Kansas’ Office of the Attorney General said Friday that the University of Kansas was not breaking state law by keeping the meetings of its pandemic advisory team private.
The nine-member team of medical professionals and KU leaders, known as PMAT, was established in June to help inform the university’s decisions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. In early September, the Journal-World reported that KU ...
COVID-19 vaccinations in Kansas have been underway for a little less than a month, with priority being given to health care workers, EMS responders and residents in long-term care facilities. This past week, some health care workers received the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine, meaning they are now fully vaccinated.
That group included Shannon Fletcher, a respiratory therapist who was the first person in ...
Like the University of Kansas, KU Endowment adopted cost-saving measures this fiscal year because of financial uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Michelle Strickland, spokesperson for the nonprofit organization, said in an email to the Journal-World that these measures include a 10% operating budget reduction for the current fiscal year, the implementation of a hiring freeze and no salary increases ...
It just took a fresh pair of eyes for three preserved snake specimens to be recognized as something special — and entirely new.
In 2017, graduate research assistant Jeff Weinell realized that three snake specimens in the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum had been misidentified.
He had been studying a genus of snakes called Pseudorabdion and sequencing their DNA in order ...
An upcoming art competition at Lawrence's Watkins Museum will help local students become more involved in the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The museum is inviting kindergarten through 12th grade students to participate in an art contest with the theme “The 15th Amendment at 150: The Art of Voting.” The 15th Amendment, ratified on Feb. 3, 1870, ...
Douglas County has received about 4,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines since the rollout began, but many health care workers who qualified for Phase 1A of the county's vaccination plan are still waiting for their shots, officials said Monday.
As of 1 p.m. Monday, Douglas County had received 4,120 doses since the start of the vaccine rollout last month. But in its COVID-19 update on Monday, LMH Health said more than ...
