At age 8, Sarah Deer read in a children’s history magazine that women in America didn’t have the right to vote until 1920.“I was sure it was a typo,” she said.Upon verifying that it, in fact, was not, Deer said her thoughts turned to, “that’s not right.”And thus began Deer’s ...
A Kansas University vice provost is a finalist for dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida. Ann Cudd, vice provost and dean of undergraduate studies, was scheduled for a public presentation Thursday and an open session with students Friday on the Florida ...
A hearing that was scheduled for Friday has been canceled in the case of a Kansas University lecturer who’s suing the school over releasing his emails. The next hearing date had not yet been set in the case of Art Hall v. KU, as of Thursday afternoon.Hall is founding executive director of the ...
Plays written by Kansas University undergraduate students will debut this weekend in the fifth Black Box Productions at the University Theatre. Black Box gives select students the opportunity to direct, cast, rehearse and perform original work. This year's productions include "How to Survive ...
Watkins Health Center has had an influx of Kansas University community members coming in for measles vaccinations this week.The rush — primarily employees — follows a friendly reminder the university sent out urging anyone who has not been vaccinated to come in and do so, said Douglas ...
Topeka ? The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved a resolution in support of Kansas University Medical Center's efforts to seek designation as a "comprehensive cancer center" by the National Institutes of Health.That's a step higher than the "national cancer institute" designation KUMC ...
The second of four candidates for dean of the Kansas University School of Architecture, Design and Planning will visit campus this week.David Edelman will give a public presentation from 1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Friday at The Forum in Marvin Hall, 1465 Jayhawk Blvd. A reception will follow.Edelman ...
Kansas University has its own policy protecting LGBT students and employees from discrimination, and it’s not affected by the governor’s actions on a similar state order, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little reminded the KU community on Wednesday.In a memo to students, faculty and staff, ...
Kansas University has announced names for the two new residence halls being built on Daisy Hill: Madison A. and Lila M. Self Hall for the north building and Charles W. Oswald Hall for the south building.The Kansas Board of Regents approved the names during its meeting Wednesday in Topeka.The ...
At the tiny, historically black Southern college where she got her undergraduate degree, Jameelah Jones looked like everyone else. There was a “level of comfort there and a level of safety,” she said.Then she came to Kansas University for graduate school. In a sea of 25,000 students — ...
Kansas University sent its third annual climate survey to students Tuesday, an ongoing effort to gauge the problem of sexual harassment and assault on campus. In the anonymous online survey, KU asks questions such as whether students have been or have known victims of sexual harassment, whether ...
With the added security, visitors and spectacle of President Barack Obama’s visit to Lawrence last month, local law enforcement departments and emergency services racked up a few bills, officials said.Obama stayed overnight in Lawrence Jan. 21, and on Jan. 22 he toured a local preschool, met ...
A Kansas University alumna who was named a 2014 MacArthur “genius” will return to campus to give the annual February Sisters lecture this week.Sarah Deer will present “Sovereignty of the Soul: Native Feminism and Violent Crime” at 3 p.m. Thursday at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas ...
The Kansas Geological Survey says average groundwater levels are still declining in western Kansas, but at a slower rate.The agency on Tuesday released preliminary data from the measurements of some 1,400 water wells taken earlier this year.Most of the wells draw from the High Plains aquifer, ...
The court process is moving forward in the case of a Kansas University lecturer with Koch ties who sued to block KU from publicly releasing his emails. The next hearing in the case of Art Hall v. KU is set for Friday. KU, as the defendant, and the student group requesting the emails, as an ...
One victim from Sunday evening’s shooting was released from the hospital Monday, while the other two victims, both Kansas University students, remain hospitalized, Lawrence police spokesman Sgt. Trent McKinley said. The three men were injured around 4:30 p.m. Sunday after an altercation in a ...
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Kansas University has received a $1 million gift to help provide for its continued educational programming.The endowed gift comes in the form of a grant from the Bernard Osher Foundation, which has similar institutes at a number of universities ...
Have some time to kill and want to know — honestly — what’s been going on at Kansas University for the past decade?Check out the 209-page Self Study that upwards of 100 KU community members spent more than a year preparing in time for Monday’s visit by representatives of the Higher ...
Kansas University has sanctioned 32 students — expelling eight of them — for violating its sexual harassment policy, which includes sexual violence, in the past two and a half years. The counts are according to a KU Student Affairs tally made public for the first time this week. They ...
Thanks to years of data collected and ultra-sensitive radar equipment developed by Kansas University researchers, scientists have created the first-ever comprehensive map of the Greenland ice sheet.Where others in the past tried and failed, KU-based National Science Foundation Center for Remote ...