Today’s educators are teaching students who will one day establish living quarters on the moon or even travel to Mars. That’s according to Sam Ortega, of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, who told the Journal-World the federal space organization thinks it's important to offer ...
It’s not clear exactly how, but a gate to the University of Kansas chancellor’s residence was damaged over the weekend. Deputy Chief James Anguiano, of KU police, said Tuesday that someone had caused an estimated $1,500 in damage to a gate leading to 1532 Lilac Lane from Louisiana Street. ...
A summer camp held in Lawrence this week asked high school students interested in science, technology, engineering and math to consider another important aspect of creating products for others: empathy. Design the Future, a weeklong STEM camp held on the University of Kansas campus, allowed ...
The Kansas Board of Regents is considering asking the state government to increase higher education funding by $50 million for the 2020-2021 school year. The Regents met Thursday for their annual budget retreat at Kansas State University's polytechnic campus in Salina, where they began ...
Story updated at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8: A federal judge on Thursday denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit that former University of Kansas football coach David Beaty filed against Kansas Athletics Inc. Mike Lyons, an attorney representing Beaty, told the Journal-World that he would let ...
A new University of Kansas study shows that women who own guns are more likely to be politically active than those who don’t, and its lead researcher says this may be impacting the gun control debate. The study, which was recently published in Social Sciences Quarterly, shows women who own ...
Some University of Kansas students will see their health care premiums more than double for the coverage period that includes the 2019-2020 school year. KU Interim Provost Carl Lejuez announced the changes to student insurance plans recently in a memo to the KU community. He said an increase ...
A University of Kansas study found about 40% of opioid-addiction treatment centers in the Kansas City area have a “mixed-to-negative attitude” toward treating people who have been prescribed medications to fight their addiction. As addiction to opioids has become a national crisis in ...
A Kansas football player has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, according to the Douglas County Jail booking log. KU police arrested Malcolm Charles Lee, 20, at 2:45 a.m. Saturday at 1034 Mississippi St., according to jail records. The address is less than a block from ...
As the relationship between the United States and Iran becomes increasingly hostile, some students at the University of Kansas are living in uncertainty, an Iranian student told the Journal-World recently. However, a KU political scientist thinks the tension will eventually subside without a ...
Zoning out during an engineering lecture, KU student Michael Srimongkolkul and his friends were distracted on their laptops in November 2017 when one of Srimongkolkul’s friends shared some information he found on a solar car competition. They were instantly hooked. “I had no prior ...
A new University of Kansas program hopes to help women leaving prison better adapt to civilian life by teaching them technology skills. A team of researchers led by Hyunjin Seo, an associate professor in the KU School of Journalism, recently received a three-year, $1.4 million grant from the ...
The two largest universities in Kansas are again ranked as the best value for higher education in Kansas. But the local university is looking up to its land-grant cousin to the west for the fifth year in a row. A study by SmartAsset, a financial technology company, recently ranked K-State as ...
Head coach Les Miles won’t be the only new attraction coming to David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium this fall. University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long announced Wednesday that fans attending KU home games now will be able to buy beer and wine, beginning with the Jayhawks’ Aug. 31 ...
A man who was arrested last fall but released at that time has now been charged with a sex crime reported on the University of Kansas campus. Hayden B. Gragg, 19, of Lee’s Summit, Mo., was arrested on the charges this week, released on $500 bond and ordered to appear in court later this ...
Two local organizations recently supplied funding to a University of Kansas addiction program to help it expand its services in Douglas County. The university announced in a news release that its Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment received a grant from the Douglas County ...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Many people figure vaping spares their health because it lets them inhale nicotine in aerosols instead of sucking in smoke from burning cigarettes. New research from the University of Kansas casts doubt on that, raising the specter that vaping nicotine may cause some of ...
Gov. Laura Kelly has appointed three new members to the Kansas Board of Regents, the governing body of the state's six Regents universities and other educational institutions. The three appointees are Cheryl Harrison-Lee, Jon Rolph and Shellaine “Shelly” Kiblinger, according to a news ...
Theatergoers attending the premiere of “Chasing Gods” will have an unusually up-close experience; they'll be seated on the stage. “It’s an intimate viewing experience,” said Paris Crayton III, the creator of the production, which opens Friday in Murphy Hall on the University of ...
Kansas City, Kan. — Now that it’s July, Wyandotte High School senior Tahj Harris said he hears gunshots every day. “I’m used to it,” he said. “I don’t think much about it.” For many teens in the northeastern corner of Kansas City, Kan., violence feels normal. Wyandotte junior ...