Clemson University hires KU professor to lead biology department

You're the second person who's brought up that point — thank you — and I'm looking into it. I'll post an update when I find out.

Thanks,

Matt

May 23, 2013 at 8:39 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Expanding rooftop garden at KU Union provides herbs, vegetables for campus

There's one for you now, up top. Sorry for the delay.

Thanks,

Matt Erickson

May 17, 2013 at 8:45 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

New building for KU engineering students to be named for donors

I don't have details about the building right at the moment, but watch for our KU Today edition over the summer. We're planning for a story on the building project.

Thanks,

Matt Erickson

KU reporter

May 16, 2013 at 9:14 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Dole Institute's summer events include Battle of Gettysburg panel, Dole birthday celebration

I'm not sure when that will be exactly — Bill Lacy said they're still working out who all the panelists will be. The quickest way to know will be to keep an eye on the Dole Institute website or perhaps sign up for its email list.

Thanks,

Matt Erickson

KU reporter

May 9, 2013 at 3:26 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU links: Professor sticks up for Neanderthals in NYT; blogging Topeka high-schooler picks Yale over KU

Did you try clicking the link? In my experience, the NYT lets down its paywall for external links like this, so as not to shut off readers who might wander in from other parts of the Internet. It works for me, at least. But let me know if I'm wrong, and perhaps I won't share NYT links as much.

Thanks,

Matt

May 9, 2013 at 2:08 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU links: Professor sticks up for Neanderthals in NYT; blogging Topeka high-schooler picks Yale over KU

If I understand his blog posts correctly, I don't think he included KU in that experiment. I should have made that clearer in this post, sorry. He says he just sent the emails to faculty at Yale and Amherst, the two final schools he was considering. I think KU had been ruled out by that point (based on his posts, anyway).

Thanks,
Matt

May 9, 2013 at 2:07 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Haskell's president, Chris Redman, leaving for job in Oklahoma

I'll chime in for a second: My understanding of that 26 percent figure is that's how many students were earning an associate's degree OR a bachelor's degree.

Thanks,

Matt Erickson

Journal-World

May 8, 2013 at 9:09 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Funny Facebook users stay away from politics, KU researchers find

Pennington did note one exception to the Facebook politics/humor rule: people who post jokes from political comedians — Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, etc. But even in those cases, if a joke is on one side of the political spectrum or the other, certain other people might not find it very funny, for obvious reasons. Thanks for reading.

Matt Erickson

KU reporter

May 6, 2013 at 1:10 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

University Senate pushes for more tuition assistance benefits for faculty, staff and their families

That's a point that was raised during yesterday's meeting — the accounting of "costs" for such assistance could be tricky. That's something I'll ask about when I look into this issue in more detail, which I hope to do soon.

Thanks,
Matt

May 3, 2013 at 10:34 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU events this week: climate change and energy talks during Earth Day week

Yes, it is! Thanks for asking.

-Matt

April 23, 2013 at 8:09 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )