Drive: Today’s blood donors receive KU basketball T-shirt, bag

Community Blood Center will honor the success of the Kansas University men’s basketball team by giving fans who donate blood today a KU T-shirt and grab bag.

The special blood drive will be from noon until 7 p.m. today at the Lawrence Donations Center, 535 Gateway Drive. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 843-5383.

The blood center is the only blood provider for Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Honors: KU book award announced for FSA photographic study

An associate professor of theater and film has won the Vice Chancellor’s Book Subvention Award from Kansas University.

Catherine L. Preston will use the $1,500 award to obtain photographs for her upcoming book, “In Retrospect: The FSA Photographs and American Visual Memory.” The book, a history of the Farm Security Administration Office of War Information photograph collection, will be published by Smithsonian Institution Press.

The award was created in 1999 by Robert Barnhill, president of the KU Center for Research and vice chancellor for research and public service, and James Roberts, associate vice chancellor for research. It goes to a KU faculty member writing a book on humanistic research.

Education: Final dean candidate visits KU School of Engineering

The last of four finalists for dean of Kansas University’s School of Engineering is interviewing on campus this week.

Mark J. Kushner, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, met with university officials Sunday and Monday and will continue interviews today.

The other finalists are:

James A. Roberts, associate vice chancellor for research and public service and vice president of KU Center for Research Inc.

Stuart Bell, professor and head of the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama and director for Center for Advanced Vehicle Technologies.

Jeffrey S. Vitter, professor of computer science at Duke University.

The new dean, who will start July 1, will replace Carl Locke, who is retiring after 16 years as dean. Locke plans to remain a professor at KU.

Arkansas City: One dead, another injured after shooting outside bar

One man was killed and another critically injured in a shooting outside the Latino Club, an Arkansas City bar.

An unidentified man died at a local hospital Sunday night after he was shot once in the face and once in the side of his upper chest with what appears to have been a small-caliber handgun, police Chief Oren Skiles said. The man is believed to be from Oaxaca, Mexico.

The other victim, identified as Hugo Torres, 33, of Arkansas City, was taken by helicopter in critical condition to a Wichita hospital after he was shot once in the face.

The shooting apparently stemmed from a fight that started inside the club. Two suspects are being sought, Skiles said.

Gasoline prices: Pump Patrol seeks best deal

The Journal-World has found a Lawrence-area gasoline price as low as $1.32 at the Citgos at Ninth and Iowa streets and 920 N. Second St., and Conoco at Sixth Street and Crestline Drive.

If you find a lower price, please call us at 832-7154. Be prepared to leave the name and address of the business and the price. Or go to www.ljworld.com/section/gasoline to join our Pump Patrol board.