Haskell Indian Nations University is planning on partnering with an indigenous university in New Zealand to establish exchange programs, advance graduate education and provide research opportunities for faculty and students. On Thursday and Friday, the chief executive officer of Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi (The Maori Indigenous University) visited Haskell’s campus. “We had a great visit,” Haskell ...
Experts say that while high intensity interval training workouts — HIIT workouts, for short — are a good way to push a person’s cardiovascular health endurance, they’re not for everyone. “I would say HIIT is not the exercise of choice for a lot of people,” said Vic White, an exercise physiologist at LMH Health. “It’s probably more applied to a younger population.” HIIT workouts typically ...
For the 11th year in a row, an antique motorcycle show is coming to the Douglas County Fairgrounds, and one of the organizers wants the public to know that youth are encouraged to attend. “The antique motorcycle enthusiasts are a bunch of gray-haired guys,” said John Webb, one of the chief organizers of Sunday's Santa Fe Trail Antique Motorcycle Show and Swap Meet. “We’re kind of aging out.” In ...
University of Kansas students are appealing to their chancellor’s “medical expertise” in an attempt to get him to cancel classes on Monday, following Super Bowl LIV. “The Student Senate calls upon the Chancellor, given his medical expertise, to consider the health implications of students attending classes and attempting course work less than 12 hours after the culmination of the Super Bowl and any ...
Story updated at 4:43 p.m. Wednesday: The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States remains at five, according to numbers the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated Wednesday. The site still lists Kansas as having no confirmed cases of the virus. The Journal-World reported Tuesday that LMH Health announced that it had a patient with a potential case of coronavirus and that a sample ...
Lawrence first grader Winston Alexander won first place for his grade level in the Kansas Historical Society's annual "Happy Birthday, Kansas!" student photo contest. This year's theme for the contest was "Going to school in Kansas." Winston used the self-timer mode on his grandmother's phone to take his self-portrait while painting apples in art class at Sunset Hill Elementary, his father, Travis Alexander, ...