If you could have just one statistic to understand how good it is to be in the air-conditioning industry, it might be this one: About 3 billion people live in the hottest regions of the world, but currently only about 8% of them have air conditioning. As new middle-class economies emerge in ...
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod has been elected to a leadership position in North America’s top organization for research universities. Girod recently was elected to serve as the vice chair of the board of directors of the Association of American Universities. KU has been a ...
Jack Thimesch, county commissioner in Kingman County, will tell you what the biggest threat is to the future of wind energy. It is not the Audubon Society, it is not the Farm Bureau, it is not even Big Oil. Rather, the county commissioner who has three wind farms in his county and one more ...
The University of Kansas has created a new office that will work to develop partnerships with Native American tribes and other indigenous groups across the country. The Office of Sovereign Partnerships & Indigenous Initiatives will work to build off of Lawrence and KU’s reputation of ...
One of the University of Kansas’ most storied landmarks has been dismantled — temporarily. The Chi Omega Fountain at the west end of Jayhawk Boulevard has been removed as part of a major project to renovate the 1955 fountain that has been the sight of countless graduation photos. Now, a ...
A space probe concept with a KU team member has moved on to the next stage of evaluation for a $1 billion mission set to launch into orbit in the 2030s. The PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics, or PRIMA, aims to detect far-infrared radiation, observable only from space. The last ...