Kathy Rose-Mockry has seen a lot of change during the 20 years she has served as the director of the University of Kansas’ Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity.
But in June, Rose-Mockry is set to retire, finishing the longest stint as the leader of the center.
Under her leadership, the center — which aims to promote an inclusive campus and to remove barriers to equity among students — has ...
An antibiotic-resistant “superbug” carrying a gene that originated in India has been found in a remote part of the world by a group of researchers that includes a University of Kansas geology professor.
Jennifer Roberts, chair of KU’s Department of Geology, participated in a 2013 study of the soil in Svalbard, Norway, that found the superbug that originated in New Delhi, India. She said the detection of ...
While screenwriter Kevin Willmott is busy with activities surrounding the Academy Awards and his celebrated film “BlacKkKlansman,” he's already looking ahead to his next project: a documentary about Langston Hughes.
Willmott, a University of Kansas film professor, told the Journal-World recently that he's excited to help make a two-part documentary film focusing on Hughes, a poet and cultural icon who spent ...
A state senator from Douglas County has been busy introducing bills with bipartisan support this week, including one that would legalize medical marijuana in Kansas.
Sen. Tom Holland, a Baldwin City Democrat, introduced two bills this week with support from Republicans — the medical marijuana bill and a proposal to freeze property taxes for elderly homeowners and homeowners who are disabled veterans.
Rep. ...
Two weeks after interim dean Clarence Lang declined the permanent deanship for the University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the university has yet to announce a plan to fill the position.
Ruben Flores, the University Senate president, and Kirk McClure, the Faculty Senate president, both told the Journal-World on Wednesday that they have not been informed of a plan to fill the position since ...
Australian author Jane Harper always wanted to be a writer.
But before she decided to put all of her time toward fiction writing, she worked for many years as a journalist.
Harper won’t be going back to journalism anytime soon, though. Her first novel, “The Dry,” a mystery focusing on the death of a farm family amid one of the worst Australian droughts in a century, was released in 2017. In the novel, ...
