Last fall, Kansas University Sexual Assault Task Force members and leaders of the Sexual Trauma and Abuse Care Center agreed that the university and the local victim advocacy agency needed to not only work together informally, but to get their relationship in writing. The university now has a ...
Fifty of the 57 international students who came to Kansas University last fall through the International Academic Accelerator Program are back on campus this fall. That number meets the year-old program’s “aggressive” goal for its first fall-to-fall retention rate of 88 percent, said ...
How old is the universe, and what is its ultimate fate? Do black holes really exist? Are there planets orbiting other stars? Since Steve Hawley graduated from Kansas University in 1973, many of the questions he asked as a student have been answered. The former NASA astronaut and current Kansas ...
Kansas University Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Jeff Vitter is one of three finalists for the position of chancellor at the University of Arkansas.The University of Arkansas named the finalists in a news release Monday, and all three are scheduled to visit the Fayetteville campus and ...
Even with the semester well underway, Kansas University employees still don’t know whether they’re getting raises this year. KU is tentatively planning for some raises but won’t bestow them until the threat of last-minute state budget cuts this semester has passed.Money reserved for ...
Kansas University and other state employees, regardless of pay raises, face higher health insurance deductibles and premiums next year.In another benefits change, should their employment end, employees’ insurance coverage will end with it immediately — at midnight that day instead of at the ...
It was about two years ago that Ben Ahlvers first visited Albert Bloch's old house at 1015 Alabama St. From the outside, the Victorian-era home appeared just like any other along the tree-lined avenue — simple, wooden-framed, with concrete steps leading up to the front porch and an ...
Kansas University’s Entrepreneurs@KU program won the Award of Excellence in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the national University Economic Development Association, KU announced Friday. KU Innovation and Collaboration, the university’s bi-campus technology commercialization office, ...
“Detroit ‘67” is, without a doubt, a period piece. The stage of Kansas University’s William Inge Theatre has been transformed into a Vietnam-era basement in preparation for KU Theatre’s newest production, opening Friday at Murphy Hall. Vintage appliances and groovy posters of Motown ...
Kansas University Endowment on Thursday announced the latest of its prestigious Chancellors Club honorees.Each will receive $10,000 and be honored Oct. 30 at KU Endowment’s Chancellors Club celebration in Lawrence. Meet the winners:Kenneth Peterson2015 Chancellors Club Research Award Titles: ...
Power has been restored to a number of major buildings affected by a Thursday morning power outage on Kansas University's campus.An electrical circuit feeding the KU campus failed and was down for 3 minutes, from 11:14 to 11:17 a.m., according to Westar representative Jaycee Breese. Breese said ...
Kansas University Endowment’s Far Above fundraising campaign concludes in June 2016.Endowment is working on a plan for what will come next for the organization and expects to finalize its new five-year strategic plan, “Above and Beyond — Continuing the Momentum,” this spring, Endowment ...
When he starts the job as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Kansas University, Carl Lejuez will be living west of Atlanta for the first time in his life. And he’ll have to explain to an entirely new region of people how to pronounce his last name. Then again, he still does ...
Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense" is an influential work often cited as one of the inspirations for the American Revolution. His 1791 "Rights of Man," defending the French Revolution, was also a historically important work. However, Jonathan Clark, a Hall distinguished professor of ...
Kansas University Medical Center has named a new dean of its School of Nursing. Sally Maliski, associate dean for academic and student affairs at the UCLA School of Nursing, will begin in January, KU Medical Center announced Tuesday. Maliski previously was an associate professor in the UCLA ...
“Life goes on.” Lani Nelson, 74, won’t surrender that mantra, despite her diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer. “I’m part of life, it’s going on, I’m swept up in it — in a way I didn’t really choose, but I still am part of life — every bit of it,” Nelson said. Once ...
Kansas University’s Monarch Watch effort is getting more than half a million dollars to enable a butterfly version of the old “teach a man to fish” proverb. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announced Monday that Monarch Watch would receive $527,154 for its “Building Tribal ...
To accommodate demand, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak now plans a second lecture during his visit to Kansas University in November. Wozniak will now deliver the KU School of Business 2015 Anderson Chandler Lecture at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Nov. 20 at the Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive. Tickets ...
The challenge: Formulate a cohesive and catchy pitch for a business, inspire enough passion in a group of complete strangers to unite them around the idea, concoct a logical business plan, and get experts to buy in — all within a single weekend. Twenty Kansas University students and Lawrence ...
Over homecoming weekend 2014, an informal party thrown by freshmen at Kansas University’s Kappa Sigma fraternity house got out of control. There was “excessive” underage drinking by fraternity pledges as well as by female guests, the fraternity has acknowledged. Within days, allegations ...