and other subsurface structures. To further advance the technology, the KGS has been awarded $2.54 million by the...
Dance, video collaboration continues to echo around world
For University of Kansas professors James Moreno and Ben Rosenthal, their $15,000 grant from the Hall Center for the Humanities in 2013 to develop a collaborative dance and video project is the gift that keeps on giving. ...
College student voting doubled at KU, according to national study
The University of Kansas received a gold seal for achieving a student voting rate between 40% and 49% at the 2019 ALL IN Challenge Awards Ceremony held to recognize colleges and universities committed to increasing college student voting rates. KU is one of 169 colleges and universities to receive...
New book traces 'World of Trouble' early American couple faced for neutrality in American Revolution
The major events and players of the American Revolution are well-documented in history books. Yet the people who lived through that tumultuous period in American history are often assumed to have been patriots who fought to defy British policies and establish a new nation. A University of Kansas scholar has...