This story was updated at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, April 1, 2024.
Nearly nine months ago regulators found the University of Kansas’ drinking water system was out of compliance with a key safety standard, but KU officials say it “did not pose a significant health risk.”
The issues with the water system, though, are just now coming to light as KU posted a brief notice on its website on Friday.
“The water ...
You might be tempted to look to the football field when identifying the biggest success story of 2023 at the University of Kansas. A new set of numbers suggests you might want to look to the laboratory instead.
Research funding at KU increased by more than 20% last year, its largest increase in at least 20 years, KU announced on Thursday.
Research spending — funded by everything from federal, state and ...
I’m one of those guys who bring their golf swing to the softball diamond and their softball swing to the golf course. Soon, though, I may be out of excuses.
Plans have been filed at Lawrence City Hall to convert a part of a former grocery store building into a new type of indoor sports and entertainment venue. It indeed would have both batting cages and golf simulators under one roof. It also would have a ...
Lawrence and Douglas County are getting more serious about cultivating start-up businesses, and if you don’t believe it, there will be 25,000 examples to point to next month.
A pair of local organizations are teaming up to host the second annual Douglas County Pitch Competition, where entrepreneurs can pitch their ideas for new ventures to judges who will award $25,000 in prize money to the winners.
That ...
There’s a chance thousands of University Kansas students who were shut out of in-person classes in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic might win partial refunds for tuitions and fees they paid KU that semester.
If those refunds ever come — which is still very much in question — they may have to thank, in part, Kansas State University students.
Attorneys for students and KU spent more than an hour on ...
Not every street is like Wall Street.
There, occupants are never very far from a daily ticker — or metaphors of bulls and bears — measuring prosperity or decline for those in the financial industry.
But on Massachusetts Street and elsewhere in Lawrence, high finance isn’t the engine of the economy. Here, higher education is the force that makes the wheels turn.
There’s no handy daily ticker to ...
