Photos from Chancellor Robert Hemenway's career at KU. December 8, 2008
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Chancellor Robert Hemenway, shown at his office in Strong Hall, says the challenges that face the university are similar to those facing all Kansans - chiefly economic challenges.
Tom Kivisto, center, breaks ground for the Anderson Family Football Complex at Kivisto Field in this October 2006 photo. With him are Kansas University Athletic Director Lew Perkins, left, and Chancellor Robert Hemenway. Kivisto was the head of SemGroup LP in Tulsa, Okla., an oil marketer that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection July 22. The filing has put $140 million in payments for crude oil purchased in the last two months from Kansas oil fields in limbo.
Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway, right, and KU School of Engineering Dean Stuart Bell visit the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling Site.
Chancellor Robert Henmenway addressed the class of 2008. A banner acknowledging the football team's Orange Bowl victory and men's basketball team's national championship hangs in the background.
Kansas coach Bill Self, right, speaks at a news conference Thursday at Hadl Auditorium about his intentions to stay with the Jayhawks. An agreement on a new contract has been made in principle, though the details of Self's extension haven't been announced. At middle is Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway, and at left is KU athletic director Lew Perkins.
KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway talks with wounded soldiers Wednesday at Fort Leavenworth. A new program will allow wounded soldiers to earn their master's degrees while remaining in the Army.
Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway, left, Head Football Coach Mark Mangino, and Athletic Director Lew Perkins surround the Orange Bowl trophy at midcourt during a halftime recognition ceremony for the football team at Allen Fieldhouse in this file photo. Lew Perkins controls the price of the sports pass that allows KU students into football and men's basketball games.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway presents the Chancellors Club Career Teaching Award to Mohamed El-Hodiri. El-Hodiri has been an economics professor at KU for 40 years.
Bob and Mary Kay Stephens, at left, are honored for their support of Kansas University at a surprise party. Chancellor Robert Hemenway presented a "doctor of philanthropy diploma" to the couple, with the assistance of Baby Jay. The gathering was Oct. 1 at the home of Frank and Barbara Becker.
Michelle Rissky, Topeka, who graduated Sunday with a degree in biology, greets KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway at the chancellor's reception for graduates Sunday.
Sen. Pat Roberts talks with Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway after addressing the Advisory Committee on Science, Technology and the Future at KU's Adams Alumni Center. After the Tuesday meeting, Roberts said he likes the state's chances in the national competition for the $451 million National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, left, chats with Geoffrey Hamilton-Fairley, chairman of OncImmune Ltd., and John Robertson, the company's founder and chief scientific officer, as Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway looks on following a welcome-to-Kansas event Tuesday at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Justin Leverett, a Carbondale, Ill., freshman, rests his head on Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway's shoulder as the two joke. Leverett and Hemenway were preparing for a group photo of the Chancellors Club Scholars on Tuesday at the chancellor's mansion.
Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway delivers the commencement speech to graduates on Sunday at Memorial Stadium.
Rep. Lee Tafanelli, R-Ozawkie, right, presents Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway an American flag in a ceremony in the Statehouse. The flag was flown over Camp Sapper II, Ali Air Base in Iraq, the headquarters of the 891st Engineer Battalion.
Between Kansas University chancellor Robert Hemenway, left, and head coach Bill Self, Mario Chalmers raises the Big 12 Tournament MVP trophy.
Richard Lariviere, far right, and his wife, Janis, hold up their new Kansas sweatshirts given by Chancellor Robert Hemenway, left, after Lariviere was introduced as the next KU provost.
KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway delivers his traditional speech to the KU football team and coaches during training camp.
Kansas Chancellor Robert Hemenway, left, and athletic director Lew Perkins check out the Kansas Relays. Announced four-day attendance for the event was 24,200, the second-largest crowd ever for the Relays. Below, Fans train their eyes on the start of the invitational men's 100-meter dash.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius displays a photo of herself with Kansas University's Baby Jay mascot. The photo was a gift for the governor Thursday at a ceremonial bill-signing of a state law that allows university classified staff members to leave the state civil service system. At right is KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway.
Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway makes his way in front of KU's Watson Library with a little help from Mary Ann Rasnak, director of Services for Students with Disabilities. Hemenway traded places with a KU student who uses a wheelchair and attended the student's classes and checked out books from the library. The student, Jason Schrage, a senior from Iowa City, Iowa, spent the day learning about university administration.
Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins, left, and Chancellor Robert Hemenway chat before the start of a men's basketball game against Villanova at Allen Fieldhouse. Hemenway says KU isn't likely to follow the Vanderbilt model and merge its athletic department with the rest of the university.
Kansas Athletic Director Lew Perkins hoists Chancellor Robert Hemenway's arm in this file photo during a news conference in which Perkins was introduced as KU's new athletic director. The arm-hoisting was in response to a question about the major reasons Perkins took the job. Perkins was named KU's athletic director in June.
Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway, left, greets Jeff Sowder, president of the board of the Kansas Masonic Foundation, at a reception at the Kansas University Medical Center. KU announced a $15 million gift from the foundation that helped the university reach its goal of $500 million in the "KU First: Invest in Excellence" campaign.
Being named a patron of the KU Friends of the Library is just one of many bonds built between Bob Dole, left, and Kansas University through the years since Dole enrolled at the university. Dole's patron status was made official by KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway, right, during a 1997 visit to campus by the former senator.
Breaking ground for the new Dole Institute of Politics at Kansas University are, from left, institute director Richard Norton Smith, KU benefactor Polly Bales of Logan, Elizabeth Dole, former Sen. Bob Dole, Gov. Bill Graves and KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway. The 1999 ceremony was at the Lied Center, next door to the site of the institute.
KU chancellor Robert Hemenway leaves Allen Fieldhouse last Sunday. Hemenway helped the Jayhawks land Bill Self as their new head men's basketball coach.
Kansas University interim athletic director Drue Jennings, left, looks on as KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway, second from right, greets Illinois basketball coach Bill Self, center, who arrived with his family, including daughter Lauren, right, at Lawrence Municipal Airport. Though Hemenway and Jennings declined comment on the matter Sunday when Self arrived, a news conference has been scheduled today to introduce Self as the next Kansas men's basketball coach.
A. Drue Jennings, a KU graduate and former CEO of Kansas City Power and Light Company, left, was named interim athletic director after Chancellor Robert Hemenway announced that Al Bohl was fired from his position as athletics director at KU.
State Rep. Bill Reardon, D-Kansas City, left, talks with Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway before a meeting of the House Education Budget Committee at the Statehouse in Topeka. Hemenway addressed the committee, proposing the elimination of bureaucratic procedures as a way to counteract budget cuts and save KU money.
Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway and KU women's basketball players -- including Leila Mengüç, center, and Blair Waltz, right -- give Shawn Sivyer, 14, of Tonganoxie an autographed basketball at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. The players, coaches and chancellor visited patients and gave away KU merchandise Thursday at the hospital.
Executive vice chancellor Janet Murguia, left, and Chancellor Robert Hemenway chat with Kansas University students, from left, Daniel Crenshaw, Wichita; Erika Armstrong, Kansas City, Kan.; and Michael Crawford, Lawrence; on their first day of classes. Murguia and Hemenway spent Thursday passing out Kemper Awards to honor instructors for excellence in teaching.
Kansas Chancellor Robert Hemenway, center, addresses KU's football team before practice. Monday evening's session at Memorial Stadium was the last chance for the public to watch the Jayhawks until Fan Appreciation Day on Aug. 21.
Exercise therapist James LeCheminant, left, works with Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway on the treadmill at Robinson Gymnasium. Hemenway is among the participants in a special weight-loss program at the Energy Balance Lab who have lost a substantial amount of weight. Inset, Hemenway in March 1998.
KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway gives a final salute to the class of 2002.
KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway addresses the Kansas Board of Regents while presenting a tuition proposal. Wednesday's proposal would increase tuition and fees by nearly $300 a semester for Kansas resident undergraduate students taking 15 hours of credit. The proposal also included an increase in student financial aid.
Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway tells the story of Braer Rabbit and the Tar Baby to third-graders at Silver Lake Elementary School in Silver Lake. Five chief executive officers of the six Kansas Board of Regents universities, along with some of the universities' mascots, visited the grade school Wednesday to deliver a valentine to students and emphasize the importance of state funding for all levels of education in Kansas.
Kansas University's 13th athletics director Allen Bohl, left, promises to paint the state of Kansas crimson and blue, the same colors as his tie. Bohl was introduced to the media Thursday by KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway, right, who loaned the former Fresno State University athletics director the KU-colored tie earlier in the day.
Waiting to testify, Donald Hagen, executive vice chancellor of the Kansas University Medical Center, left, Chancellor Robert Hemenway, center, and Provost David Shulenburger check their notes before a session of the House budget-writing subcommittee.
Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway applauds KU's scholars during halftime at the Kansas-Colorado football game. The students, including KU's National Merit Scholars, took the field and were recognized during Saturday's game.
Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts, left, and KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway are setting their sights on increasing the amount of federal grant funding the university receives, especially in the area of biomedical research.
KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway is interviewed in his office in this photo from April 28, 2000.
KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway is pictured with Dorothy Lynch, a KU alumna from Salina, who was part of the search committee that hired Hemenway.
KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway is pictured in his office in this photo from April 2000.
KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway is pictured in a meeting with various KU leaders, including former Provost David Shulenburger, far left.
KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway leads a class he was teaching in this photo from April 2000.
A trademark smile and straw hat make Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway easily recognizable on the KU campus.
KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway asks for a show of hands of students whose favorite ice cream is chocolate during a visit Sept. 10, 1998, to Eudora Elementary School. In addition to talking about ice cream, Hemenway tackled a load of questions about his job and the university.
KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway is pictured in his office in this photo June 24, 1998.
KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway is pictured with KU professor Roberta Johnson in this photo from April 8, 1998.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway and his wife his wife, Leah, visit with members of media January 8, 1995, at the Adams Alumni Center.
Sandy Praeger, left, and Barbara Ballard visit with Chancellor Robert Hemenway, right, in March of 1995.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway and other KU employees walk May 5, 1995. At right is Delbert M. "Del" Shankel who was the interim chancellor of the University of Kansas from 1980-1981, and again from 1994-1995.
KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway is pictured in his office shortly after becoming chancellor in June 1995.
Former KU football coach Glen Mason, center, chats with Chancellor Robert Hemenway, right, on campus August 20, 1995.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway holds a town hall meeting in August of 1995 sponsored by Student Union Activities in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway holds a town hall meeting in August of 1995 sponsored by Student Union Activities in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway is pictured in this undated file photo.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway meets with members of the K-10 committee June 19, 1995.
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