State universities will expect to receive more funding from the state next year after the Kansas Legislature approved a statewide budget on Saturday.
Sen. Tom Hawk, D-Manhattan, who serves on the Senate’s higher education funding subcommittee, told the Journal-World Monday that the approved budget included the $28.4 million increase to higher education in the state. The budget now awaits Gov. Laura Kelly’s ...
City leaders have officially chosen a site on the edge of the University of Kansas' West Campus for the city's new bus-transfer hub.
At its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission selected a site on Bob Billings Parkway, between Crestline Drive and Iowa Street, for the Lawrence Transit Transfer Hub. The project will serve as a bus-transfer point and will include an indoor station for the city bus service, ...
A film by a University of Kansas filmmaker exploring the concept of different perspectives between married people will be made for both viewers who can see and viewers who are blind or visually impaired.
“Before An Immense Sky” by Meg Jamieson, an assistant professor for KU’s film and media department, explores the solitude and distance between two people who are happily married or are in any other ...
A low turnout for Student Senate election at the University of Kansas is nothing new. But this year, the government organization achieved a new low in lack of student involvement.
The 2019 Student Senate election, which took place in early April, was the first uncontested race for student body president in the organization’s 50-year history, said Andrew Moore, a student researcher for KU History, a ...
Researchers for the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita have developed a new depression treatment that aims to help people who don't respond to medications like Prozac and Zoloft.
Drs. Sheldon Preskorn and Matthew Macaluso, who are psychiatry researchers for the school, helped develop a nasal spray treatment called esketamine, which will be marketed under the name Spravato, according to a KU news ...
Several organizations in Douglas County failed state health code inspections in April.
Each month, I take a look at inspection results and list every place either listed out of compliance or with 10 or more code violations. Full reports are available online at agriculture.ks.gov.
There, you can find details about specific violations, which can vary. Noncritical citations include unlabeled products, improperly ...
