In an effort to help with the rising cost of higher education, the Kansas Board of Regents has a plan to funnel up to $50 million in new financial aid dollars to Kansas students. But it is going to require some help from both state legislators and the private sector. As part of its budget ...
The timing was perfect when Laura Hobson Herlihy received a call in early July to work as a court interpreter for immigrants speaking the Miskitu language. For the past decade, the cultural anthropologist’s summers had been spent taking graduate students to the Nicaraguan rainforest to learn ...
Without the Audio-Reader service, Kim Morrow might not have earned her master’s degree or her doctorate. Audio-Reader, which reads publications such as newspapers, magazines and best-sellers to the visually impaired, also handles special requests. In Morrow’s case, it meant finding readers ...
A researcher from the University of Kansas Health Service recently helped astronauts on the International Space Station run an experiment on how human sperm cells function in space. Joseph S. Tash, Ph.D., an emeritus professor in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology in the KU ...
The public is invited to the opening of two new exhibits at the DeBruce Center. The center, 1647 Naismith Drive, adjoins the northeast corner of Allen Fieldhouse and houses a permanent display of the original 13 rules of basketball typed by James Naismith in 1891. Naismith, the creator of the ...
The Kansas Board of Regents approved a 15 percent pay raise for Regents President and CEO Blake Flanders during its Thursday board meeting. The pay raise comes at a time when state universities, including KU, are facing budget challenges. Regents leaders said compensation studies found ...
A former student-athlete is suing the University of Kansas because, she says, mold in her dorm room made her sick. The woman had a golf scholarship and moved into the on-campus Jayhawker Towers apartments in fall 2015, the beginning of her freshman year. Throughout September and October of ...
TOPEKA — State universities in Kansas would see an $85 million funding increase over the next two years under a budget proposal that the Kansas Board of Regents approved on Thursday. Now, university leaders will have to wait and see whether state legislators will approve the request. ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents approved a pay raise on Wednesday for University of Kansas graduate teaching assistants, effective immediately. KU leaders and the union that represents the approximately 1,100 graduate teaching assistants at KU had spent the last several months in ...
Some Puerto Ricans in the University of Kansas community say they were angered but not surprised when President Donald Trump recently denied official death totals from last year’s Hurricane Maria. Three of them — Bob Augelli, KU business lecturer; Luis Gonzalez, KU geology professor; and ...
The Center for Research on Learning at the University of Kansas will be part of a $27 million federal grant program to boost literacy for struggling Kansas readers. The Kansas State Department of Education awarded the grant as part of the Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Initiative ...
The next University of Kansas community budget conversation is scheduled for 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Sept. 26 in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union. All University of Kansas faculty, staff and students are invited to attend the ongoing campus budget conversations led by interim Provost and ...
A giant blue egg, surrounded by four smaller red and blue eggs, materialized a week ago outside the Kansas Memorial Union on the University of Kansas campus. The words “Hatching March 7th” are written across the large plastic egg in the newly constructed Ascher Plaza in front of the ...
This year’s homecoming theme, “Home on the Hill,” might conjure up more than a few memories and emotions for University of Kansas alumni. Remembering defining moments during college, but also creating new memories and opportunities, is what this year’s organizers of homecoming week, ...
Hidden from view, Cortney Coke parked the Ford Explorer near the intersection of Sunflower and Sunnyside roads on the University of Kansas campus. Lights off, she sat in the darkness, waiting. It was only a matter of minutes before a Jeep Cherokee rolled past the stop sign without coming to a ...
Just six weeks after coming on staff as athletic director at the University of Kansas, Jeff Long is saying that building up the football program should take precedence over a multimillion-dollar remodel of the David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. “The stadium is still very important,” Long ...
The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas has been awarded $437,261 from the Freeman Foundation to develop a K-12 outreach program focused on Asian art, according to a news release sent out Friday. Through this two-year grant, the Spencer will partner with Salina Arts and ...
Janet Campbell said she discovers something she can’t live without while perusing the items every year at Audio-Reader’s benefit sale, For Your Ears Only. “We have found DVD players, an old turntable, a sound mixer, and last year I bought a keyboard for my grandkids,” said Campbell, ...
Story updated 6:47 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018: The University of Kansas Health System on Thursday announced its largest gift ever — a $66 million donation from The Sunderland Foundation. The donation is earmarked for an inpatient care unit specializing in blood cancers and disorders, ...
Pluto could get an upgrade in the planetary scheme, but it will take several rotations around the sun before that happens. A scientific journal recently reported that Pluto should never have been downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006. News of an upgrade would make fans of University of Kansas ...