Story updated at 6:50 p.m. Wednesday, April 30: The KU Endowment Association is restructuring potentially millions of dollars in scholarships to meet new Trump administration requirements related to diversity, equity and inclusion, the Journal-World has learned. The restructuring — which ...
With questions swirling about the management of the Pentagon, a former U.S. Secretary of Defense will be delivering remarks on Wednesday in Lawrence. Robert Gates, who served as defense secretary under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, will be the keynote speaker at a University of Kansas ...
A class-action lawsuit against the NCAA that included two former Kansas basketball stars as plaintiffs was dismissed with prejudice on Monday, as the judge ruled that the lawsuit’s claims were not sufficiently timely and are already precluded by past cases. Former KU guard Mario Chalmers ...
A University of Kansas graduate was named Miss Indian World last week at the Gathering of Nations in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dania Wahwasuck, 24, a 2023 KU grad and member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi, took the title at the Gathering, which is the largest Native American powwow. Native ...
A University of Kansas center will play a key role in a new economic development program that aims to boost Kansas City’s economy by improving college-going rates and supporting entrepreneurship. The Kansas City-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has chosen KU’s Center for Community ...
The future for Allie Martinez once looked as simple as painting by numbers. In early 2020, she was named Lawrence’s Youth of the Year by the local Boys and Girls Club, she was applying to prestigious art schools around the country, and she got accepted to one of the most famous, the Art ...