The Jayhawks are winless on the football field in 2020, but frustration borne of that folly cannot compete with the 15-year competition to assign financial responsibility for life-threatening mistakes with installation of the glass-and-metal shroud on Memorial Stadium’s press box. This ...
It may have taken longer than hoped, but a plan to provide accessible views of rural Douglas County is coming to fruition. After months of designing and building, students of Dirt Works Studio, a University of Kansas School of Architecture and Design studio, are in the middle of constructing a ...
None of Kansas’ six public universities are proposing an increase for food or housing costs in the next academic year, which will make it the second year in a row the University of Kansas has not had an increase. At a virtual meeting Wednesday, the Kansas Board of Regents took a first look ...
Story updated at 8:53 p.m. Tuesday: The University of Kansas’ chancellor announced Tuesday that no fans will be allowed at home sporting events for the rest of November because of the ongoing surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the region. This news will affect two volleyball ...
The University of Kansas will terminate the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity chapter at the end of the semester after an investigation found evidence of hazing, harming new members and an open culture of illegal drug use. A Nov. 4 letter from the university’s vice provost for student affairs ...
WICHITA — In just two weeks, thousands of college students in Kansas will board planes and hop into cars daydreaming of sweet potatoes and turkey legs. Most of those students won’t return to campus for the rest of the semester. To cut the risk of spreading the coronavirus, the majority of ...
The University of Kansas is offering additional COVID-19 testing options for certain campus community members who are preparing to head home after the end of in-person classes later this month. In-person instruction at KU will end Tuesday, Nov. 24, just before the Thanksgiving holiday, and ...
Douglas County reported 3,275 cases of COVID-19 as of Friday, an increase of 79 cases since Thursday. The county has averaged about 28 new cases per day over the last 14 days, according to a 14-day moving average graph updated weekdays by the health department. The current average of 28.21 new ...
After months of being closed due to the pandemic, The University of Kansas' Spencer Museum of Art is once more open to the public. The museum, which is free, is open on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. This month will be visitors' last chance to view three exhibits: ...
As crowd sizes have shrunk, the financial losses at Kansas Athletics Inc. have grown to the point that leaders were told Wednesday to expect about a $10.4 million loss for the current fiscal year. The department will use a portion of a $20 million line of credit to cover the unexpected losses ...
Longtime University of Kansas professor Elizabeth Schultz is the latest recipient of an annual award given to Douglas County citizens or organizations whose work has advanced peace or justice. Ecumenical Campus Ministries recently awarded the 2020 Tom and Anne Moore Peace and Justice Award to ...
The University of Kansas Hospital Authority at the end of July agreed on a contract with Lenexa-based Clinical Reference Laboratory to provide at least 35,000 COVID-19 tests for Kansas’ flagship university between August and December, records show. But exactly how much KU has paid the ...
After announcing in May that it was projecting a $120 million budget shortfall for fiscal year 2021 because of losses from COVID-19, the University of Kansas on Friday announced that the deficit for this budget year is only $47.6 million — 60.3% less than the shortfall that was originally ...
Story updated at 2:22 p.m. Wednesday A University of Kansas senior who recently announced he was leaving the men's basketball team is facing a case in Douglas County District Court, records show. Silvio De Sousa, 22, is soon to be charged with aggravated battery, a level-5 or ...
Over the past two weeks, the University of Kansas has confirmed only 30 new cases of COVID-19, a significant drop from the rates recorded earlier in the semester, data released Tuesday shows. KU has confirmed 1,101 total cases of COVID-19 since the school year began in August, an increase of ...
A task force charged with evaluating the University of Kansas' public safety office will be recommending more training and oversight for police officers, as well as some changes to the office's duties, according to a draft of the task force's recommendations. The 25-member group's draft ...
Kansas counties that have mandated the use of face masks in public have seen much lower spread of COVID-19 than the statewide average, new research from the University of Kansas shows. The analysis by KU's Institute for Policy and Social Research found that counties with mask mandates had ...
Student leaders at the University of Kansas are seeking a reprieve from classes on Nov. 3, the date of the 2020 election, so that the KU community has every available opportunity to cast their ballot. The thinking, according to KU student body vice president Grant Daily, is that although ...
A lawsuit filed last week in Douglas County District Court alleges that the University of Kansas owes over $3 million to a sports marketing firm in Chicago for work related to a 2015 contract. The consulting work done by Navigate Marketing Inc. is what led KU not only to a more lucrative ...
Four researchers at the University of Kansas found recently that Asian Americans have been hit harder by unemployment related to the COVID-19 pandemic than any other minority group in the United States, but the reason why isn't exactly clear. Since the pandemic took hold in March, Asian ...