Gifted students invited to Duke TIP program

Kansas University is looking for 100 gifted Kansas students in grades seven through 12 to participate this month in its Duke University Talent Identification Program Scholar Weekend.

The program will offer courses taught by KU faculty and graduate instructors.

The two weekends are open to students who have been identified by their schools as gifted or talented or who have participated in Duke’s Talent Identification Program. Students can choose from the following courses: “Designing Transportation for the Final Frontier,” “Mathematics through the Ages Part II” or “Film Criticism and Analysis,” all on April 16-17; and “Anthropology: A Window to the World,” “Getting to the Heart of Medical Sciences” or “Aerospace Engineering,” all on April 23-24.

Cost is $350 with overnight lodging at the Lawrence Holidome or $300 without lodging. For more information, call 864-5823 or visit www.kuce.org/programs/dtip.

Baker announces scholarship winners

Baker University has named the six recipients of this year’s Harter Scholarships, the university’s most prestigious academic scholarship.

The scholarships, given to high school seniors, include four years of tuition at Baker and a semester of study abroad at Harlaxton College in England.

The recipients were among the 198 students who competed for scholarships during three invitation-only events this academic year.

Winners are Sarah Jones, of Strong City; Renea Lindberg, of Courtland; Sarah Schmid, of Olathe; Ashley Sims, of Meade; Jonathan Vaughn, of Peculiar, Mo.; and Kirbee Yost of Chetopa.

Author to discuss book on black family

A Kansas University visiting professor will speak this week about his book that chronicles a black family’s history.

Albert Broussard, Langston Hughes visiting professor, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday on “The Stewarts: The Triumph of an African-American Family.” The lecture will be in the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium, followed by a reception in the central courtyard.

Broussard, a history professor and Elton Lewis faculty fellow at Texas A&M University, is author of “African-American Odyssey: The Stewarts, 1853-1963,” which was published by University Press of Kansas in 1998. It is one of only a handful of three-generational histories written about black families.

The lecture is free to the public.