Poet Nikki Giovanni will deliver a lecture next week at the University of Kansas, KU announced Monday.Giovanni, called one of the most acclaimed poets to emerge from the Civil Rights Era and Black Arts Movement, will present “Poetry: A New Conversation” at 6 p.m. April 4 at Woodruff ...
Kansas Repertory Theatre has appointed Peter Zazzali, an assistant professor of theater at the University of Kansas, as its first artistic director, KU announced last week. Zazzali, who directed William Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors” in the theater company’s inaugural season in ...
Franklin D. Murphy became chancellor of the University of Kansas in 1951, when he was just 35.When he left KU to lead another university in 1960, 4,000 students — roughly half of KU’s enrollment at the time — protested his resignation.The years in between, Murphy was “wildly ...
The University of Kansas is throwing a bash to celebrate outgoing chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, KU has announced. The event — featuring a concert by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and soul music legend Booker T. Jones — is set for May 4 at the Lied Center. The event begins at 5 ...
The University of Kansas School of Journalism has announced a new keynote speaker for this year’s William Allen White Day celebration, as William Allen White Foundation National Citation winner Charlie Rose is unable to attend for health reasons. Journalist and political commentator Bob ...
Arnie Johnson has been and will always be “a country boy.” “My family was country from day one,” says Johnson, who was raised in a family of musicians, first in Salina, and then in Lawrence, where he’s lived since 1952. Now, at 76, his age has finally caught up with his “old country ...