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KU Hospital board endorses modification to affiliation agreement: Members of the planned Cancer Partners Advisory Board will be called affiliates of the Midwest Cancer Alliance; By Jonathan Kealing; May 13, 2008; The Kansas University Hospital Authority board endorsed a technical addendum to its affiliation agreement with KU Medical Center and KU Physicians Inc., in order to advance discussions on a planned Cancer Partners Advisory Board.
KU announces schedule of commencement activities: By Jonathan Kealing; May 12, 2008; Four days of festivities capped off by the annual walk down the hill will mark the 136th commencement at Kansas University.
Graduates to receive service citations: English professor, physician to be honored Saturday; By Jonathan Kealing; May 12, 2008; Two Kansas University graduates who have made a point of serving and advocating for minorities will receive the university’s distinguished service citation Saturday.
Regents to review planned tuition increases: By Jonathan Kealing; May 11, 2008; Some time Thursday morning, if all goes according to plan, the Kansas Board of Regents — and regular Kansans — will get their first look at what state universities plan in the way of next year’s tuition increases.
KUMC, KU Hospital plan for future: By Jonathan Kealing; May 10, 2008; For the first time since a new affiliation was signed between Kansas University Medical Center and KU Hospital, the joint advancement board of the two organizations met to plot its future and look back at where the two entities have been this year.
Medical Center Advancement Board selects new leadership, stakes out strategic goals: First of two annual meetings held at KU Medical Center Campus Friday morning; By Jonathan Kealing; May 9, 2008; The Advancement Board for KU's academic medical center met for the first time this year Friday and approved new leadership, new members and laid out four strategic goals, including raising $4 million by this fall.
DLI likely won’t pay $6,400 bill: By Jonathan Kealing; May 8, 2008; The Kansas University athletics department won’t be able to count on a $6,400 check from Downtown Lawrence Inc. to cover the cost of canceling its basketball banquet at the Lawrence Holidome.
Sports facility upgrades expanded: $55M to be spent on Allen Fieldhouse, other buildings; By Jonathan Kealing; May 8, 2008; With upgrades to the Kansas University football team’s facilities nearly complete, attention this summer will return to Allen Fieldhouse and the area around it for $55 million in upgrades, expansions and additions.
The $6,400 question: Should KU Athletics be reimbursed?: Downtown groups asked to pay for post-basketball season changes; By Jonathan Kealing; May 7, 2008; The weeklong celebration that engulfed Lawrence after the Kansas University Jayhawks won the national basketball championship didn’t come without a price. The final tally: more than $130,000 for the city and KU, most of it spent on police.
Tornado-siren decision is supported: By Jonathan Kealing; May 6, 2008; Despite the National Weather Service determining late Friday that a tornado did touch down in Douglas County during a storm last week, the head of Douglas County Emergency Management said the local criteria for activating the tornado sirens were not met.

Recent photos

Kansas University graduate student Seong Hoon Kim uses computers to capture and log data on the movements of construction workers at the Kansas Turnpike construction site in northern Lawrence.

A group of professors and students at Kansas University is conducting research at this Kansas Turnpike construction project in northern Lawrence. Once they’ve completed their research, the KU group hopes to determine how construction can be done more efficiently and with “minimal disruption to the traveling public,” said assistant professor Yong Bai.

Justin Cratty and Zack Arndt, KU Studio 804 students, plane the concrete foundation Monday, March 17, 2008, in Greensburg in preparation for the arrival of the new 5.4.7. Arts Center, which they helped build in Lawrence and then had trucked down to Greensburg.

The new 5.4.7. Arts Center will be located at this intersection in Greensburg

Members of the Greensburg Art Center board of directors cheer as the convoy of trucks carrying their new building pull down Sycamore Street Monday, March 17, 2008. They are, from left, Stacy Barnes, Greensburg, Chris Ballard, Havilland, and Pat Wirth, Greensburg.

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