A forecast of rain and scattered thunderstorms throughout the weekend could lead to another canceled University of Kansas graduation. Commencement ceremonies for KU's Class of 2021 graduates are scheduled for Sunday at 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. According to KU's website, graduation ...
At the end of high school, Aroog Khaliq had the option of going straight into an accelerated medical school program or first attending a four-year university. The high school senior was pretty sure she wanted to be a doctor, but she also wanted to study a variety of subjects and take ...
A University of Kansas alumna has won a large grant to help expand her business, which seeks to provide AI-powered technology to entrepreneurs who are women of color. Michelle Tran Maryns is one of 24 recipients of the 2021 Bush Fellowship. The Bush Fellowship is granted by the Bush ...
A Dole Institute of Politics exhibit about Bob Dole's early years in Congress will include a virtual event on Tuesday featuring former U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts. The exhibit, "Voices from the Big First, 1961-1968," focuses on Dole's role as a congressman representing the western half of the ...
Updated at 4:58 p.m. Wednesday The University of Kansas announced varying budget cuts for academic and administrative units on Wednesday — ranging from zero to 12% — to address its structural deficit. The units with the largest cuts are the School of Music and the School of Engineering, ...
A little more than three weeks after taking over an athletic department with no head football coach in place, new University of Kansas AD Travis Goff filled the high profile vacancy, hiring Lance Leipold to lead the Big 12’s perpetually rebuilding program. The former head coach at Buffalo in ...
Activity has picked up on the University of Kansas campus in the spring semester compared to the fall, but there’s been no such boost when it comes to university employee numbers, the latest figures show. KU payroll data acquired by the Journal-World shows that 8,519 employees on the ...
The University of Kansas has submitted a proposal to the Kansas Board of Regents to construct a nearly $200 million science building, a move that ‘appalled’ a group of faculty members concerned about KU’s budget. But a KU spokesperson said the university’s proposal was procedural and ...
Cassandra Mesick Braun could not have predicted in 2017 that the health-centric art exhibit she was curating would come to fruition during a pandemic. But four years later and one year into the COVID-19 crisis, her exhibit on display now at the Spencer Museum of Art, “Healing, Knowing, ...
The University of Kansas’ new chief financial officer said Friday that at least two things were needed in the next school year: another $26 million in budget cuts and some type of plan to get KU growing again. In a campuswide video presentation, CFO Jeff DeWitt said that the days of budget ...
The Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute showed off some of its extrication tools Friday morning in Lawrence, demonstrating how they can be used to help firefighters remove victims of car accidents from wreckage quickly and safely. The extrication tools KFRTI purchased include a ...
A University of Kansas doctoral student is being charged hundreds of dollars after returning about 40 books to KU Libraries earlier this semester. Jenny Nielsen, a PhD candidate studying the philosophy of science, said that she returned all of the books except one in the condition in which ...
After the COVID-19 pandemic led to the cancellation of commencement celebrations last spring, at least two universities in Douglas County have elected to host commencements this May celebrating the classes of 2021 and 2020. The University of Kansas and Baker University will both hold ...
The University of Kansas lifted restrictions on university-related travel this week, citing high vaccination rates against COVID-19. KU's mask mandate, however, is likely to remain in place into the fall semester. Simon Atkinson, vice chancellor for research, and Jason Hornberger, vice provost ...
The University of Kansas' Dole Institute of Politics announced Monday that a foreign ambassador will deliver the annual Dole Lecture. Jean-Arthur Régibeau, the ambassador of Belgium to the United States, will discuss the 2020 U.S. presidential election and the COVID-19 pandemic. He will ...
KU Endowment provided just over $160 million worth of support to the University of Kansas during its last fiscal year, financial statements show. That actually was the smallest amount of support in the last five years, but records show that almost entirely is due to a slowdown in construction ...
In the fundraising world, there is nothing quite like a check without strings. Think of a check that doesn’t come with any instructions on a particular building it should construct, a specific academic field it should support, or even a desire to see more wins on the football field. It is ...
The number of employees at the University of Kansas’ Lawrence campus decreased substantially between 2019 and 2020, according to employee headcount data. But it’s not yet clear how much more of an employee decrease KU will see after budget decisions are made this spring. From 2019 to ...
The University of Kansas has created a position aimed at addressing the needs of Native American students and fostering engagement with Haskell Indian Nations University and tribal nations. Melissa Peterson was named KU's director of tribal relations on Thursday. Peterson was born and raised ...
The Kansas Legislature has passed a budget that includes an additional $25 million for higher education, a “big sigh of relief,” according to one Kansas Board of Regents member. Matt Casey, director of government relations for the Regents, shared the “good news” in his legislative ...