Two new sleek and minimalist homes built in eastern Lawrence's Brook Creek neighborhood are ready to join a long list of homes designed by University of Kansas students. Since August, 15 KU architecture students participating in the Studio 804 program have been building the two new homes and will soon share them with the public. The homes — located at 1501 and 1503 Oak Hill Ave. — will be on display for ...
A well-known Hollywood actor is set to headline a series of lectures at the University of Kansas next school year. KU's Hall Center for the Humanities on Monday announced Alan Alda, who may be best known for portraying Hawkeye Pierce in the TV show “MASH,” as one of the five speakers lined up for its 2019-2020 lecture series, according to a KU news release. Alda will appear in “An Evening With Alan ...
This month, many farmers had hoped to make history in the state of Kansas by planting a newly legalized crop for the first time. But high amounts of rain and flooding throughout the state have put those plans on hold a little longer. “We’re flooded down here,” said Rick Gash, a hemp farmer in rural Butler County. Gash, who operates the Hemp Development Group with his wife, Stacy, said they had been ...
With the help of more than a million dollars in NASA funding, a University of Kansas research group hopes to take its studies to the deep reaches of space. The group, which is led by KU physicist Christophe Royon, recently received a three-year, $1.4 million grant from NASA to help develop a telescope that could one day be rocketed into space on a satellite to orbit the sun. Researchers plan for the telescope ...
After hearing hours of comments on proposed plans to build a five-story apartment and retail building complex in downtown Lawrence, the Lawrence City Commission early Wednesday morning denied the project the necessary certifications to move forward. With unanimous votes cast shortly after 1 a.m., the commission denied a certificate of appropriateness to Chicago-based developer Core Spaces to build the Hub on ...
A day after the Lawrence City Commission put a stop to a controversial five-story apartment and retail complex in downtown Lawrence, the developer’s future plans for the site are not clear. Lawrence Mayor Lisa Larsen told the Journal-World Wednesday afternoon that she has not heard from Chicago-based developer Core Spaces since the commission’s vote early that morning to deny issuing the project the ...