The published works of Devon Mihesuah fill a wide space between two bookends in her office at the University of Kansas. The prolific author juggles her time between being a professor, writing (both fiction and nonfiction), and advocating for healthy eating in the Native American community, ...
Politicians need to return to the qualities of true leadership that former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole personified if Washington is to solve problems, former Hewlett-Packard CEO and 2016 presidential candidate Carly Fiorina told an audience Sunday at the University of Kansas' Robert J. Dole Institute of ...
University of Kansas junior Sam Steuart, of Topeka, is one of 62 students nationally who have been awarded the prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship. Steuart becomes the 20th KU student to receive the scholarship since 1981, according to KU. The award includes $30,000 toward graduate ...
The University of Kansas debate program has been honored for its performance not just this season but over the past 20 years. The Cross Examination Debate Association awarded KU its top team ranking, based on points earned at tournaments, for the 2018-2019 season during the recent CEDA ...
Associated Press Executive Editor Sally Buzbee remembers how her fellow journalists at the AP were being labeled as unpatriotic in the mid-2000s when they reported the war in Iraq was going poorly for the U.S. “I thought the U.S. was over that sort of thing,” said Buzbee, who was the ...
Former Republican presidential candidate and businessman Herman Cain on Wednesday delivered the J.A. Vickers Sr. and Robert F. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lecture at the University of Kansas School of Business. Photos by Ashley Hocking/Lawrence Journal-World Related coverage - More on Cain's ...
Story updated 6:21 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, 2019: The University of Kansas Natural History Museum this week found itself in the middle of a big flap over a “baby” fossil. The museum pulled a set of juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex bones from public view following criticism about the fossil’s ...
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Marilynn Smith, one of the 13 founders of the LPGA Tour whose 21 victories, two majors and endless support of her tour led to her induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame, died Tuesday. She was 89. She died in Goodyear, Arizona, surrounded by family and friends, the ...
A former Adidas executive has agreed to pay the University of Kansas restitution as part of a federal fraud case involving college basketball recruiting. ESPN reported Monday evening that James Gatto has agreed to pay $342,437.75 in restitution to KU and North Carolina State for his role in ...
A Lawrence woman whose experience of being kicked out of her home as a 16-year-old because of her sexual orientation was highlighted on the Netflix show "Queer Eye" has a fresh shot at college after fans of the show raised enough to pay off her student loans. The show tells the story of ...
When it comes to responding to reports of sexual assault, response teams on college campuses face a set of barriers that prevent their work from being as effective as similar programs run by cities and counties, according to a University of Kansas study. But this revelation is allowing the ...
The NCAA is “aggressively” pursuing evidence obtained by the FBI for the college basketball corruption trials, NCAA President Mark Emmert said. Emmert, who made the comments Thursday during a news conference for the NCAA’s Final Four basketball tournament in Minneapolis, Minn., said the ...
Through a $500,000 gift to KU Endowment, a University of Kansas alumnus established a new professorship at the university focused on military history. David Pittaway, of Naples, Fla., donated the gift to create the professorship because he thinks vital military history, including the study of ...
A University of Kansas course focusing on angry white men received some national attention on Wednesday. The course Angry White Male Studies is listed as a Humanities and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies course in the KU catalog for the 2019-2020 school year. Conservative higher education ...
Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward will speak at two Lawrence events next week as part of the University of Kansas' Hall Center Humanities Lecture Series. Ward, the author of “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” which won a 2017 National Book Award, will deliver a lecture at 7:30 p.m. April 11 at ...
An unusual opportunity to see the Kansas Supreme Court in action proved popular among Lawrence area residents. Just over 800 people attended the court’s special session Monday night at the Lied Center, according to Lisa Taylor, the court’s public information director. She said the ...
A former business leader and recent Republican presidential candidate will deliver the University of Kansas' prestigious Dole Lecture later this month. Carly Fiorina, who was a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, will speak 4 p.m. April 14 at the Dole Institute, 2350 ...
A University of Kansas doctoral student who was forced to flee his country will share his story Wednesday night at the Lawrence Public Library. The student, Samuel Dermas, began working on a second doctoral degree this semester at KU. He is originally from Eritrea, a country in east Africa ...
WASHINGTON — New research released Friday captures a fossilized snapshot of the day nearly 66 million years ago when an asteroid smacked Earth, fire rained from the sky and the ground shook far worse than any modern earthquake. It was the day that nearly all life on Earth went extinct, ...
Story updated at 4:24 p.m. Friday, March 29, 2019: A University of Kansas star football player who was accused of punching a woman in the stomach and grabbing her throat has agreed to steps that could end the criminal case against him. Pooka Williams and Douglas County District Attorney ...