University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long on Friday shed a little more light on a proposed $20 million renovation to Allen Fieldhouse. Although Long called the $20 million request in a capital improvement plan a “placeholder,” he told the Journal-World the project would likely ...
Updated story - April 19 — $20M Allen Fieldhouse renovations likely to include concession, bathroom and other renovations Multimillion-dollar renovations to Allen Fieldhouse and David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium could be coming for KU Athletics, but details on what the projects would ...
Some contract extensions for head coaches and athletic directors at Kansas universities will now need approval from Kansas Board of Regents officials before they can be offered. The Regents approved the amended policy on athletic department contracts during its April meeting on Wednesday in ...
A collection that includes essays, short stories and poems from 36 acclaimed writers will serve as the University of Kansas' 2019-2020 Common Book, KU announced Thursday. "Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation," which was edited by John Freeman, was chosen because it ...
The University of Kansas will spend $4.9 million this summer to make an “emergency repair” to one of the newest facilities on its campus. During its April meeting on Wednesday, the Kansas Board of Regents approved KU’s capital improvement request to repair the heating and cooling system, ...
As part of sexual assault awareness month, an exhibit that challenges the idea that victims' clothes lead to assaults returned to the University of Kansas this week. The exhibit known as “What Were You Wearing?” opened in the Kansas Union Gallery on Tuesday as part of the the KU Sexual ...
By placing a new fiber internet cable on campus, a University of Kansas official hopes KU can avoid another crippling internet outage like the one it suffered in 2016. Mary Walsh, chief information officer for KU, told the Journal-World on Monday that the university recently installed a third ...
The published works of Devon Mihesuah fill a wide space between two bookends in her office at the University of Kansas. The prolific author juggles her time between being a professor, writing (both fiction and nonfiction), and advocating for healthy eating in the Native American community, ...
Politicians need to return to the qualities of true leadership that former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole personified if Washington is to solve problems, former Hewlett-Packard CEO and 2016 presidential candidate Carly Fiorina told an audience Sunday at the University of Kansas' Robert J. Dole Institute of ...
University of Kansas junior Sam Steuart, of Topeka, is one of 62 students nationally who have been awarded the prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship. Steuart becomes the 20th KU student to receive the scholarship since 1981, according to KU. The award includes $30,000 toward graduate ...
The University of Kansas debate program has been honored for its performance not just this season but over the past 20 years. The Cross Examination Debate Association awarded KU its top team ranking, based on points earned at tournaments, for the 2018-2019 season during the recent CEDA ...
Associated Press Executive Editor Sally Buzbee remembers how her fellow journalists at the AP were being labeled as unpatriotic in the mid-2000s when they reported the war in Iraq was going poorly for the U.S. “I thought the U.S. was over that sort of thing,” said Buzbee, who was the ...
Former Republican presidential candidate and businessman Herman Cain on Wednesday delivered the J.A. Vickers Sr. and Robert F. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lecture at the University of Kansas School of Business. Photos by Ashley Hocking/Lawrence Journal-World Related coverage - More on Cain's ...
Story updated 6:21 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, 2019: The University of Kansas Natural History Museum this week found itself in the middle of a big flap over a “baby” fossil. The museum pulled a set of juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex bones from public view following criticism about the fossil’s ...
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Marilynn Smith, one of the 13 founders of the LPGA Tour whose 21 victories, two majors and endless support of her tour led to her induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame, died Tuesday. She was 89. She died in Goodyear, Arizona, surrounded by family and friends, the ...
A former Adidas executive has agreed to pay the University of Kansas restitution as part of a federal fraud case involving college basketball recruiting. ESPN reported Monday evening that James Gatto has agreed to pay $342,437.75 in restitution to KU and North Carolina State for his role in ...
A Lawrence woman whose experience of being kicked out of her home as a 16-year-old because of her sexual orientation was highlighted on the Netflix show "Queer Eye" has a fresh shot at college after fans of the show raised enough to pay off her student loans. The show tells the story of ...
When it comes to responding to reports of sexual assault, response teams on college campuses face a set of barriers that prevent their work from being as effective as similar programs run by cities and counties, according to a University of Kansas study. But this revelation is allowing the ...
The NCAA is “aggressively” pursuing evidence obtained by the FBI for the college basketball corruption trials, NCAA President Mark Emmert said. Emmert, who made the comments Thursday during a news conference for the NCAA’s Final Four basketball tournament in Minneapolis, Minn., said the ...
Through a $500,000 gift to KU Endowment, a University of Kansas alumnus established a new professorship at the university focused on military history. David Pittaway, of Naples, Fla., donated the gift to create the professorship because he thinks vital military history, including the study of ...