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Photos for June 26, 2012
The Lawrence school district’s 2012 Outstanding Citizen Award winners, from left, Doug Gaston, Judy Keller and Mark Edwards are pictured. The three helped organize a fundraising campaign to improve the athletics facilities at Lawrence High School.
New Lawrence Police Department recruits are sworn in Tuesday. The recruits will begin training as part of the department’s sixth-month academy before they start patrolling the streets.
Kansas University graduate Chris Allen says Lawrence played a large part in influencing his music. Allen now lives in Los Angeles and runs a studio called Studio-Rev.
Kansas University graduate Chris Allen says Lawrence played a large part in influencing his music. Allen now lives in Los Angeles and runs a studio called Studio-Rev.
A pickup truck and a tractor that was pulling a cultivator collided Tuesday afternoon, June 26, 2012, at the intersection of U.S. Highway 24 and Kansas Highway 237 in Jefferson County. The accident site is west of the community of Perry.
A pickup truck and a tractor that was pulling a cultivator collided Tuesday afternoon, June 26, 2012, at the intersection of U.S. Highway 24 and Kansas Highway 237 in Jefferson County. The accident site is west of the community of Perry.
A sign hangs in the main lobby of Kansas University Hospital where renovation work is under way. During the past year, the hospital has added a new medical building, parking garage, surgery rooms and several new floors to help meet the growing need for its services. On Thursday, KU Hospital was ranked third among the nation's top 101 academic medical centers.
Kansas University Hospital's services, patient volume and revenues have grown since moving from a state entity to one governed by its own authority in 1998.
Kansas University Hospital nurse manager Thu Janes shows how a couch in a patient room can turn into an extra bed for visitors in a newly-opened unit on the eighth floor for patients with neurological and ear, nose and throat problems.
Mary K. Holdgraf, Fairway, takes a photograph Tuesday of the “Yarn Bombing” display outside the entrance to Spencer Museum of Art at Kansas University. “I’m a yarn bomber myself,” said Holdgraf, who works at The Studio, a knitting store in Kansas City, Mo. The exhibit will be on display through Sunday.
Kansas University Hospital opened two new floors this summer to help meet the growing need for its neurological services. Among the new features is a centralized room where patients' brain activity can be closely monitored.
Patient Robert Hostetler, left, walks with physical therapist Kristen Daulton at Kansas University Hospital on Tuesday, June 26, 2012. They were in a 32-bed unit that just opened on the eighth floor for patients with neurological or ear, nose and throat problems.
Thu Janes, a registered nurse, talks about the growth that has occurred at Kansas University Hospital since she began working there 22 years ago.
Robert Hostetler, Prairie Village, talks about his brand new room at Kansas University Hospital on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, as his daughter, Amanda Hostetler, listens. Hostetler was among the first patients in the hospital's new 32-bed unit for patients with neurological problems.
Viewed through a hole cut into a wall, volunteer Bill Crowley surveys some of the work being done on an extension to the home of Geoff and Angie Wampler-Cooper on Tuesday. The organization Professionals Helping Children, which performs building and renovation work to the homes of families with special-needs children, has adopted the Wampler-Cooper family for its yearly makeover project. The extension to the home is being constructed with a wheelchair-accessible bathroom for Chance Wampler-Cooper, who has a spinal cord birth defect.
Stacy Smith, nursing manager of the intensive care unit for the neuroscience and ear, nose and throat department at Kansas University Hospital, talks about a new 20-bed unit that she works in. The unit opened in late June and has new safety measures.
A sample of the chemical compound called H2-gamendazole that was developed by Joseph Tash, a researcher at Kansas University Medical Center. The compound temporarily stops the production of sperm, and could be used as a means of birth control.
Joseph Tash, director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Male Contraceptive Research and Drug Development, at Kansas University Medical Center, has helped develop a birth control pill for men. The KU team is getting ready to take the pill to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in hopes of beginning human clinical trials.
Kansas University ROTC Cadet Andrew Acosta participates in a training session during the fall semester 2011 at Fort Leavenworth. Army ROTC cadets train at both Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley during the year.
Madelyn Dean shows off her medal after completing the IronKids Triathalon on June 9 in Lawrence. Jeff Dean, of Lawrence, submitted the photo.
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