University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod has said KU is officially in “stand-down mode” when it comes to figuring out whether KU basketball coaches acted improperly in the recruiting scandal that is gripping the sport. The reason, Girod told the Journal-World in November, is because ...
A prominent Jewish culture magazine recently honored a Lawrence rabbi for his work with the University of Kansas community. The Forward magazine named Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel as one of the magazine’s 50 most influential American Jews in 2018. Tiechtel and his wife, Nechama, have led Chabad of ...
A $6.9 million gift from a late geologist and his wife will help University of Kansas researchers develop a fuller understanding about early human life in the Americas. Joseph L. and Maude Ruth Cramer had established the Odyssey Archaeological Research Fund at KU in 2002 with a $1 million ...
The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved rate adjustments for housing and food service for its six universities. The University of Kansas will hold off raising rates for a standard double occupancy room at KU with a standard dining package in the coming year. However, the current cost ...
A local author is likely to make a splash with her debut novel. Kate Russell, who teaches creative writing and composition in the University of Kansas English department, sold the publishing rights to her novel “My Dark Vanessa” to William Morrow, an imprint of the publishing company ...
For the past 12 years, Sam Pepple has tried to find new homes for items no longer used around the University of Kansas. Everything from tables, chairs, lab equipment, a DNA sequencer and even a throne from China’s Qing Dynasty has passed through the large metal building that houses KU ...
“BlacKkKlansman,” a film co-written by a University of Kansas film professor, was recently nominated for four Golden Globes Awards, including best motion picture drama. Kevin Willmott, a director, screenwriter and KU professor, co-wrote the screenplay with Spike Lee. Lee was nominated ...
The claw of the CAT excavator began its destructive work Friday morning, yanking apart the Horejsi Family Athletics Center, home of KU volleyball. Pulling pieces of the 20-year-old building to the ground, the excavation crew from McPherson Wrecking of Topeka should only have a cement slab ...
Updated at 4:01 p.m. Friday University of Kansas star football player Pooka Williams has been arrested and charged with domestic battery following an incident at a KU dorm this week. KU police arrested Williams — whose full name is Anthony Ray Williams — at the KU Public Safety Office, ...
A day after University of Kansas Interim Provost Carl Lejuez announced that roughly 30 people would be laid off to deal with a $20 million budget hole, members of the KU community vented their frustrations with the university's leadership during an open forum sponsored by the University ...
University of Kansas police are investigating after hundreds of dollars of KU gear and other items were stolen from university athletic facilities. KU Police Deputy Chief James Anguiano said a series of thefts occurred at various dates starting in late October. In early November, a suspect ...
The University of Kansas will be shedding more than 150 positions to deal with a $20 million budget hole, and about 30 people will be laid off as part of that process, a university leader said Wednesday at a town hall meeting. Interim Provost Carl Lejuez said the university would eliminate ...
After Kansas Athletics posted a second straight year of financial losses, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod’s office highlighted the need to grow revenue and upgrade athletic facilities. Not mentioned was the idea of cutting expenses of the athletic department, despite new financial statements ...
Some University of Kansas students are still waiting for the check in the mail from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to pay tuition and living expenses for the semester which is days away from ending. April Blackmon Strange, director of KU's Military-Affiliated Student Center, noted ...
Updated at 4:17 p.m. Wednesday NCAA sanctions on basketball programs caught up in the Adidas fraud trial won’t be resolved until after the Final Four this spring, NCAA president Mark Emmert said, according to a Yahoo Sports report on Wednesday. Emmert, who was speaking at the Learfield ...
Carl Lejuez, interim provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas, will host the university's final budget conversation of the fall semester on Wednesday. Lejuez has been hosting the meetings since the announcement of a $20 million across-the-board budget cut at the end ...
The University of Kansas has signed an agreement with Westar Energy to have its Lawrence campus powered nearly 100 percent by wind energy by 2020. The Kansas City Star reports the 20-year agreement is expected to lower the university's utility bills about 22 percent, from 2.3 cents per ...
Fundraising was up — including a historic $50 million pledge — but Kansas Athletics still posted a more than $5 million loss as department spending again exceeded athletic revenues during the 2018 fiscal year. KU alumnus and billionaire investor David Booth made history in September 2017 ...
Rex Buchanan speaks affectionately about his home state as if he’s talking about a longtime friend. Perhaps that comes from spending decades studying its geological past and the cracks and contours that make up Kansas’ subsurface. Buchanan, director emeritus of the Kansas Geological ...
The Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas will host a special memorial display honoring the legacy of former President George H.W. Bush. The display, which will run through Dec. 31, will focus on the 41st president, who died Friday, and on his relationship with former U.S. ...