By late 2024, the University of Kansas hopes to be providing in-person classes to more than 100 students at a university in mainland China.
The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved a plan for KU to begin teaching undergraduate and graduate-level education courses at the Zhejiang Normal University in Jinhua, a city in eastern China of about 7 million people.
KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said KU became ...
A crowd of about 70 real estate agents had a topic on their minds when Lawrence Mayor Lisa Larsen attended their luncheon meeting on Tuesday — homelessness.
The topic was on the minds of Realtors because it certainly is on the minds of potential homebuyers. One agent said he’s recently had two out-of-town clients hire him to find homes in Lawrence only to give him instructions to start looking at the ...
When about a hundred local real estate agents gathered in a west Lawrence conference room on Thursday, they expected to hear an update on the massive building project underway at the Panasonic battery plant in De Soto.
They ended up hearing almost as much about another building project underway. This one, however, doesn’t involve any hammers and nails.
Twisting of arms, though, might be involved.
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Lawrence, you’ve certainly said you want minigolf.
“On the Facebook communities and stuff, you are always hearing people say, at least once a quarter, ‘someone should do minigolf,” Lawrence entrepreneur Matt Baysinger told me.
Well, Lawrence, soon you are going to get two stories of it.
I reported last week that Baysinger and his Kansas City-based company Swell Spark had signed a deal to buy the ...
The name, of course, is Panasonic, but there are days it feels more like Panasecret for those who are trying to predict the regional impact of the company’s 4,000-job battery plant in De Soto.
But some key details are starting to emerge on the $4 billion project, and for communities like Lawrence and Eudora, none may be more important than the estimated number of plant employees who are expected to move to ...
News and notes from around town, with a special emphasis on Lawrence’s housing scene:
— It might be fun to live on a street named Research Park Drive. (Upon hearing my address, people would exclaim that they hope it’s cranial research they are conducting.) Regardless, that old business park address may indeed become a new single-family neighborhood.
Plans have been filed at Lawrence City Hall to ...
