A University of Kansas researcher who is finding new ways to detect cosmic rays that can answer questions about the universe has won a coveted MacArthur Fellowship, often referred to as a “genius grant.” Steven Prohira, an assistant professor in KU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, is one of 25 winners of an $800,000 fellowship grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the ...
There is no shortage of advice that ends with the command “follow the money.” But what does the money often follow? Homes, many times. So, perhaps it should be no surprise that there’s news of a bank deciding to expand into Eudora. Eudora is the Douglas County community that will be closest to the new Panasonic electric vehicle battery plant that is expected to produce 4,000 jobs and $4 billion in ...
When news emerged that Panasonic was going to build a $4 billion, 4,000-job electric vehicle battery plant in De Soto — about 20 minutes from Lawrence — a natural question followed: Would this massive project put Lawrence on an eastward tilt for the first time in a long time? If you have followed Lawrence development, you know new growth has been pretty westward oriented for decades. But this battery plant ...
A prominent downtown parking lot is no longer set to be donated to the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center for a unique multistory housing project. City commissioners at a Sept. 13 meeting had told city staff to begin working on a plan that could include donating a city-owned parking lot — a to-be determined one along Vermont Street — to Bert Nash for what was anticipated to be a three-story building ...
I hear people complain that their stock portfolios are creating no growth. I don’t know what they’re talking about. My stock portfolio is growing my ulcer by the day. Given that, you would think news of a nearly 10% growth rate in a multimillion-dollar fund would be unequivocally good news. Yet, that is not entirely the case. In the world of sales tax collections in 2022, a 10% growth rate isn’t what it ...
More KU students soon may be seeing mom or dad around campus. No, there’s not a new plan to get parents on the campus more often, but University of Kansas leaders are unveiling a new program to get more children of KU employees to enroll at the university. The plan is a simple one: Have the university pay a greater portion of their children’s tuition. Under the new plan, children or other dependents of ...