A conservative Christian activist known for her fierce opposition to transgender girls and women competing in female sports is scheduled to speak at the University of Kansas on Wednesday. Protesters have already vowed to show up for the event where 24-year-old Riley Gaines will appear. Gaines, ...
When Charlie Johnson got a call during one of his virtual classes at the University of Kansas in March, he let it go to voicemail since he didn’t recognize the number. Johnson, a senior from Lawrence who went to Free State High School, soon saw on the auto-transcription of the voicemail that ...
Brian McClendon, the Lawrence native who became a founder of the system that powers Google Earth and modern mapping, lightly slammed his foot on the University of Kansas stage. He told the crowd of about 400 cybersecurity experts from across the region that they should care about that faint ...
As current U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faces questions about his leadership of the country’s military, a former U.S. defense secretary will be in Lawrence later this month to deliver a keynote address. Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will deliver public remarks at 7 ...
A faculty member and administrator who oversees large parts of the operations at Purdue’s business school has been named as a finalist to become the next dean of the University of Kansas’ School of Business. Lin Nan, a professor and senior associate dean at Purdue’s Mitch Daniels School ...
The numbers of the moment have not been kind to universities across the state. At the University of Kansas, $40 million is the amount of budget pain leaders here worry about if new regulations are placed on how universities can spend federal grants from the National Institutes of Health. At ...