Whether former Adidas consultants — and now convicted felons — were boosters of KU Athletics is a big question in the NCAA’s case against the university. The NCAA argues Adidas officials were boosters, making their many contacts with KU coaches about recruits impermissible. KU leaders, ...
The three fossils stolen from the University of Kansas Natural History Museum over the weekend are plant fossils that visitors were allowed to touch when on display. Lori Schlenker, collections and facilities coordinator for the museum, said in an email to the Journal-World late Tuesday that ...
Updated story - Oct. 23 — Stolen KU fossils were plant items that visitors could touch at museum Three fossils were apparently stolen from a display case at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum. The fossils were reported missing about 9 a.m. Monday from the museum, which is in ...
It was Hailey Solomon’s first KU football game, and ESPN captured about 10 seconds of her experience on video. There she was, in a red sweater and puffy coat, the stands empty around her, crocheting. Of course, Solomon was simply occupying herself during the rain delay, but that was hardly ...
The Border War is back. Officially called The Border Showdown these days, the annual clash between longtime and bitter rivals Kansas and Missouri will return to the men’s basketball schedule beginning with the 2020-21 season. KU officials on Monday night announced the creation of a ...
The Lawrence lecture of Parkland shooting survivor and gun-control activist David Hogg has been pushed back a week. The student who survived the Feb. 14, 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla., will now speak at the Lied Center Nov. 15. Don Haider-Markel, ...
Ghosts of Lawrence suffragists will be in Abe & Jake’s Landing Wednesday night, sharing facts about their work in the women’s suffrage movement, which celebrates 100 years in 2020. But don’t worry, there won’t really be trapped spirits haunting the venue. The “ghosts” will be ...
The University of Kansas’ 107th Homecoming week kicks off Saturday and concludes a week later, the day of the football game against Texas Tech University. This year’s theme is “Far Above the Golden Valley.” Keon Stowers, development officer for the KU Alumni Association, led efforts ...
Many Lawrence residents were rattled two weeks ago when, without warning, military jets flew over town to practice their flyover before the University of Kansas football game against Oklahoma the following day. That might not have been the last time residents will hear the roar of fighter jets ...
For the musical duo Black Violin, Lawrence brings back a fond memory of a surprise reunion with an old mentor. Violinist Kevin Sylvester and violist Wilner Baptiste, or, as they like to be called, Kev Marcus and Wil B, have performed in Lawrence at least five times, Sylvester supposed. They ...
About 15% of undergraduate women, or nearly 1 in 7, reported on a survey that they had been raped since starting at the University of Kansas. The survey, conducted through the Association of American Universities, additionally found that 13% of students who identify as transgender, nonbinary ...
Four candidates for the position of provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas will give public presentations at the end of October and early November. The identity of the candidates, however, will not be released until 48 hours before their visits. Each candidate ...
A former tenure track professor at the University of Kansas claimed during a hearing Tuesday that violations of faculty evaluation policy and procedures led to her being terminated. A lawyer for the university, however, argued that her allegations of policy violations were “harmless errors, ...
Bruno Hagenbuch, a scientist specializing in transport proteins, and Jack Porter, a mathematics professor, have been named the 2019 University of Kansas Chancellors Club Award recipients. Hagenbuch, originally from Switzerland, started working at the University of Kansas Medical Center in ...
Updated at 11:37 a.m. Monday, Oct. 14 When students at a now-suspended fraternity told University of Kansas administrators about acts of hazing — including sleep deprivation, forced alcohol consumption and acts of violence — other members retaliated by striking some of the frat's new ...
With six university leadership positions currently filled by interims and another interim on the way, some University of Kansas professors and students are calling the situation a “problem,” while interim Provost Carl Lejuez labels the situation unstable but not chaotic. Professors are ...
Matt O'Reilly, an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Kansas, has been selected as the 2019 recipient of the HOPE Award. HOPE stands for "Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator." It's the only award given to a ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self on Wednesday spoke favorably about the new law in California that allows student-athletes in the state to profit on their name, likeness and image, calling the law “a very, very positive step” that puts the pay-for-play issue “on the front porch of ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self said Wednesday that it was not his intent to taunt the NCAA or anyone else with the promotional video and performance by Snoop Dogg at Late Night last week. The rapper’s performance, which featured pole dancers, profanity-laced lyrics and fake $100 bills ...
Snoop Dogg may have two G’s in his name, but the hip-hop artist said he certainly didn’t make any promises to make his recent show at Allen Fieldhouse G-rated. Snoop Dogg was on the Howard Stern radio program on Tuesday and was asked about his Late Night in the Phog performance that led ...