Updated at 5:22 p.m. Monday
Burdett Loomis, a longtime political science professor at the University of Kansas and a well-known supporter of local arts, has died. He was 76.
Loomis, who had retired from KU, died Saturday at his home in Lawrence after recently being diagnosed with cancer.
KU Chancellor Douglas Girod, in a message to the KU community Monday, said Loomis, known as "Bird," stood "among the giants ...
Autumn Schierling tells how everyone in kindergarten — “the whole entire class, except my three friends” — laughed at her on the first day of school.
“I cried,” she says, but her tone is matter of fact, like someone talking about ancient history.
“It was after you dropped me off,” she says to her mom across the table. Her mom, Lindsay Revenew, nods, knowing this story and that it’s not the ...
This summer was hellish for Ahmad Baset Azizi, a University of Kansas student who was working desperately to get his family out of Afghanistan as the Taliban overran the country.
But in the final week of August, his fear and anxiety gave way to relief and joy as he learned that his parents and three sisters had safely boarded a plane from Kabul to the United Arab Emirates — just a day before a suicide bomber ...
Mona Cliff says she was “kind of blown out of the water“ when she heard her art was selected to adorn a wall of the new $1.5 billion Kansas City airport, not just because the competition was so stiff — fewer than 2% of the 1,900 artists who applied were chosen — but also because the announcement “propelled” the already great year she was having professionally.
Earlier this year she was selected to ...
More than 100 animals at the Lawrence Humane Society were adopted Saturday and left the shelter for their new homes.
On Saturday, which was Clear the Shelter Day across the nation, all adoption fees were waived for dogs and cats.
In Lawrence, 102 animals were adopted, according to Elina Alterman, the shelter's development and communications director. That includes 47 dogs and 55 cats — the first time more ...
The two artists couldn’t be more different — he paints celebrity portraits; she paints abstract landscapes — and that’s why sharing a space has been such a breeze, says Patrick Schlotterback of his studio mate Maria Martin.
"It's perfect because it's so eclectic. She's completely abstract, and I love her work, and I'm more realistic, almost a Norman Rockwell type," Schlotterback says.
The two, along ...
