While a $600,000 base salary increase was the headline number from KU Athletics Director Travis Goff’s new employment contract, the agreement also included other new perks — both on land and in the air. The agreement announced Wednesday by the University of Kansas doubles the number of ...

Updated 4:21 p.m. Wednesday: Kansas athletic director Travis Goff has received a raise to a starting base salary of $1.3 million and a contract extension through 2031, KU announced Wednesday afternoon. “I am thankful to Chancellor Girod for his continued trust in our team and I am honored ...

A five-year project to re-create and reattach eight grotesques — stone statuettes of animals — to KU’s Dyche Hall has been awarded the state’s top historic preservation award. The KU project won the Medallion Award from the Kansas Preservation Alliance earlier this month after a team ...

KU has won an $11.3 million federal grant to start a new research center focused on improving women’s health through the analysis of reams of data. The National Institutes of Health recently awarded the University of Kansas the multimillion-dollar grant to establish a new biomedical ...

The University of Kansas has selected a University of Georgia professor and administrator to be its next vice chancellor for research. Shelley Hooks, the associate vice president for research at UGA and a professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences at UGA’s College ...

Peaceful protests were fine, but attempts by pro-Palestinian activists to camp on the KU campus recently were a step too far, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said in a recent interview. “For the most part, they did a really nice job of holding peaceful protests, and I commend them for that,” ...