Let’s do some news and notes from around town:
— My office vending machine is bigger than yours. At least I’m guessing that’s the case. I treat the Dollar General store in North Lawrence like my own personal vending machine, since it is just a block away from the Journal-World offices.
Apparently, word has gotten out in the dollar store world about that lucrative arrangement, because now plans are in ...
Lawrence’s largest natural gas utility on Wednesday committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions much sooner than once anticipated.
Black Hills Energy now has committed to have net zero greenhouse gas emissions in its natural gas utility by 2035, the company said as part of its annual sustainability report released Wednesday. Previously, the company had committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by ...
Updated at 2:35 p.m. Monday
The University of Kansas has inched ahead two more spots in the closely watched university rankings from U.S. News & World Report, which published its 2023 edition on Monday.
KU finished No. 56 among all public schools ranked by the media company, up from No. 58 in last year’s report. Among all universities — both public and private — KU moved up one spot to No. 121.
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The University of Kansas has received a nearly $1 million federal grant to build a small scale manufacturing facility that will help start-up drug firms and other biotech companies create critical, early-stage batches of their products.
KU announced on Friday that the university has received a $958,000 grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration to create a specialized type of facility known as a Good ...
KU and Wichita State are getting serious about building a large medical school complex in downtown Wichita, and now the project has a size and a price tag: nearly a half-million square feet and $302 million.
The two universities will seek approval from the Kansas Board of Regents next week to formally begin working on the project, although several details about how the facility will be funded are still to be ...
Somehow, our next-door neighbor Kansas City, Kansas, has become the regional hub for both NASCAR and professional soccer. (You’ve got your next reality TV hit if you combine those two tailgate parties.) But a new national ranking suggests that such diversity may be spot on: Kansas City, Kansas, is the most ethnically diverse city in the region, and the competition isn’t particularly close.
Lawrence — and ...
