Scholarship
KU graduate awarded $112,000 Javits fellowship
Matthew Haug, a recent Kansas University graduate, has been awarded a Jacob K. Javits fellowship.
The federally funded fellowship provides up to $28,000 a year for four years of graduate study in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Haug, who received bachelor's degrees in philosophy and mathematics last spring, is currently a student assistant at the KU Center for Research. He's also enrolled in a graduate seminar on the philosophy of the mind and a German reading course.
Haug is the fifth KU student to receive a Javits fellowship since the program was established in 1985.
Haug is a graduate of Shawnee Heights High School, Tecumseh.
police
Elderly woman found dead
An elderly Douglas County woman was found dead Wednesday morning at her home, but authorities didn't think her death was the result of foul play.
The woman, whose name was withheld pending notification of her relatives, was found shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday after a postal worker noticed that the woman's mail apparently hadn't been picked up for several days, Douglas County Sheriff Rick Trapp said. The concerned postal worker called sheriff's deputies, who entered the woman's house in northern Douglas County and found the woman inside. She had lived alone, Trapp said.
An autopsy to determine how the woman died is scheduled for today.
auto safety
U.S. 59 accident injures 2
Two Baldwin teen-agers were treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a wreck south of Lawrence, authorities said Wednesday.
Holly L. Oneal, 17, and Sonya M. Parks, 18, received minor injuries in a crash that occurred shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday on U.S. Highway 59. Oneal had been stopped alongside the highway and began to merge back onto the road when she was struck from behind by a 1997 Nissan, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol accident report.
The collision occurred, the report indicated, because the Nissan, which had moved into the left lane, didn't see Oneal's 1990 Ford. Oneal apparently had been blocked by a third vehicle that had stopped to help. The driver of the Nissan, Lauren D. Pringle, 85, Baldwin, wasn't injured.
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