KU Endowment is launching a dedicated fund to help the University of Kansas' chancellor provide relief to those in financial need during the coronavirus pandemic. "From the student senate to alumni to faculty and staff, we've heard from many who want to help," KU Endowment President Dale Seuferling said Friday in a news release. "The fact that people are thinking about how they can help others in their time of ...
The University of Kansas on Friday suspended all nonessential research activity at the Lawrence and Edwards campuses amid growing concerns about the spread of the coronavirus. “We understand that this will significantly disrupt your current projects, but this is an unprecedented situation that requires us and our peer institutions to take this action,” a message from Chancellor Douglas Girod, Provost ...
University of Kansas students in on-campus housing received more guidance Wednesday on how their abrupt move-out process will work while keeping precautions in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. More than 3,500 of the more than 5,000 on-campus residents are away from Lawrence, a message from KU Housing said, so students will schedule a two-hour time block where they can bring no more than two other people ...
Legislation creating a statewide transportation program that could ultimately fund widening on the western leg of the South Lawrence Trafficway is headed to Gov. Laura Kelly’s desk. Lawmakers on Thursday passed the Eisenhower Legacy Transportation Plan as they scrambled to put together a bare-bones budget in case the coronavirus pandemic requires them to adjourn for an extended period of time. The ...
Some 30,000 students, faculty and staffers at the University of Kansas had their lives upended Tuesday as officials made the decision to largely suspend campus operations for the academic year amid the global coronavirus pandemic. Classes moved to online-only instruction for the remaining 34 academic days beginning on March 23; over 5,000 students who live on campus were told that KU Housing facilities were ...
Bars in the Lawrence area got what Rob Farha called “two bonus Sundays” this year with the Kansas City Chiefs’ journey to the AFC Championship Game and ultimate Super Bowl victory. But those two bonus days pale in comparison to the profits bars could have brought in during the 2020 NCAA Tournament, in which the University of Kansas men's basketball team was widely expected to make a deep run. Then, ...