The bleachers inside David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium won’t look quite so empty at the KU football team’s next home game. After the Jayhawks played their Sept. 12 opener without any fans, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod announced Friday the team’s Oct. 3 matchup with Oklahoma State will ...
The University of Kansas will use federal funds from the CARES Act stimulus package — allocated by Gov. Laura Kelly's SPARK Taskforce — to establish a child care assistance fund for employees facing unexpected costs due to their children's school being moved again to online or hybrid ...
Gale Sayers, a Kansas football legend who went on to become one of the NFL’s best all-purpose running backs, died Wednesday at the age of 77, the Pro Football Hall of Fame announced. A speedy running back for the Jayhawks from 1962-64 and known as “The Kansas Comet,” Sayers was ...
The University of Kansas announced Tuesday that it has confirmed another 56 cases of COVID-19 since it last released data on Friday, bringing the university's cumulative case total to 938. In the most recent seven-day period for which data is available, Sept. 14-20, the KU community also ...
A student leader has filed a complaint with the Kansas attorney general alleging the University of Kansas is improperly keeping the public out of key meetings on how the campus will operate during the pandemic. Wes Cudney, leader of the student group Against Rising Tuition at KU, said he ...
Reggie Robinson, the current president of the Kansas Health Foundation who previously served as a longtime faculty member and administrator at the University of Kansas and as the former president and CEO of the Kansas Board of Regents, died of cancer on Saturday at the age of 63. Known for his ...
The University of Kansas on Friday unveiled a new COVID-19 forecasting tool and confirmed 41 new cases of the virus since it last released data on Tuesday, bringing the total case count at the university to 882. Chancellor Douglas Girod said the new two-week forecasting model projects what ...
Through a new drive-thru clinic in the parking lot of Naismith Hall, the University of Kansas now has the ability to offer an additional 50 COVID-19 tests per day specifically for those showing symptoms of the respiratory virus. Through a partnership with the KU Health System, the university ...
Citing financial obstacles created by the COVID-19 crisis, Kansas Athletics announced Wednesday the 2021 Kansas Relays will be postponed. KU Athletic Director Jeff Long said the move will save the athletic department $300,000, and said the event likely would have cost more than usual due to ...
The board overseeing Kansas Athletics on Wednesday unanimously approved two measures intended to shore up the department's financial situation as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to strain revenue streams. The first measure gives Athletics Director Jeff Long and CFO Pat Kaufman the authority ...
Three weeks after announcing the creation of a 27-member task force dedicated to reviewing policies on local policing, the University of Kansas on Wednesday announced two public listening sessions and a town hall at which the public can bring concerns to the task force. Because of the ...
The University of Kansas' total number of COVID-19 cases has risen to 841, the school announced Tuesday afternoon — an increase of 42 cases since Friday, when testing data was last released. Out of 779 total tests conducted between Sept. 7 and Sept. 13, 85 members of the KU community tested ...
Courtside Cafe, the food court located inside the DeBruce Center at the University of Kansas, will close through Sept. 28 after a part-time employee of KU Dining tested positive for COVID-19, the Journal-World has learned. No patrons were in close enough contact with the worker to be ...
Former United States poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will speak online Wednesday night as part of the University of Kansas' Hall Center's humanities lecture series. Herrera, the first Mexican American to become poet laureate of the United States, held the position from 2015 to 2017. His work ...
The University of Kansas fell one spot to 60th among public universities, but moved up six spots among all universities in the 2021 edition of the U.S. News & World Report's rankings of best colleges released Monday. The rankings from the online media company that analyzes and ranks ...
Story updated at 6:43 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14: TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly said Monday that Kansas' SPARK Taskforce, which is tasked with overseeing economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, will advocate later this week for spending "a fair chunk" of federal CARES Act dollars on expanding ...
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities across Kansas have been tasked with a difficult "balancing act" of trying to resume some semblance of normal educational activities while at the same time weighing significant public health concerns, the state's top health ...
For the first time in over a week, the University of Kansas on Friday released new data on the prevalence of COVID-19 on its campuses as part of the unveiling of a new dashboard with expanded statistical information about the respiratory virus. Since its last data release on Sept. 2, KU has ...
The University of Kansas won’t say whether meetings of a nine-member medical advisory team tasked with monitoring the school’s reopening process during the COVID-19 pandemic — and potentially making substantive decisions about KU’s operational status — are open to the public. And ...
Updated at 2:46 p.m. Wednesday The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Wednesday released for the first time a list of specific locations and case counts associated with outbreaks of COVID-19 across the state. Of the 177 active outbreaks the department is tracking, four currently ...