If you want to get an undergraduate degree in physics, there is no shortage of options in Kansas.
All six of the state’s public universities offer an undergraduate degree in physics, despite data showing that enrollment in the programs is below average at all six schools, and that few physics graduates end up being employed in Kansas or Missouri.
While every university is likely to keep offering some ...
A physicist and interim dean at the University of New Mexico has been selected to become the leader of KU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the university’s biggest academic unit.
Arash Mafi was chosen from a field of four finalists to take over as executive dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He’ll oversee a college that has 11,000 undergraduate students, 1,700 graduate students and ...
It almost is a truism in a college town: When you get a place with more space, get more couches. (The two hardest parts about moving my college-age son were the number of couches, and getting people off of them.) The situation is not quite the same at Habitat for Humanity’s new ReStore, but couches and other furniture are playing a big role in the new space.
As we reported in July, Habitat for Humanity ...
As the calendar turned to fall, inflation was soaring in Lawrence and across the state, the latest Kansas sales tax figures suggest. But they also suggest something else: Consumers never blinked.
The latest numbers from the state show sales tax collections in Lawrence were up a whopping 30% for the one-month period, compared with the same period a year ago. But Lawrence was nothing special. The statewide ...
The day after KU won the NCAA National Championship, the Journal-World set up a folding card table outside our office door to sell copies of the newspaper. We sold so many that I joked if I had gotten an MBA, I would have thought to set up two card tables.
Less visible but even busier were our online sales operations at shop.Lawrence.com. We sold newspapers and other souvenirs at a very rapid rate. It was a ...
Obviously the pilgrims chose turkey for the first Thanksgiving because the drive-thru burger joint was closed for the holiday. Maybe the history books differ on that contention, but it is a fact that I’ve got hamburgers on my mind.
Particularly, Whataburgers.
In case you have forgotten, plans were filed in June at City Hall showing that the popular hamburger chain Whataburger wants to open its first ...
