A partnership between The Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas and the National Council for History Education (NCHE) earned a federal grant that aims to support Kansas elementary and middle school history teachers.
The council, with the help of the Dole Institute, received a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education that will support teachers who teach third to eighth graders ...
The Kansas Department of Transportation has added a stretch of state highway in southeastern Douglas County and northeastern Franklin County to a list of upcoming road modernization projects.
The expansion of Kansas State Highway 33 was one of nine projects that Gov. Laura Kelly’s office and KDOT announced last week had been added to the state’s Eisenhower Legacy Transportation Program construction ...
Several years ago, members of the University of Kansas’s Hall Center for the Humanities were brainstorming ways to share their research that were more interactive and engaging — not just long talks in stuffy lecture halls.
Andrew Hodgson, the assistant director for the Hall Center, recalled that someone suggested the idea of a haunted house. That idea evolved into the first “Haunting Humanities” event ...
If you were looking for someone to direct a Tony-Award winning musical comedy, Theresa Buchheister wouldn't be the obvious choice.
Buchheister, a University of Kansas theater graduate, is not really a “musical theater person” and mostly worked in avant garde theater in New York City for the past 20 years.
But “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is, in its own way, an unconventional sort of ...
With Halloween just around the corner, it’s the time of year to see some ghosts, but a tour from the Lawrence Arts Center adds a little local history to the city's spooky sights.
This week, the 2025 “Ghosting Lawrence” tour will take its guests on a bus ride that explores haunted sites across the city and brings local ghost stories to life.
Ric Averill, the tour guide for the event, said he first started ...
The Lawrence Public Library’s bookmobile outreach program will get a lift with a sponsorship pledge from a KU sorority.
The library’s Board of Trustees approved during its Monday night meeting an agreement for the University of Kansas chapter of Pi Beta Phi to sponsor the library’s bookmobile “Dottie.” The sorority would pledge a minimum of $10,000 over a two-year period and will receive naming ...
