Nine KU alumni will receive a special innovation award as part of the KU Alumni Association’s Black Alumni Network program. The award recognizes members of the Black Alumni Network who have made special contributions either to their profession, the university or their community. The nine ...

Updated at 5:22 p.m. Monday Burdett Loomis, a longtime political science professor at the University of Kansas and a well-known supporter of local arts, has died. He was 76. Loomis, who had retired from KU, died Saturday at his home in Lawrence after recently being diagnosed with cancer. KU ...

University of Kansas researchers are trying to create a snapshot of broadband access for every ZIP code in Kansas and now are asking for the public’s help in the effort. A project that KU’s Institute for Policy & Social Research is conducting with the University of Michigan is asking ...

This summer was hellish for Ahmad Baset Azizi, a University of Kansas student who was working desperately to get his family out of Afghanistan as the Taliban overran the country. But in the final week of August, his fear and anxiety gave way to relief and joy as he learned that his parents and ...

The roof of Wescoe Hall on Jayhawk Boulevard now sports a giant blue "KU." The new landmark on the University of Kansas campus is 80 feet from top to bottom, and it's only visible from the air. The roofing company CentiMark recently put a new roof on Wescoe Hall. When Mark Reiske, KU’s ...

Certain students at Wichita State now will have a fast track to getting a law degree from the University of Kansas. KU announced Monday that it has created a new partnership with Wichita State that allows WSU students in select majors to get their undergraduate and law degrees in a total of ...