Student experience and achievement

John Marshall, Lawrence, and Graham Revare, Prairie Village, reached the championship final at the JW Patterson Debate Tournament, hosted by the University of Kentucky Sept. 28-30, taking second place in a field of more than 100 teams from across the country.

KU has its largest freshman class and its highest overall enrollment in history, according to annual data released today. The record-setting freshman class includes 5,323 new Jayhawks – an increase of 1.2% from last year’s class – while overall enrollment has grown 4.8% to 30,770 students.

KU's Undergraduate Research Award recipients are awarded a $1,000 scholarship as they work on mentored research and creative projects. Nineteen Jayhawks received an award for fall 2024.

This fall, the University of Kansas welcomed 14 students as part of the Fulbright Foreign Student Program and an additional seven students as Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants.

LAWRENCE — To foster a greater connection between the University of Kansas and the Lawrence community, The Big Event at KU will stage a day of engagement and service next month. KU students, faculty and staff are encouraged to volunteer.

A new grant of $15,000 from NIH and K-INBRE will expand opportunities for students to have authentic research lab experiences in the classroom. Faculty member Eileen Hotze’s CURE is setting the stage for further implementation in other classrooms.

KU Debate began the season with a dominating performance at the Owen L. Coon Memorial Debate Tournament, which took place Sept. 14-17 at Northwestern University. The KU team of John Marshall and Graham Revare defeated Emory University in the championship debate to win the tournament from a field of more than 100 of the top teams in the country.

University of Kansas history doctoral candidate Alicia Houser has received the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award to spend a year conducting research in Tanzania.

By turns comic and tragic, musical and literary, this play with music by Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel recounts the true story of the first kiss between two women in Broadway theatre history. Playing one weekend only, Sept. 27-29 at Murphy Hall.

The University Honors Program recognized one student and four faculty members for their unique contributions to the program at Honors Convocation, a kickoff event for first-year honors students.