The Dole Institute of Politics will award its top leadership prize to the late Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, at a public program next month. It is the first time the Dole Institute has honored a recipient posthumously. Scott O’Connor, the late ...
The University of Kansas has plans for a $120 million expansion of its architecture and design school, and hopes to win $10 million in state funding next year to spur the project. KU leaders will seek permission from the Kansas Board of Regents this week to ask for that state funding, and ...
John Della Volpe is widely regarded as the nation’s leading expert on complicated polling numbers related to Gen Z — America’s youngest voting-age generation that includes teenagers and the slightly-under-30 crowd. But Della Volpe, director of polling at the Institute of Politics at ...
The University of Kansas athletic department will bring in some outside help as it looks to secure its place in the college sports landscape. KU Athletics announced on Thursday morning that it is partnering with business management consulting firm Deloitte in order to "best be prepared to ...
An event that celebrates a variety of East Asian traditions is set for next week on the University of Kansas campus. The Mid-Autumn Festival hosted by the KU Center for East Asian Studies will run from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Sept. 17 at the Kansas Union on KU’s Lawrence campus. The event ...
A Harvard professor will be on the KU campus later this month for a new speaker series about a worldwide cultural phenomenon who in some ways has become Lawrence’s next door neighbor — Taylor Swift. Stephanie Burt, a Harvard English professor who teaches the class “Taylor Swift and Her ...