Sonia Warshawski, a 92-year-old great-grandmother, businesswoman and Holocaust survivor, will speak at the Dole Institute of Politics on Oct. 19, sharing her experiences and answering questions.
But first, the public is invited to view the critically acclaimed documentary about her, "Big Sonia," which will be shown at 2 p.m. Friday at the Dole Institute, 2350 Petefish Drive. The film was produced by Sonia's ...
The smell of new carpet was in the air at the Cofrin-Logan Center, a suite of rooms on the third floor of the Dole Human Development Center on the University of Kansas campus.
The waiting area was empty. But Rich Yi, the center’s director, knows that will change.
It just takes time. After all, the Cofrin-Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment was established just this summer, thanks to a $2 ...
More than 60 of the University of Kansas’ tenured or tenure-track faculty had signed up by Friday's deadline for early retirement through the Voluntary Separation Incentive Program.
Although this won’t solve KU's mandated $20 million budget-cutting initiative, it will help, said Carl Lejuez, interim provost and executive vice chancellor.
That number represents about 6 percent of the 1,000 faculty members ...
Stepping into KU’s Medicinal Plant Research Garden is kind of like opening a medicine cabinet.
Slender mountain mint clears the nasal passage. Echinacea, thought to be an immune-system booster, and wild tomatillos, thought to have cancer-prevention properties, grow alongside many other plants in the garden plot that doubles as a laboratory.
The public is invited to tour the garden at 10 a.m. Saturday. It is ...
The Kansas Board of Regents revised its enrollment numbers that were released earlier this week, and the revision shows the University of Kansas down 82 students rather than the 151 the Regents originally reported.
“The 2018 full-time-equivalency number of 24,246 remains the same," said Matt Keith, a spokesman with the Board of Regents. “But the 2017 full-time-equivalency for both KU and Kansas State was ...
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod has been meeting with the three main gubernatorial candidates, along with key legislators, regarding the importance of funding higher education.
Girod spoke to the University Senate — made up of faculty, staff and student representatives — Thursday afternoon about those meetings. However, in terms of dollars, there were no commitments from any of the candidates, ...
