- Editor to receive 2014 William Allen White Foundation honor at KU
- June 18, 2013
- Paul Steiger, an editor who has worked for the Wall Street Journal and the nonprofit news group ProPublica, will be the recipient of the 2014 William Allen White Foundation National Citation at Kansas University in February.
Video: KU camp game highlights: June 12
KU camp game highlights from June 12, 2013. New player numbers: Frank Mason 0; Wayne Selden 1; Brannen Greene 14; Joel Embiid 21; Conner Frankamp 23; Tarik Black 25. Watch »
Video: Perry Ellis talks about playing with Conner Frankamp and getting teased about losing his Wichita scoring title
Kansas sophomore forward Perry Ellis talks about playing with Conner Frankamp and getting teased about losing his Wichita scoring title to the freshman during an interview on June 11, 2013. Watch »
Video: Jamari Traylor describes why he became emotional when complimented at camp by Bill Self
Kansas forward Jamari Traylor describes why he became emotional when complimented at camp by Bill Self on Monday, June 10, 2013. Watch »
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- Kansas Board of Regents to vote on proposed tuition, fee increases
- June 18, 2013
- Students attending Kansas University, and other state public universities, will find out how much they will have to pay after the Kansas Board of Regents votes Wednesday on tuition and fee proposals. By Scott Rothschild
- Decisions on KU budget cuts now in hands of deans, other leaders
- June 17, 2013
- Now that Gov. Sam Brownback has approved a budget, Kansas University leaders have about two weeks to determine just where the damage will fall from about $7.5 million in state funding cuts for the coming year. By Matt Erickson
- Triple threat: Young trio wins national music competition
- June 16, 2013
- A Lawrence-based music trio is performing in New York City Sunday after winning Grand Prize in the 2013 National Young Artists Chamber Music and Ensemble Competition, sponsored by the National League of Performing Arts.
- Officials cheer $10 million expansion of bioscience incubator at KU
- June 14, 2013
- It was a bit of déjà vu Friday morning for Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little. One of the first things she did after coming to KU in 2009, she remembered, was to stick a shovel into a hillside on the university’s West Campus to mark the groundbreaking for a new business incubator. On Friday, she was there again to do much the same thing. By Matt Erickson
- KU to choose among internal candidates for new vice provost job
- June 13, 2013
- With a new university-wide curriculum going into place this fall, Kansas University will fill a new administrator job this summer to oversee undergraduate academics. KU on Thursday announced four KU faculty members as finalists for the new position, to be called vice provost and dean of undergraduate studies. By Matt Erickson
- New curator plans lunch-hour tour of updated ‘Roots and Journeys’ exhibit
- June 13, 2013
- The Spencer Museum of Art’s new curator of global indigenous art will lead a lunch-hour tour on Friday of her inaugural exhibit. “Too often, ideas about ‘natives’ are linked to outdated stereotypes, which can make these communities seem frozen in a particular time and place,” she says. “The reality is that their traditions have undergone as many transformations in form, medium, meaning and aesthetics as European or Asian art has.”
- Researchers from far and wide spend summer weeks at KU’s ‘Stats Camp’
- June 12, 2013
- Bob Heiser says this is like a vacation for him. No, really. Heiser drove for 23 hours from Maine to be in Lawrence, where he’s spending the week learning about statistics as one of 260 researchers from around the country taking part in a Kansas University summer program called “Stats Camp.” By Matt Erickson
- $10 million biotech center expansion groundbreaking set for Friday at KU
- June 10, 2013
- Gov. Sam Brownback will join Kansas University, city and business leaders for a groundbreaking ceremony to note the $10 million expansion of the Bioscience & Technology Business Center, which is already the largest business incubator network in the Midwest.
- KU professor helps discover earliest human tumor ever found
- June 10, 2013
- If David Frayer has his way, the word “Neanderthal” will one day no longer be an insult. For years, the Kansas University professor of anthropology has argued that Neanderthals were more closely related to today’s humans than people realized. And now, Frayer has helped discover something else Neanderthals have in common with humans: They could develop tumors. By Matt Erickson
- KU Med Center researcher among scientists studying mice following 30-day space orbit
- June 10, 2013
- For nearly 24 hours, Joseph Tash and about 20 other American scientists worked continuously in a lab in Moscow last month to get everything they could out of the prize they’d been given. Their gift: six mice, just returned from a 30 days in Earth’s orbit. Tash and the others had been picked to study the effects of the space journey on different parts of the mice’s bodies — in Tash’s case, their reproductive organs. By Matt Erickson
- Amid budget cuts to higher education, KU gets funding for adult stem cell center
- June 7, 2013
- As Kansas University officials bemoaned legislative budget cuts, Kansas Board of Regents member Ed McKechnie wondered if those cuts could be alleviated somewhat by diverting funds that KU received in another area but didn’t request. McKechnie, of Arcadia, was talking about the $2 million allocated over two years to start and run the Midwest Stem Cell Therapy Center at the KU Medical Center. By Scott Rothschild
- KU, all regents schools seek tuition, fee increases
- June 6, 2013
- The cost of going to Kansas University next year will likely go up again. In the wake of budget cuts to higher education, approved by the Kansas Legislature, officials on Thursday unveiled tuition increase proposals. By Scott Rothschild
- Public invited to see building constructed by KU architecture students
- June 6, 2013
- The newest building designed and constructed by the Kansas University Studio 804 architecture class will be on display at an open house Saturday.
- KU Audio-Reader accepting donations for annual music sale fundraiser
- June 6, 2013
- The Kansas University Audio-Reader Network is seeking donations of music-related goods for its annual “For Your Ears Only” fundraiser sale.
- KU’s Mini College students back on campus for a week
- June 5, 2013
- About 50 students sat listening to a lecture by KU professor Jan Kozma on Wednesday afternoon in Kansas University’s Spooner Hall. But a few things made this lecture a bit different from the typical one. For one, the students applauded when it was over. That’s because it was during KU’s Mini College, a program that allows adults to live the college experience for a week. By Matt Erickson
- KU Med Center professor passes through Lawrence during walk across Kansas for stroke research
- June 5, 2013
- Walking across the state of Kansas in about three weeks isn’t easy: You’ll get blisters, your feet will ache endlessly and you may find yourself covered in ticks after hiking through tallgrass prairie. But it still doesn’t compare to what stroke survivors go through, and that’s part of why Sandra Billinger, an assistant professor at the Kansas University Medical Center, is finishing up a 570-mile walk across the state. By Matt Erickson
- KU planning to launch 15 new online programs over 5 years under new deal with startup company
- June 4, 2013
- Kansas University has not been a leader in the area of online education, the school’s leaders have admitted. But that might change as the result of an agreement KU has signed with an online-education startup company called Everspring. By Matt Erickson
- KU officials evaluating effects of Legislature’s budget cuts
- 04:33 p.m., June 3, 2013 Updated 04:57 p.m.
- After the Kansas Legislature approved higher education budget cuts that one Kansas University official called “devastating,” KU leaders are working to figure out just where those cuts are going to fall. By Scott Rothschild and Matt Erickson
- KU picks architects for new School of Business building
- June 3, 2013
- Kansas University has selected two architectural firms to design a $60 million building for the KU School of Business, it announced Monday.
- For KU architecture professor, prestigious Polish award is more than a solo honor
- 12:00 a.m., June 3, 2013 Updated 05:50 p.m.
- Wojciech Lesnikowski’s father, a lawyer and politican in pre-World War II Poland, never got much recognition in the country he served. But now his only son, a distinguished professor of architecture at Kansas University, has. Lesnikowski earlier this month became the eighth person to receive a Laurel award from the city of Krakow, where he studied as a young man. By Matt Erickson
- Prize-winning scholars, authors fill Hall Center’s next lecture series lineup
- June 2, 2013
- The Hall Center for the Humanities has announced the lineup for its 2013-2014 Humanities Lecture Series. All lectures are free and open to the public.
- Budget advances with ‘devastating’ cuts to KU
- June 1, 2013
- Kansas University Medical Center will lose at least 30 nursing student slots and 15 residency positions and the Lawrence campus will lose 38 faculty positions under budget cuts advancing Saturday through the Legislature, a KU official said. By Scott Rothschild
- More than 700 scholars coming to KU for conference on literature, environment
- May 28, 2013
- For what may be the biggest academic conference ever held at Kansas University, hundreds of scholars from around the world will flock to Lawrence this week to examine where the humanities and nature intersect. By Matt Erickson
- KU medicinal plant research garden will open for tours
- May 28, 2013
- The Kansas University Native Medicinal Plant Research Garden will host tours at 2 p.m. on June 2 for any interested community members.
- KU graduate is pioneering advocate for people with disabilities in Vietnam
- May 27, 2013
- As she prepared to graduate from Kansas University with her master’s degree in 2004, Yen Vo told the Journal-World she planned to work for a U.S.-based aid agency for people with disabilities in Vietnam. It didn’t take her long to set a new course. In the time since, she’s started a disability resource group unique in Vietnam, but she says she has a lot of work left to do. By Matt Erickson
- Families invited to free ‘Wild Gardens’ event at KU Natural History Museum
- May 23, 2013
- Families can learn a bit about the science behind gardening as the summer months approach at a free event at the Kansas University Natural History Museum this weekend.
- Buran Theatre brings nightmares to Naismith Drive
- Traveling theater group recasts show for each performance
- May 23, 2013
- The Buran Theatre Company is a traveling theater with a twist. Where a regular touring company casts a show, rehearses, and then takes it on the road, Buran starts from scratch at each location. They’ll be performing this weekend at the Inge Theater on the KU campus performing “Nightmares: A Demonstration of the Sublime.”
- KU law students raise $4,000 for Willow Domestic Violence Center
- May 20, 2013
- A Kansas University law student group handed over a $4,000 donation to the Willow Domestic Violence Center in Lawrence on Monday after a fundraiser last month.
- Sun shines on KU graduates’ smiles as they celebrate commencement
- May 19, 2013
- The rain ended and the clouds parted just in time for Kansas University’s commencement exercises to begin Sunday morning, and it seemed meant to be, Joel Coon said. “Just divine intervention here,” Coon said, looking up at the sky past the brim of his cap. Coon, an art history and anthropology graduate from Topeka, and several thousand other KU graduates took a few hours to celebrate their moving on. By Matt Erickson
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