As KU’s University Theatre prepares for its final show of the season with a documentary play depicting a tragic attack on a queer college student, the director said the production is an important reminder of queer and trans history — both in tragedy and resilience. University Theatre will ...

TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents voted unanimously Monday to approve the initial three-year contract with University of Kansas faculty and academic staff following nearly two years of wrangling. The collective bargaining agreement, including a 1% across-the-board raise this year and ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Wednesday that she had apologized to a fellow justice for comments she made during a speech at the University of Kansas last week. Sotomayor told The New York Times and other media outlets on Wednesday that she had apologized to Justice Brett M. ...

Back in 2005, Sean Pauzauskie, then a senior at KU, took the advice that many an English major ignores. “You can be a writer, but get a day job,” he was told by his mentor David Bergeron, a professor of English and well-known Shakespearean scholar. It turned out to be a good advice — ...

The leader of the University of Houston’s School of Communication is the fourth and final candidate to become the next dean of the University of Kansas’ journalism school. Jennifer Vardeman, director of the Jack J. Valenti School of Communication at the University of Houston, will give a ...

Rick Atkinson lived with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for about 15 years and is currently living with Gen. George Washington, so, yes, he had thoughts to share on the nature of war with a Lawrence crowd Monday evening. Atkinson — a best-selling military historian who said he has so studied his ...