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Distinguished professor will discuss strengths-based approaches to educating learners with disabilities
For more than four decades, U.S. children with disabilities have had the right to be educated alongside their nondisabled peers in the classroom. However, although progress has been made in achieving this outcome, far too many students are separated from their peers without disabilities and receive education in segregated settings. ...
Travelers split on whether they would take trips in autonomous vehicles, study finds
Autonomous vehicles are becoming more of a reality as technology improves, but people are far from settled in accepting a future with driverless cars. A University of Kansas researcher has co-written a study that found when asked if they would make a trip they had recently completed in an autonomous...
Engineering's interdisciplinary computing program receives accreditation
The interdisciplinary computing program at the University of Kansas School of Engineering has received accreditation — the first program of its kind to be so recognized. ...
KU professor to be appointed to president’s science advisory board
A University of Kansas School of Engineering professor will be appointed by the president of the United States to serve on a national science and technology advisory board. ...
KU to celebrate International Education Week
From Nov. 18 to 22, units across the University of Kansas Lawrence campus will come together to celebrate International Education Week with a host of multicultural events. ...
KU graduate student selected for DoE research grant
A University of Kansas doctoral student in physics was selected as one of 49 students nationwide to take part in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program. ...
Three students named as finalists for Rhodes, Marshall, Mitchell scholarships
Three students from the University of Kansas have advanced in the competition for prestigious scholarships for study in the United Kingdom and Ireland. ...
Law professor receives International Educator Award
Virginia Harper Ho is the 2019 recipient of the George and Eleanor Woodyard International Educator Award. The award presentation will take place at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, at the Burge Union, Forum B. ...
Studies show campus diversity offices often formed in reaction to crisis; faculty interactions influence climate
A University of Kansas professor recently published a pair of articles examining how chief diversity offices are formed to deal with university campus issues of race and ethnicity and how students’ interactions with faculty influence their perceptions of campus climate. ...
Efforts to end child marriage face opposition from both sides of political spectrum
In most states, a minor can be old enough to get married but not old enough to file for divorce. In many states, the legal age to marry is lower than the age of sexual consent. ...
KU names senior administrative fellows for 2019-2020
faculty members have been selected to take part in the SAF Program for the 2019-2020 academic year. ...
KU Engineering 'hackathon' earns national ranking
The University of Kansas put on one of the nation’s top “hackathons” during the 2018-19 school year, a national organization has announced. ...
Winter family accelerates $1.7M gift to law, athletics
For University of Kansas alumni Nancy and Wint Winter Sr., the only thing as satisfying as giving was seeing the good a gift could do. ...
Taking mud volcano’s trigger debate above ground
In a new paper published in Marine and Petroleum Geology, a University of Kansas researcher disputes almost everything about a 2018 special edition of the same journal that all but absolves an energy-exploration company of responsibility for triggering an environmental disaster. ...
Dole Institute to honor Temple Grandin with Dole Leadership Prize
The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas has announced that it will honor Temple Grandin, a professor of animal science and advocate for people with autism, with the 2019 Dole Leadership Prize. ...
KU leading project to include migratory ag workers in improving health care
Migratory agricultural workers have dangerous jobs that pose threats to their health. Yet little is known about their access to medical care beyond the challenges that make it difficult for both migrant workers and health care providers to ensure needs are met. The University of Kansas is leading a project...
United Way fund drive continues with campus events, payroll deduction and call for volunteers
There is still time to support the United Way of Douglas County 2019 Lawrence campus fund drive, which concludes Nov. 27. ...
World-renowned neurologist to speak about relationship between immune cells, Alzheimer’s
World-renowned neurologist Dr. David Holtzman will talk about how targeting immune cells may be a potential therapy for Alzheimer’s disease at the 16th Takeru Higuchi Memorial Lectures at the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy on Thursday, Nov. 14. ...
KU Edwards Campus partnering with KC metro employers, community colleges, high schools for outreach events
– The University of Kansas Edwards Campus will host two events the week of Nov. 11, bringing together students, employers and community members to provide career and education pathways related to workforce-ready careers. Both events provide unique hands-on, practical experience and networking opportunities for students looking to further their academic...
'Connecting Through Poetry and Prose' presentation on Nov. 12
KU Libraries will host a Gallery Lecture Series presentation by Ignacio Carvajal, poet and assistant professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Kansas. The presentation, titled “Connecting Through Poetry and Prose,” is the second lecture in the fall Gallery Lecture Series lineup and will take...
Local Battle of the Bulge veterans share firsthand experience of the battle won 75 years ago
— U.S. Army World War II veterans Kenneth Tebow and John Martin provide rare insight into the Battle of the Bulge on its 75th anniversary. The men shared about their road to the battle, their personal stories, life after the war and reflections on Veterans Day during Mark Gerges’ Osher...
KU ranked as No. 9 best public school in the country for veterans
The University of Kansas ranks ninth nationally among public universities and first in Kansas in the Best for Vets: Colleges 2020 survey. ...
Engineering department to offer certificate in cybersecurity
The University of Kansas School of Engineering is launching a four-course cybersecurity certificate program that will provide undergraduate students with the expertise to fortify digital networks in workplaces, schools and at home. ...
KLETC announces 258th law enforcement training graduating class
Twenty-two new law enforcement officers graduated from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC) on Nov. 1. Sheriff Jeff Richards, of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, was the speaker for the ceremony in KLETC’s Integrity Auditorium. ...
Adaptive Use Musical Instrument provides 'cosmic' showcase
It’s hard to know what to call the AUMI (Adaptive Use Musical Instrument). Should it be described as an instrument, device, software or project? ...
University Dance Company Fall Concert showcases feminine strength
The University Dance Company’s Fall Concert explores themes of feminine strength, cultural identity, and gun culture in six original and innovative works choreographed by University of Kansas Department of Theatre & Dance faculty and guest artists. Projections, spoken word and dance styles ranging from ballet to modern contemporary to hip-hop...
'Black Love': A scholarly story
Eighty years after his landmark book “The Negro Family in the United States” portrayed his people devastated by slavery, Jim Crow and the Great Depression, the work of sociologist E. Franklin Frazier is still influencing scholarship on the black family. ...
Tech leader to speak at Global Entrepreneurship Week event
As part of a worldwide celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week, KU alumnus and technology innovator Brian McClendon will speak at the University of Kansas School of Business at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 21. ...
Professor lends expertise to search for new approaches to pain management
When the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services asked Distinguished Professor Barbara Timmermann to serve on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) advisory council, she was eager to share the expertise in medicinal chemistry she has developed throughout her career. As the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy professor...
Report shows how KC schools have maintained segregation through geographic, economic means
In 1954, the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education ended legal school segregation. Six decades later, many cities and school districts have found new ways to keep poor and minority students out of the most successful schools, hoard resources and maintain economic advantages. The Kansas City...