No need to worry if you are raising a sluggish child, especially if your child is a mollusk. A recent University of Kansas study has been gaining international attention with its suggestion that laziness might be a fruitful strategy for survival. But the lead author of the study, Luke Strotz, a postdoctoral researcher at KU’s Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum, says the study doesn’t ...
For the first time in its 70-year history, the entire KU Band Day event has been canceled. Over the years, the tradition has been for regional high school marching bands to converge on Lawrence and parade down Massachusetts Street. They would then perform at halftime during a home football game at Memorial Stadium. On a few occasions, a portion of the event, such as the parade, has been canceled because of a ...
A plan to reduce a proposed $20 million budget cut at the University of Kansas would involve Kansas Athletics losing its $1.5 million a year subsidy it receives from the university. Also proposed: A multimillion dollar increase in funding from the Kansas University Endowment Association, the sale of a KU jet that critics contend costs the university millions of dollars in unneeded expenses, and the creation of ...
A loaded 9 mm magazine, used in handguns, was found Tuesday morning in a west campus parking lot at the University of Kansas, KU police said. A KU employee found the magazine just before 8 a.m., in parking lot 210, near the Kansas Geological Survey building, 1930 Constant Ave., KU Public Safety Deputy Chief James Anguiano told the Lawrence Journal-World. Anguiano said the magazine has been placed in KU Public ...
Flecks of woodchips rained down as Dan Besco steered a cumbersome Stihl chainsaw through the remains of a 200-year-old white mulberry tree. His weeklong project is to carve a Jayhawk into the tree. But not just one Jayhawk; he’s carving all the different incarnations of the Unversity of Kansas' mascot through the ages. Atop the dead tree, he created a 4-foot-tall image of the bird's current incarnation. On ...
Dot Nary uses a powered wheelchair, but she wasn’t thinking of herself when she began working on a guide for making homes more accessible for those with mobility issues. Nary was thinking of her 88-year-old friend who had gone from using a walker to a power chair. She no longer could get into a relative's home and join her family for Thanksgiving dinner. For Nary’s friend and anyone wanting to be inclusive ...