TOPEKA — A Legislative panel voted Wednesday to approve the appointment of a former railway executive, a former state senator and an educator to the board that governs the state's six universities after members previously expressed concerns. The vote by the Senate Oversight Committee means ...
University of Kansas undergraduates have taken part in the first-ever nationwide mammal survey, with results published in the journal Ecology. Called Snapshot USA, the survey comprises scientists from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology ...
Author, professor and antiracist activist Ibram X. Kendi will speak at the Lied Center this fall at the University of Kansas. Kendi's presentation, rescheduled from March 2020, will be titled “How To Be An Antiracist: A conversation with Ibram X. Kendi.” It's scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ...
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how to lower the cost of higher education in Kansas. Just create a program that gives two free years of education to future rocket scientists. And to elementary teachers and health care workers and IT professionals and dozens of other ...
For Devon Mihesuah, a University of Kansas professor and enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, fiction is a way to get at some of the deeper truths she explores in her award-winning nonfiction writing on Indigenous people’s issues. Or at least it’s a chance to write about them ...
The Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas soon will become a center that helps people from across the world find and access the notes of past senators and members of Congress. The Dole Institute is part of a group that has received a $60,000 grant to establish an online ...