Walt Wesley, a member of Kansas’ 1965-66 conference championship team and one of the legendary Jayhawks whose jerseys hang in the rafters of Allen Fieldhouse, died Thursday morning in Tampa, Florida, KU Athletics announced. He was 79. A two-time All-American with the Jayhawks, the 6-foot-11 ...

An evolutionary biologist who is an expert in how to manage biological collections has been named the next leader of KU’s Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum. Nico Franz, a professor of ecology and director of biocollections at Arizona State University, has been selected by KU ...

Food trucks will become a weekly staple on the University of Kansas’ Lawrence campus in April. As part of a workplace satisfaction initiative, KU will host four food trucks on campus from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Wednesday throughout the month of April. While the food trucks are part of a ...

There’s a chance thousands of University Kansas students who were shut out of in-person classes in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic might win partial refunds for tuitions and fees they paid KU that semester. If those refunds ever come — which is still very much in question — they may ...

Not every street is like Wall Street. There, occupants are never very far from a daily ticker — or metaphors of bulls and bears — measuring prosperity or decline for those in the financial industry. But on Massachusetts Street and elsewhere in Lawrence, high finance isn’t the engine ...

The University of Kansas’ First Nations Student Association will host its annual Powwow and Indigenous Cultures Festival in mid-April. The 2024 event, which will celebrate the diversity of cultures in the community through dancing, singing and honoring the traditions of Indigenous ancestors, ...