KPR dedication planned

Kansas Public Radio will formally dedicate its new home during an event Monday.

The dedication gathering will be from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at 1120 W. 11th St. It is adjacent to the Baehr Audio-Reader Center.

The broadcasting facility was built with $2.2 million in private funds. It replaces the Broadcasting Hall near the Military Science Building on Kansas University’s main campus.

Book award winner to speak at museum

A book award winner from Friends University in Wichita will give a public lecture Sept. 24 at Kansas University.

Gretchen Cassel Eick, associate professor of history at Friends, won the 2003 Byron Caldwell Smith Book Prize from KU’s Hall Center for the Humanities.

She wrote “Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72.”

In its citation on the book, the prize committee wrote, “The author writes not the history of a mid-sized Midwestern city during the Civil Rights era, but rather explains how the larger story of the movement cannot be understood without the one she tells about Wichita.”

Eick will speak at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 24 at the Spencer Museum of Art. A reception and book-signing will follow.

Engineering career fair open to all KU students

Kansas University students will get a chance to speak with about 50 prospective employers Wednesday during an Engineering and Computer Science Career Fair.

The fair, from noon to 5 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom, is open to all KU students. Between 600 and 700 students are expected to attend.

For more information, visit www.career.engr.ku.edu or call the Engineering Career Services Center at 864-3891.

University sets exams

Kansas University has announced the following final examinations:

• Ivonne Heinze, linguistics, “Kaqchikel and Spanish Language Contact: The Case of Bilingual Mayan Children,” 10:45 a.m. today, 418 Blake Hall.
• Christy M. McCain, ecology and evolutionary biology, “Ecological Gradients in Diversity and Abundance: A Search for Patterns and Processes in Small Mammal Communities,” 3:30 p.m. Oct. 16, 1005 Haworth Hall.