Bomb threat leads police to search Lawrence High

A bomb threat Tuesday morning sent police to Lawrence High School.

Sgt. Mike Pattrick of the Lawrence Police Department said Wednesday that a call had come into the dispatch center just before 10:30 a.m. The caller claimed there was a bomb inside the high school, 19th and Louisiana streets.

Officers searched the school. No device was found and students were not evacuated. Police have interviewed a 16-year-old student in connection with the threat, Pattrick said, but no arrest was made.

Driver arrested after allegedly hitting police car

Lawrence Police arrested a 28-year-old man early Wednesday after he allegedly drove his car into a parked patrol car.

Police said the driver had backed into an officer parked in a lot at 845 Miss.

According to the police report, the driver then took off running. Officers caught up with him. The suspect was arrested on charges of driving under the influence, leaving the scene of an accident, interfering with the duties of an officer and driving with a suspended license.

KU changing phone numbers

Kansas University students living on campus soon will have new phone numbers.

All KU numbers with the prefix “312” will switch to “812” beginning May 31. Until then, callers can use either 312 or 812 when dialing students.

The last six digits of phone numbers will remain the same.

The switch will allow KU to add more student phone numbers in the future.

Brain researcher to speak today at KU about memory

Kansas City, Kan. A leading researcher in determining how the brain stores memory will speak today at KU Medical Center.

William Greenough, chairman of the department of psychology, psychiatry and cell and structural biology at the University of Illinois, will speak at noon in Ricke Auditorium.

Greenough’s research focuses on fragile X syndrome, a genetic mutation that prohibits regular brain function.

The speech is part of the Kansas Colloquia on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

KU students honored for engineering paper

Two Kansas University engineering students won first place in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers regional paper contest.

Travis Plummer, Baxter Springs senior, and Bharath Parthasarathy, Madurai, India, senior, received a $800 cash prize at the conference, which was April 20 in Houston.

Their paper discussed a simulator that tests and calibrates a radar used by KU’s Remote Sensing Laboratory to map layers of Greenland’s ice sheet. The simulator enables researchers to validate the accuracy of sensitive radar equipment.