The public can celebrate the summer solstice with a guided tour of KU's medicinal garden that will highlight ecological research, student projects and community partnerships. The tour will take place at 7 p.m. Friday. The garden is east of the Lawrence Municipal Airport next to Prairie Moon ...

The University of Kansas Wind Ensemble will be representing the U.S. at the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, Japan, in late June and early July, according to a news release from KU. The ensemble's trip will run from June 25 to July 5, the release said, and musicians from KU will play ...

Later this month, KU will end its 2025 fiscal year having nearly eliminated a $50 million budget deficit on its Lawrence campus. There won’t be much time to party, though. The university is projecting a more than $20 million deficit for the next fiscal year, as a new set of financial ...

The house has come down on college athletics. Named after a suing student-athlete, the class action lawsuit commonly known as House v. NCAA had its long-awaited settlement approved earlier this month. Beginning July 1, college athletic programs can start handing out about $20.5 million worth ...

There was an expectation Thursday that the chancellor and university presidents might get raises from the Kansas Board of Regents. Instead, Regents delivered — without any discussion — a new policy on how the leaders of the state’s universities should be paid, and left open the question ...

The summer season is sometimes dreaming season at the state’s universities, and KU has added the idea of a multimillion-dollar center to spur the production of energy in Kansas to its wish list. A request for $10 million in state funding to help create the Kansas Center for Energy ...