School of Engineering offers camp for girls

Registration is under way for a Kansas University engineering camp for girls entering ninth through 12th grades.

Project Discovery, which will be June 1-7, is designed to give teenage girls exposure to career opportunities in engineering.

KU faculty members will teach participants to use fundamental concepts in math, chemistry and physics to solve engineering design problems.

Enrollment, which is open through May 16, is limited to the first 40 participants. The camp costs $200 and includes lodging, meals and lab materials.

To register, contact Tia Smith at 864-2936 or tiasmith@ku.edu. More information can be found at www.engr.ku.edu.

News show to explore human sexuality class

Controversy surrounding a Kansas University human sexuality class will be discussed at 8:30 p.m. today on “Kansas Week,” a public television news program on KTWU, Sunflower Broadband channel 11.

Journalists scheduled to appear include Dave Ranney, Lawrence Journal-World; Phillip Brownlee, opinion editor at the Wichita Eagle: and Sarah Holladay, a Leawood senior at Kansas State University.

Holladay produced a film segment on the controversy that includes comments by Sen. Susan Wagle, R-Wichita, who introduced a state budget amendment aimed at preventing instructors from showing “obscene” videos in human sexuality classes.

KU student awarded forest research grant

A Kansas University graduate student in geography has received a grant to help forest managers better understand the lands they oversee.

L. Monika Moskal, originally from Poland, was one of about 200 researchers to receive awards from Sigma Xi, a scientific research society.

She used the $500 award to help pay for a fall 2002 trip to Yellowstone National Park, where she gathered field samples of forest regeneration densities for her research.

Moskal works with the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing program. She analyzes satellite images and compares them with data taken from the area being studied.

KU Med offers expo on cancer awareness

Kansas City, Kan. — KU Med will offer a cancer awareness and prevention exposition April 26.

The expo, from 8 a.m. to

1 p.m. in the hospital’s main lobby, will include information about types of cancer. Free screenings for prostate, skin and oral cancers as well as cholesterol and blood pressure will be offered.

The expo is free, but registration is required by calling (913) 588-1227.