This time of year, one of the most recognizable insects is headed en masse through Kansas on its way to central Mexico. Although the monarch butterfly's signature orange and black is one of the most distinct colorations in the insect world, these days their numbers are in decline, and they're ...
The 2015-2016 Kansas University School of Music concert season is now underway. The season, which kicked off last week in the newly remodeled Swarthout Recital Hall, includes more than 50 shows featuring students, faculty and visiting artists, with performances scheduled in Lawrence, Kansas ...
http://www.lawrence.com/photos/2015/sep/03/296202/In 1910, a young Otto Dix had just entered his first year of study at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. By fall 1915, after enthusiastically enlisting in the Germany army, Dix was serving as a machine gunner and platoon commander in the ...
Kansas University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean candidate Luis Casian began his public presentation by displaying an “eight-dimensional” circular illustration formed by an intricate web of multicolored lines.For one, he said, to show “how beautiful math is.” Two, he said, to ...
Carolyn “Kay” Cromb Brada and Ray D. Evans are this year’s recipients of the Fred Ellsworth Medallion, bestowed by the Kansas University Alumni Association for extraordinary service to KU.The Alumni Association announced the two winners Friday and will honor them Sept. 11 during the fall ...
The Kansas Senate Confirmation Oversight Committee this week approved Gov. Sam Brownback’s appointments of three new members of the Kansas Board of Regents, according to an announcement from the Regents.The appointments of Dave Murfin, of Wichita, Daniel Thomas, of Mission Hills, and Dennis ...
Kansas University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean candidate Carl Lejuez highlighted the need for “creativity” in growing diversity and “face time” to help the disconnect between administrators and faculty, among other ideas, during a presentation Wednesday on campus.Lejuez is ...
Kansas University has named the last of four finalists for dean of its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.Luis Casian, professor and chair of the Department of Math at The Ohio State University, will make a public presentation from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Friday at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas ...
Newly released documents paint only a partial picture of how — and by whom — Kansas University’s Center for Applied Economics is funded. The clear part of the picture is that the Koch Foundation has, through KU Endowment, given the Center at least $430,000 since 2008, which Executive ...
Kansas University has named the third of four finalists for dean of its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.Carl Lejuez, professor of psychology and associate dean of research for the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at University of Maryland-College Park, will make a public ...
Granted, it was only their second day in the class. But students in professor Susan Williams’ Wednesday afternoon Material and Energy Balances section at Kansas University were still warming up to the newfangled format of their 158-person “lecture” course. After the second problem of the ...
You can’t go home again. That’s what they say, anyway. Thomas Wolfe famously coined the phrase in his 1940 book of the same name, which told the tale of a fledgling writer who, after writing a successful novel about his family and hometown, is later driven out of the community by its ...
The city of Lawrence is again offering an alternative to searching for parking around Kansas University’s Memorial Stadium — and walking for blocks to the game — this football season.Park downtown and catch the bus.The Lawrence Transit No. 11 Downtown/Football Service buses will run all ...
The poster-women for Kansas University’s 2015-16 Women of Distinction calendar have been announced and will be recognized at a reception on Monday. KU’s Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity produces the poster-style calendars featuring KU students, faculty, staff, administrators ...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — In his private practice career, retired doctor David Zamierowski said he “never touched” a computer. And each time he tried a procedure for the first time, starting in medical school back in the 1960s, there was a real person under his knife. “In the back of my mind, ...
Instead of going to trial, the case of Kansas University School of Business teacher Art Hall v. KU is being settled out of court.As part of the agreement — between three parties: KU, Hall and student Schuyler Kraus — KU released a limited number of the documents it had been withholding to ...
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will speak at Kansas University's Lied Center in November, the KU School of Business announced Thursday.Wozniak, who is best known for founding Apple alongside Steve Jobs in 1976, will deliver the business school's Anderson Chandler Lecture at 11 a.m. on Nov. 20 ...
Archaeologists like Phil Stinson, associate professor of classics at Kansas University, are appalled by this week’s news that the Islamic State group blew up a 2,000-year-old temple at Palmyra, Syria.Adding to a sense of “helplessness,” Stinson said, experts and scholars can’t even ...
Kansas City, Kansas ? The Kansas University Medical Center is beginning work on a $75 million building.Gov. Sam Brownback is among the dignitaries scheduled to attend a ceremonial groundbreaking ceremony Thursday morning for the new Health Education Building. It will serve as the primary ...
Some of today’s most-discussed current events and social issues — including teen dating violence, riots and feminism — will play a prominent role in Kansas University Theatre’s upcoming season. The 2015-2016 lineup, which kicks off Oct. 2, aims to serve as “an invitation for ...