The University of Kansas Hospital Authority at the end of July agreed on a contract with Lenexa-based Clinical Reference Laboratory to provide at least 35,000 COVID-19 tests for Kansas’ flagship university between August and December, records show.
But exactly how much KU has paid the company and how many samples the lab has tested during the course of the fall semester is unclear from the contract, which ...
After announcing in May that it was projecting a $120 million budget shortfall for fiscal year 2021 because of losses from COVID-19, the University of Kansas on Friday announced that the deficit for this budget year is only $47.6 million — 60.3% less than the shortfall that was originally expected.
In a campus message Friday, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod and Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer announced that ...
Recent polling of national and statewide races in Kansas indicates that the Sunflower State, typically a Republican stronghold, will see closer races than it has in decades this Election Day, which is Nov. 3.
Republican President Donald Trump won Kansas by 21 percentage points in 2016, but a poll of 755 voters released Thursday from the New York Times and Siena College showed that the incumbent president is ...
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Gov. Laura Kelly on Wednesday ordered flags across Kansas to be flown at half-staff after the state passed another somber milestone in the continuing fight against COVID-19: 1,000 killed by the novel respiratory virus.
COVID-19 has now claimed the lives of 1,007 Kansans since the pandemic took hold in March, an increase of 31 deaths since the state Department of Health and Environment ...
One of the only contested legislative races in the Douglas County area — between incumbent Sen. Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, and Rep. Willie Dove, R-Bonner Springs, for the 3rd District Senate seat — has seen an influx of tens of thousands of fundraising dollars between the two candidates.
The incumbent Holland, though, outraised Dove by roughly $17,500 and ended the reporting period from July 22 to Oct. 24 ...
Over the past two weeks, the University of Kansas has confirmed only 30 new cases of COVID-19, a significant drop from the rates recorded earlier in the semester, data released Tuesday shows.
KU has confirmed 1,101 total cases of COVID-19 since the school year began in August, an increase of only three cases since data was last released on Friday and an increase of 30 cases in the last 14 days — or one ...
A task force charged with evaluating the University of Kansas' public safety office will be recommending more training and oversight for police officers, as well as some changes to the office's duties, according to a draft of the task force's recommendations.
The 25-member group's draft recommendations emphasize the need for KU Public Safety officers to get more training on biases and mental health issues. The ...
Kansas counties that have mandated the use of face masks in public have seen much lower spread of COVID-19 than the statewide average, new research from the University of Kansas shows.
The analysis by KU's Institute for Policy and Social Research found that counties with mask mandates had roughly half as many cases of the respiratory virus as the statewide average when adjusted for population. Donna Ginther, a ...
Student leaders at the University of Kansas are seeking a reprieve from classes on Nov. 3, the date of the 2020 election, so that the KU community has every available opportunity to cast their ballot.
The thinking, according to KU student body vice president Grant Daily, is that although early voting and advance mail voting is possible in Kansas, it's not possible for all KU students who are eligible to vote ...
Four researchers at the University of Kansas found recently that Asian Americans have been hit harder by unemployment related to the COVID-19 pandemic than any other minority group in the United States, but the reason why isn't exactly clear.
Since the pandemic took hold in March, Asian Americans have suffered the greatest percentage of overall job losses and lost jobs at a 9.7% higher rate than white workers ...
A lawsuit filed last week in Douglas County District Court alleges that the University of Kansas owes over $3 million to a sports marketing firm in Chicago for work related to a 2015 contract.
The consulting work done by Navigate Marketing Inc. is what led KU not only to a more lucrative beverage contract with Coca-Cola, but an even more lucrative contract with Pepsi when the university switched to the soda ...
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Gov. Laura Kelly said Wednesday that she will soon open discussions with state legislative leaders to ways in which a bipartisan consensus could be reached on instituting a mask mandate for the entire state of Kansas.
Kelly's initial statewide mask mandate, issued in July, was wildly unpopular among Republican officials and gave counties in the state the option to opt out of the ...
The Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen’s annual community Thanksgiving dinner will undergo some operational changes this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Most notably, LINK’s dining room at 221 W. 10th St. will not be open for seating on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26., coordinator Deb Engstrom told the Journal-World.
For those who want to enjoy a meal but don’t want to take it home, ...
The University of Kansas in June entered into a nine-month contract with a Maryland-based higher education consulting firm tasked with examining virtually every aspect of KU’s operations, from academics to administrative offices.
The bill — footed by KU Endowment, the university’s separate fundraising arm — totals $710,000. And through March 2021, the firm, rpk GROUP, will review and make ...
Local and state leaders hope a multimillion-dollar federal grant awarded Thursday could help create hundreds of bioscience jobs in Lawrence and help launch a new innovation district on the University of Kansas' west campus.
Government officials gathered Thursday at KU's Bioscience and Technology Business Center, 2029 Becker Drive, to break ground on a 66,000-square-foot expansion to the BTBC made possible by ...
The University of Kansas has confirmed 40 more cases of COVID-19 since data was last released Friday, bringing the school's cumulative case total to 1,071.
New data was released on KU's COVID-19 dashboard Wednesday after being delayed Tuesday, the normal release day, because of a data issue, a university spokesperson told the Journal-World.
From Oct. 5 to Oct. 11, the most recent seven-day period for which ...
One of the cost-cutting measures the University of Kansas implemented over the summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic's strain on financial resources will result in the retirement of at least 147 employees — and most of their positions will not be filled — KU announced Wednesday.
The university announced in June that a voluntary separation incentive program to retire by the end of 2020 would be available to ...
Douglas County has gone another week without an outbreak of COVID-19 severe enough to be named in the state Department of Health and Environment's list of locations that were attributed to a virus spread of more than five cases in the past 14 days.
KDHE's list, released each Wednesday, has not included a named outbreak in Douglas County since Sept. 30, when Bishop Seabury Academy and Baldwin City High School ...
Communities and organizations across the state of Kansas can now apply to receive additional funding for COVID-19 testing through the state Department of Health and Environment, Gov. Laura Kelly said Tuesday.
KDHE late last week posted a request for proposals from state communities and organizations that are in need. The agency has $53 million to allocate toward increased testing, and the state should know by ...
Barbara Bichelmeyer, the provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas, told members of a KU governing body Tuesday that KU would again mandate COVID-19 testing upon a return to campus for the spring 2021 semester.
Exactly what that required testing will look like is still up in the air due to how quickly technology around COVID-19 testing is evolving, Bichelmeyer told the Senate Executive ...
