A co-creator of the Google Earth platform has given, along with his wife, a $4 million gift to the University of Kansas to help find and create the next generation of software engineers. Beth Ellyn and Brian McClendon made the multimillion dollar gift to support KU’s School of Engineering, ...
The KU chapter of a national Latino fraternity won an award for its fundraising efforts that go to supporting scholarships for the Latino community — despite receiving less institutional support in its efforts this year. The Beta Xi Chapter of Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity Inc. was honored on ...
Tenured faculty members at the University of Kansas would get reviewed more often and might have to teach more classes under a set of proposals that the state’s higher education leaders soon will review. With several state lawmakers saying they have concerns about the current tenure system ...
Demolition on the east side of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium will begin next month, and KU leaders now say a portion of the east side of the stadium will open for the 2026 football season. University of Kansas Chief Financial Officer Jeff DeWitt told the Journal-World that demolition on ...
There was both a ribbon cutting and an anointing Wednesday at the University of Kansas’ new 55,000-square-foot conference center that is attached to the university’s renovated football stadium. “This center meets the high standards of the University of Kansas,” Gov. Laura Kelly ...
The University of Kansas and Lawrence Arts Center will host a screening of a new documentary about a KU alumnus who helped found a research institution that hopes to make agriculture more sustainable with perennial crops. The partnership will host a free screening of the documentary ...