Given that Katie Hoke is an interior architect, it is not surprising that she knows a pretty specific detail about the configuration of the coffee shop she owns with business partners: It is 16 feet long — including the hitch. Yes, the coffee shop is inside an Airstream camping trailer, parked near the intersection of Bob Billings Parkway and Wakarusa Drive. Come to find out, though, that was just coffee ...
Employees at the University of Kansas have faced a double dose of uncertainty about pay raises for the next year — uncertainty about state funding and worries about how federal cutbacks might hamper pay plans. Now, it is looking more likely that most employees will get at least a 2.5% pay increase, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod recently told the Journal-World. Gov. Laura Kelly on Wednesday signed the state ...
A national pundit and former NCAA athlete was on the University of Kansas campus Wednesday to argue against transgender women participating in female sports leagues, but organizers restricted attendance to the speech. Riley Gaines, a former NCAA Division I swimmer who now hosts the Fox Nation podcast “Gaines for Girls," spoke at Budig Hall at the invitation of the KU chapter of Turning Point USA, which was ...
Jennifer Raff, an associate professor of anthropology, was one of nine University of Kansas researchers to be awarded at the University Research Awards at the Jayhawk Welcome Center on Wednesday, April 9. Other KU honorees were: Markus Potter, associate professor of theater and dance; Elaina Sutley, associate professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering; Darren Wallace, professor of internal ...
Developing the area just north of Rock Chalk Park has, at times, looked like the middle-age, full-court pick-up basketball games that take place at the adjacent sports center — slow moving with more plans than points. Now, there is a development hoping to break the drought. Plans have been filed for a multimillion dollar project to build about 100,000 square feet of self-storage units that would be north of ...
The University of Kansas is among 45 universities that the U.S. Department of Education is investigating related to admission practices that use racial preferences, but KU’s chancellor is confident the university did nothing wrong. “We are not at all concerned about being on that list,” Chancellor Douglas Girod told the Journal-World on Friday, referencing the list of 45 schools that the Department of ...