A University of Kansas professor is leading a team of researchers from Kansas and Louisiana whose work could reveal new clues about diseases and how they develop. Steve Soper, professor at KU’s departments of chemistry and engineering, along with his team, are developing nanotechnology that ...

U.S. Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling spent Friday morning touring KU Innovation Park in Lawrence to see how job creation locally could be boosted and replicated across the country. Sonderling was at Innovation Park's main facility on Becker Drive, along with University of Kansas Chancellor ...

What should college students who are about to enter the workforce do in a tight labor market? For some University of Kansas students, the answer lies in additional layers of support and outside-the-box thinking. That, they believe, will safeguard them from what one KU economist described as ...

U.S. Military aircraft will fly over Lawrence and the David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium on Friday and Saturday ahead of the football match between Kansas and Baylor. On Friday at 10:30 a.m., three V-22 Ospreys will conduct a practice run over the stadium, followed by a Saturday fly over ...

The sense of community was strong Tuesday evening inside First Baptist Church in Lawrence, where about three dozen people gathered to brainstorm ideas and address one pressing issue: the looming closure of Hilltop Child Development Center. Hilltop, a nonprofit affiliate of the University of ...

Researchers at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare have secured a $1.8 million federal grant to study a program that aims to strengthen the bonds of adoptive parents and their children. The grant, awarded by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation within the U.S. ...