The University of Kansas will lead a new national program that aims to provide leadership to the special education field, which is seeing far more teachers leaving it than entering it. But the new project — which recently received a $3.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education ...
TOPEKA — Fort Hays State University president Tisa Mason says the Sternberg Museum of Natural History will close to the public in mid-December because of budget problems. She said museum faculty and staff would remain this academic year to review collections, determine what must be retained ...
Hang around the finances of college athletics for just a little bit and one fact will become abundantly clear: Athletic departments are motivated to spend every dollar they get. As you would expect, the departments are led by highly competitive people, and the departments are full of highly ...
A woman who says she was brutally raped by a stranger more than 17 years ago in Lawrence had likely despaired of ever receiving justice, but she now has hope after never-before-tested evidence in the case was recently examined. The first investigation into the May 6, 2009, incident hit a dead ...
Incarcerated mothers and their children come together in an unsupervised room. There are no guards — just play, and a whole a lot of love. That’s the subject of a new documentary by Steve Lerner, a Lawrence filmmaker and psychologist, that will have its first public screening next ...
A new approximately 1-mile, accessible day-use trail is coming to Clinton State Park along with improvements to two existing boat ramps. The trail is a loop with minimal inclines, and Chris Orton, park manager at Clinton State Park, said the project is a part of a larger effort to revamp a ...
