When students returned to the University of Kansas campus for the fall 2020 semester, it was clear that classes wouldn’t be normal. They would be hybrid, a word that has attached itself to the pandemic like a mask to a nose (ideally).
But no one knew exactly what a hybrid education would look like, especially in terms of how many classes would be taught in person versus online. New numbers now are giving us a ...
North Lawrence is a long way from Tokyo, and it is just far enough from Massachusetts Street too. At least that is the case for Tokyo Sushi, which has moved from the 600 block of Massachusetts Street to a small North Lawrence location along the Kansas River.
Leaving busy downtown Lawrence for North Lawrence isn’t the most common move for a restaurant. But, of course, nothing has been common for the ...
Enrollment may be up slightly at the University of Kansas next school year, and the amount of money KU has in its rainy day funds after being battered by a pandemic may not be as small as you would expect.
In fact, KU’s new chief financial officer recently told a subcommittee of the Kansas Board of Regents that KU’s reserve fund balances are expected to end the fiscal year at about the same level as they ...
A $21 million welcome center along Oread Avenue — full of modern design and high-tech displays — is the latest strategy for the University of Kansas to woo prospective students to the Lawrence campus.
Plans have been filed at Lawrence City Hall for a new glass and steel structure, dubbed the Jayhawk Welcome Center, to be built alongside the existing, traditional Adams Alumni Center at 1266 Oread Ave. ...
I know there have been times my housemates have wished my spring home improvement projects were virtual. (In fairness, the fire pit project did produce both a pit and a fire.) Well, this year’s Lawrence Spring Home Show is virtual, but the projects are very real and done by professionals.
Spring is when the Lawrence Home Builders Association usually hosts the largest home improvement show in the city, but ...
The University of Kansas plans to award an honorary degree to a one-time Kansas farm boy who went on to become a leading doctor in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine.
The Kansas Board of Regents this week approved a request from KU to award an honorary degree to Dr. Barney Graham, who is the deputy director of the vaccine research center within the National Institutes of Health. KU hasn’t formally ...
