As filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster "Oppenheimer" nears $1 billion in global box office revenue, Lawrence moviegoers may not realize a local tie to the story of the scientist who ushered in the atomic age. The film is based on the 2005 biography "American Prometheus: The ...
A longtime executive in the publishing world — including with the large book publisher HarperCollins — has been named the next director of the University Press of Kansas. Timothy Paulson has been appointed to the top position at the Lawrence-based publishing house, which serves KU and the ...
A longtime employee and fundraiser for Kansas Public Radio has been named the nonprofit’s new director. Feloniz Lovato-Winston will become the director for Kansas Public Radio and its Audio-Reader program, officials at the University of Kansas — which oversees the radio operations and ...
An exhibit that creates a fusion between contemporary art and Black writing has opened at KU’s Spencer Museum of Art. “Black Writing” opened on Saturday and will remain on display at Spencer, 1301 Mississippi St., on the University of Kansas campus, until Jan. 7. A centerpiece of the ...
The incoming freshman class of the University of Kansas is projected to be so large that KU is leasing space in three off-campus apartment complexes to house an overflow number of first-year students. In fact, some KU leaders think the incoming freshman class will be the largest in the ...
The University of Kansas Alumni Association on Friday unveiled a new Baby Jay statue in front of the Jayhawk Welcome Center. The bronze depiction of KU's beloved junior mascot was made possible by KU alumni William E. Roskens, Brenda Roskens Dicus and Barbara Roskens Blount. Their gift is a ...