The University of Kansas hopes to begin searching for candidates for its permanent provost position after the spring semester comes to a close, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said Wednesday.
Prior to the Kansas Board of Regents meeting in Topeka, Girod laid out for the Journal-World the probable timeline for the search for a permanent provost. Currently, the university is soliciting bids from search firms to help ...
A college basketball recruiting fixer who revealed that he had made illicit payments to University of Kansas basketball players will now have to wait until September for sentencing.
T.J. Gassnola, a former Adidas consultant who was a key government witness for the college basketball corruption trial in October 2018, will be sentenced on Sept. 10, the office of presiding Judge Lewis A. Kaplan told the ...
Baker University is adding a new sport to its athletic program, but the team won’t be taking any fields or courts.
Instead, the team will be taking on the virtual world in video games.
The Baldwin City-based university announced last week that its athletic department is joining several other Kansas universities and colleges in launching an esports team, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year. The program ...
Riding a VeoRide bike on the University of Kansas’ hilly campus may have just gotten easier, said Spencer Dickerson, a general manager for the bike-sharing service.
While students were gone for spring break last week, VeoRide added 150 new e-bikes to Lawrence, including the KU campus, Dickerson said. The e-bike addition brings the total number of VeoRide rental bikes available in Lawrence up to 500, according ...
Hundreds of Kansas farms are hoping to be part of a historic first season of legal hemp production in the state this spring, according to the Kansas Department of Agriculture.
Heather Lansdowne, communications director for the department, said 370 Kansas farms filed applications by the March 1 deadline to participate in the state’s industrial hemp research program.
Hemp, a variety of the cannabis plant and a ...
TOPEKA — In a second hearing before Kansas lawmakers, a bill to legalize medical marijuana was opposed Friday by state law enforcement agencies, an addiction specialist and a doctor.
The bill — Senate Bill 113 — was filed by state Sen. Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, and supported by local Rep. Jim Karleskint, R-Tonganoxie, who both provided testimony in support of the legislation Thursday during the first ...
