By day, University of Kansas professor Leonard Krishtalka is the director of the Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum, but by night he writes fiction. Though educated as a scientist, for as long as Krishtalka can remember he has loved writing. His moonlighting has paid off with ...
Autism is an important part of Temple Grandin’s life, but it’s secondary in importance to her career, and it wasn’t always her biggest obstacle. “Starting out in the ‘70s in a man’s industry, being a woman was a much bigger barrier than autism ever was,” Grandin said Wednesday ...
Say goodbye to Kansas City’s air-roasted coffee chain, and say hello to the purveyor of pumpkin spice lattes. In July, all University of Kansas Roasterie locations will be replaced with Starbucks. “I can’t say enough about what a good partner Roasterie was and is,” said David Mucci, ...
A University of Kansas researcher has been charged with felony theft, unlawful acts concerning computers and other charges, according to a news release from the Kansas attorney general’s office. Liuqi Gu, 37, of Lawrence, is a postdoctoral researcher with KU’s Department of Ecology and ...
Updated at 4:07 p.m. Friday: The University of Kansas has named Barbara Bichelmeyer to be the next provost and executive vice chancellor at KU. Bichelmeyer, who currently serves in the same roles at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, will start at KU in February, KU Chancellor Douglas ...
A national nonprofit dedicated to protecting freedom of speech at universities found that the University of Kansas has policies that threaten the First Amendment right. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released a report on Wednesday in which it rated 471 private and ...
Carl Lejuez, interim provost at the University of Kansas and one of four finalists for the full-time position, is also a finalist for the provost position at the University at Buffalo in New York, Lejuez confirmed Thursday. Although information on the identities of the finalists and the time ...
A branding expert will lecture at the University of Kansas Thursday night at 6 p.m. Stanley Hainsworth led the creative teams at Nike, Lego and most recently, Starbucks, before founding his own creative design and advertising agency, Tether, in 2008. He led a complete visual redesign for the ...
When Dan Hoyt started graduate school at the University of Kansas in 2016, he knew he had anxiety and depression. He worried about being able to find a job after graduation. And, sometimes, he couldn't get through his assigned reading. "When you have anxieties, that gets impossible," he said. ...
Shannon Blunt, a University of Kansas engineering professor whose work focuses on radar systems, will soon be appointed to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. On Nov. 14, the White House announced its intent to appoint Blunt to the council. Blunt attended the ...
Alan Alda was at an observatory atop a mountain in Chile 16 years ago when what started as a tickle in his gut turned into an intense pain. “I want to tell you about the night that changed my life,” Alda, 83, told a sold-out audience Monday night at the Lied Center, as he began the ...
Eleven-year-old Laila Anderson made national news this year as her fight with a rare disease helped inspire her favorite team, the St. Louis Blues, to win the Stanley Cup. Just one month ago, University of Kansas student Kenton Felmlee discovered it was his bone marrow donation that helped save ...
A group of University of Kansas students wants to get several bills introduced during the state legislature’s upcoming session in an attempt to increase transparency in higher education and reduce wasteful spending. At a Thursday evening press conference, Wesley Cudney, a KU sophomore and ...
After two consecutive years of operating expenses exceeding operating revenues, Kansas Athletics Inc. reversed the trend for fiscal year 2019. The organization’s auditor’s report, recently acquired by the Journal-World, shows that for fiscal year 2019, the operating income was $4.3 ...
Story updated at 3:59 p.m. Thursday The University of Kansas now has until mid-February to respond to the NCAA’s accusations of recruiting violations by its men’s basketball program, along with other alleged infractions. The university on Thursday said that the NCAA set a deadline of Feb. ...
The Kansas Board of Regents has given the University of Kansas a green light to raze two vacant buildings on its Lawrence campus. At the board's November meeting on Wednesday, KU was granted approval to raze its Facilities Administration Building and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Lab. The ...
Most universities have clubs for young Democrats and Republicans, but a growing number, including the University of Kansas, are establishing chapters of BridgeUSA, a national organization that seeks to expose students to diverse ideological viewpoints. Jakob Moberly, a KU sophomore who is ...
WICHITA — An associate professor in Kansas accused of secretly working for a Chinese university contends in a court filing that a visiting scholar fabricated the allegations against him after unsuccessfully trying to extort him for $300,000. Attorneys for Feng “Franklin” Tao filed a ...
The University of Kansas’ top aviation official has left, yet that does not mean the university will stop using its private jet. Jeff Long, chief pilot of KU’s aviation services department — who just so happens to share the same name as KU’s athletic director — has left the ...
Andrew Milward lived in Lawrence only from age 3 to 12, but he considers himself a Kansan through and through. That’s because he feels he came of age here. “The Kansas state motto is Ad Astra Per Aspera — 'To the stars through difficulty'— and in Kansas we did struggle,” the author ...