Vice chancellor among elite businesswomen

Hispanic Business magazine has named a Kansas University administrator one of 80 elite Hispanic businesswomen in the United States.

Janet Murguia, who has served as executive vice chancellor for university relations since last year, was one of 13 women in academia picked for the list. The list also included 50 women from business and 17 from government.

Murguia oversees all internal and external relations for KU, including governmental relations and public affairs. Before coming to KU, she worked in the Clinton administration and was an official in the Gore/Lieberman presidential campaign.

Audubon fund-raiser seeks participants

Area birdwatchers can begin lining up sponsors for the Jayhawk Audubon Society’s 18th annual fund-raiser May 4-5, during which participants will spend 24 hours looking for birds in Douglas County and a few surrounding areas.

Afterward, sponsors will base their donations on the number of birds their person sees.

Money raised will be used to support several Jayhawk Audubon Society projects, including field trips, maintaining the information kiosk and the boardwalk at the Haskell-Baker Wetlands, and coursework available in 50 elementary classrooms in the county.

For more information, call Richard Bean, 979-2649.