Newly released depositions from former Kansas football coach David Beaty’s ongoing court battle with Kansas Athletics Inc. include claims that Athletic Director Jeff Long planned to fire Beaty even before the coach’s final season with the Jayhawks began. It also includes allegations that ...
Joining a growing number of universities around the country, the University of Kansas told faculty members on Monday that it would offer students the option to take all of their courses for credit — rather than a grade — in light of the abrupt switch to online learning. The move to ...
A Lawrence biotechnology company is in the process of solidifying clinical trials for a therapy that could drastically reduce the more complicated symptoms of COVID-19. Clara Biotech, based on the University of Kansas’ west campus, says it has developed a way to directly target infected ...
As institutes of higher education around the country continue to grapple with economic challenges surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, they are simultaneously dealing with unprecedented changes to how they conduct research. In line with Douglas County’s stay-at-home order, which took ...
A Lawrence man accused of possessing child pornography has been employed in two positions working with or around children, the Journal-World has found. Bruce S. Springsteen, 62, was charged March 6 with three counts of sexual exploitation of a child. The complaint filed against him alleges ...
As states around the country continue to struggle obtaining adequate supplies to test for the coronavirus, researchers at the University of Kansas stepped in to help fill the void in the Sunflower State after a request from Gov. Laura Kelly. Kelly’s office requested lab kits to help process ...
Story updated at 2:49 p.m. Wednesday Carl Lejuez, who served as the interim provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas for nearly 18 months, was named Wednesday as the permanent provost at the University of Connecticut. Lejuez served as KU's interim provost from spring ...
KU’s athletic director says the university is already talking about contingency plans in case the coronavirus pandemic that canceled the NCAA’s winter and spring championships affects the 2020 football season, too. “Certainly there’s some question about the September football season ...
Story updated at 4:01 p.m. Tuesday: An athletic trainer at the University of Kansas was aware of “at least some reports of unwarranted and unwanted touching” by a massage therapist who worked with female student athletes, university leaders said Tuesday. Shawn P. O’Brien, who has been ...
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran on Monday joined a panel of health experts at the University of Kansas Health System to update the status of federal legislation that could bring millions of relief dollars to the Sunflower State for economic hardships brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Moran, a ...
The coronavirus outbreak has caused local bus routes to reduce their service and some bus drivers have been asked to leave their jobs. To help control the spread of COVID-19, the University of Kansas canceled all in-person classes for the spring semester and suspended all nonessential ...
The University of Kansas on Friday suspended all nonessential research activity at the Lawrence and Edwards campuses amid growing concerns about the spread of the coronavirus. “We understand that this will significantly disrupt your current projects, but this is an unprecedented situation ...
KU Endowment is launching a dedicated fund to help the University of Kansas' chancellor provide relief to those in financial need during the coronavirus pandemic. "From the student senate to alumni to faculty and staff, we've heard from many who want to help," KU Endowment President Dale ...
University of Kansas students in on-campus housing received more guidance Wednesday on how their abrupt move-out process will work while keeping precautions in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. More than 3,500 of the more than 5,000 on-campus residents are away from Lawrence, a message ...
Bars in the Lawrence area got what Rob Farha called “two bonus Sundays” this year with the Kansas City Chiefs’ journey to the AFC Championship Game and ultimate Super Bowl victory. But those two bonus days pale in comparison to the profits bars could have brought in during the 2020 NCAA ...
Some 30,000 students, faculty and staffers at the University of Kansas had their lives upended Tuesday as officials made the decision to largely suspend campus operations for the academic year amid the global coronavirus pandemic. Classes moved to online-only instruction for the remaining 34 ...
Story updated at 1:34 p.m. Tuesday The University of Kansas on Tuesday announced that its classes for the remainder of the academic year would be held remotely to help stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The move came a day after an order from Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly dictated that ...
A judge has sided with the University of Kansas in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a former tenure-track professor. Cathy Joritz, who became a professor in KU’s Department of Film and Media Studies in 2012, has been representing herself in cases she's filed against the university ...
Story updated at 6:18 p.m. Monday Bianca Labrador, an online student at the University of Kansas who until recently was studying abroad in London, has faced many confusing and frustrating moments in the time since the coronavirus pandemic began sweeping the globe. It was bad enough, she said, ...
Updated story - March 17 — KU moves classes online for entire spring semester Story updated at 6:12 p.m. Monday The immediate future of the University of Kansas’ campus operations remained in limbo on Monday as Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly ordered gatherings be limited to less than 50 ...