A female student at the University of Kansas was found dead in her dorm room Sunday night, but foul play is not suspected, according to KU police. At 5:42 p.m. Sunday, KU Public Safety officers responded to Lewis Residence Hall, 1530 Engel Road, in regard to a medical emergency. When officers ...

The woman who uncovered one of the largest incidents of accounting fraud in U.S. history is scheduled to speak next month at the University of Kansas. Best-selling author and consultant Cynthia Cooper, who led an audit team that discovered more than $3.8 billion in fraudulent accounting at ...

KU Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer had been on the Lawrence campus for a grand total of nine days before she started working to shut it down. It was the beginning of the pandemic, of course, and it won’t be a time any university administrator soon forgets. But when Bichelmeyer looks back at ...

All University of Kansas employees will need to be fully vaccinated by Dec. 8 or risk losing their jobs, KU announced Friday. Chancellor Douglas Girod said it is now clear that KU must comply with an executive order from President Joe Biden that requires full vaccination of employees who are ...

The University of Kansas police have identified the two suspects sought in the vandalism of a Native American art exhibit at the Spencer Museum of Art. Deputy Chief James Druen said in an email to the Journal-World that the two men were identified by an anonymous tip. He did not provide the ...

Thanks to COVID, it had been nearly two years since former director of bands Bob Foster had climbed that ladder with baton in hand to conduct the KU Alumni Band on the football field. Not that Foster was particularly worried about the layoff. The organizers, after all, had given him the song ...