The nearly 4,000 graduates of the University of Kansas 2019 class have the ability to continue the “winds of change” and make a better world when they leave the university, Billy Mills said during the 147th KU commencement on Sunday. Mills, a Haskell Indian Nations University and KU ...
The estate of a University of Kansas alumna recently donated $1.4 million to the university to support its library system and provide scholarships to students in financial need. Martha “Matt” Mueller, who died in 2018 at 83, retired in 1994 as a librarian at the New York State College of ...
In honor of his dedication to his studies, the University of Kansas Religious Studies Department is awarding a posthumous master’s degree to Mahmoud Samak, a graduate student from Cairo who died in class earlier this week. Jacquelene Brinton, an associate professor and graduate director, ...
The end of her time at the University of Kansas has not yet sunk in, said Zoya Khan, an accomplished student from Overland Park who will graduate from KU on Sunday. “I don’t know if it’s going to hit me while I’m walking down the hill,” she said, referring to the commencement ...
Dylan Garnett went to Mass at the Catholic center every day during his first year at the University of Kansas, and he’d planned to enter new leadership positions there this fall. Instead, the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center community is now mourning Garnett, after he was killed in a ...
TOPEKA – Despite legislators' recent approval of a multimillion-dollar increase in higher education funding, most of Kansas' state universities, including the University of Kansas, want to hike tuition and fees for the 2019-2020 school year. During the Kansas Board of Regents' meeting on ...
A recent member of the University of Kansas football team was arrested overnight after a woman reported that he pointed a gun at her on campus. Kenny E. Bastida, 19, was arrested early Wednesday morning at Stouffer Place Apartments, 1835 Ousdahl Road, on suspicion of aggravated assault, ...
A University of Kansas student was killed Tuesday in a car wreck in Johnson County. Dylan Garnett, of Shawnee, was driving west on Kansas Highway 10 at 1:30 p.m. when a semitrailer in front of him slowed down because of traffic, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol crash report. Garnett was ...
Two new sleek and minimalist homes built in eastern Lawrence's Brook Creek neighborhood are ready to join a long list of homes designed by University of Kansas students. Since August, 15 KU architecture students participating in the Studio 804 program have been building the two new homes and ...
A well-known Hollywood actor is set to headline a series of lectures at the University of Kansas next school year. KU's Hall Center for the Humanities on Monday announced Alan Alda, who may be best known for portraying Hawkeye Pierce in the TV show “MASH,” as one of the five speakers lined ...
The University of Kansas’ search for a permanent provost will begin later this month, Chancellor Douglas Girod said in a message to the campus community. Girod on Friday named Michelle Mohr Carney, dean of KU’s School of Social Welfare, and Steven A. Soper, a foundation distinguished ...
With the help of more than a million dollars in NASA funding, a University of Kansas research group hopes to take its studies to the deep reaches of space. The group, which is led by KU physicist Christophe Royon, recently received a three-year, $1.4 million grant from NASA to help develop a ...
State universities will expect to receive more funding from the state next year after the Kansas Legislature approved a statewide budget on Saturday. Sen. Tom Hawk, D-Manhattan, who serves on the Senate’s higher education funding subcommittee, told the Journal-World Monday that the approved ...
A film by a University of Kansas filmmaker exploring the concept of different perspectives between married people will be made for both viewers who can see and viewers who are blind or visually impaired. “Before An Immense Sky” by Meg Jamieson, an assistant professor for KU’s film and ...
Grammy award-winning musicians Bruce Hornsby, Buddy Guy and Boz Scaggs are part of the lineup for the Lied Center's next season. “This season promises to be diverse and entertaining. From a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer to a New York Times best-selling author, and MacArthur Fellows to Tony ...
A low turnout for Student Senate election at the University of Kansas is nothing new. But this year, the government organization achieved a new low in lack of student involvement. The 2019 Student Senate election, which took place in early April, was the first uncontested race for student ...
Kansas poet Denise Low will be pulling up stakes and heading west this summer. In preparation for a move to California, she has been decluttering her life. It helped that the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas accepted 20 boxes of her papers, manuscripts, letters and ...
Researchers for the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita have developed a new depression treatment that aims to help people who don't respond to medications like Prozac and Zoloft. Drs. Sheldon Preskorn and Matthew Macaluso, who are psychiatry researchers for the school, helped ...
Story updated at 9:34 a.m. Thursday University of Kansas interim provost Carl Lejuez gave the clearest picture yet of KU's new budget model during a town hall meeting on campus Wednesday, and said that it would be ready to implement for the 2020-2021 school year. “This is really fully ...
Story updated at 2:03 p.m. Tuesday A University of Kansas eagle has been on the move. The World War I commemorative sculpture “The Victory Eagle,” previously displayed on Jayhawk Boulevard near the front of Dyche Hall, has been moved closer to other war memorials on campus, the university ...