Research project to estimate cost of academic programs

A Kansas University professor has been awarded a grant to find ways to estimate costs for academic programs.

Christopher Morphew, assistant professor of teaching and leadership, received the $28,108 grant from the Association for Institutional Research.

He plans to use data from the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty and Baccalaureate and Beyond to estimate costs based on type of program, type of institution and geographic region.

The project, which will start in June, also will involve Bruce Baker, also an assistant professor of teaching and leadership at KU.

Run in the Sun race scheduled for May 4

Kansas University Strategic Learning Center’s second-annual Run in the Sun benefit race will be May 4.

The 5K race will begin at 8:05 a.m. at South Wind Twelve Theatres, 3433 Iowa, and continue on the walking trails adjacent to the theater. A one-mile walk will begin at 9:15 a.m.

The registration fee is $15 if postmarked by Monday. After that, registration is $20. Race-day registration begins at 6:30 a.m.

The KU Strategic Learning Center is a nonprofit tutoring center that is part of the university’s Center for Research on Learning.

For more information about the race or the center, call 331-3236 or visit the center’s Web site at www.smarttogether.org.

KU Harmonie presents chamber music concert

KU Harmonie will perform at 7:30 p.m. today in room 130 in Murphy Hall at Kansas University.

The student ensemble includes various woodwind, brass and percussion instruments and plays chamber music.

Under the direction of KU music professors Timothy Oliver and James Barnes and graduate student Trey Skaggs, the ensemble will perform “Suite Francaise” by Guy Woolfender; “September Dances” by Jean Francaix; “Divertimento” by J.F. Doppelbauer; and “Parthia No. 3” by Anton Rosetti.

The free concert is open to the public.

Kansas City author to read poetry at HINU

Gloria Vando, a Kansas City writer and publisher, will read her poetry at 3 p.m. Thursday in Ross Hall at Haskell Indian Nations University.

Vando grew up in Puerto Rico and New York City. Her books include “Promesas: Geography of the Impossible” and “Shadows & Supposes.”

The free event is open to the public. Program honors KU women

Two Kansas University organizations will honor outstanding women connected to the university at an awards dinner today.

The Women’s Recognition Program, organized by the Commission on the Status of Women and the Emily Taylor Women’s Resource Center, will conduct its annual event at 7:30 p.m. in the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union.

The program will present 11 awards to outstanding KU women. Sally Frost Mason, provost at Purdue University and former dean of KU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will speak at the event.

KU Med Center schedules seminar about breast cancer

The Kansas University Medical Center will play host to a breast cancer awareness seminar from noon to 1 p.m. April 30.

The event, at the Theo and Alfred M. Landon Center on Aging, 3599 Rainbow Blvd. in Kansas City, Kan., will help women discover if they are at high risk for breast cancer, and if they are, how they can help prevent it.

Lori Ranallo, a nurse clinician at the KU Med Center, will lead the program. Lunch will be served.

The program is free, but preregistration is required. To register or learn more, contact the KU Med Physician Referral Service at 913-588-1227 or register online at www.kumed.com.