David Henry, associate professor and department of pharmacy practice chairman at Kansas University School of Pharmacy, earned the 2015 Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association Award of Excellence, KU announced this week. The national award recognizes a member who has demonstrated outstanding ...
As exciting as the event is for the astronomy world, the unprecedented number and quality of photos planned to be taken of Pluto Tuesday probably won’t help it recapture its lost planet-hood.But the historic fly-by by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will still be a very big deal for demoted ...
It’s been one year since Kansas University was added to a widely publicized and often negatively viewed list: the list of colleges being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education for their handling of sexual violence cases.When KU will get off that list — and when the public will ...
A man accused of raping a fellow Kansas University freshman in Lewis Hall in fall 2013 will not be criminally charged. Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson said, in response to an inquiry from the Journal-World, that his office has officially closed the case. “After several ...
Fundraising is all but complete for Kansas University’s most expensive privately funded academic building to date, according to KU Endowment. KU Endowment’s fundraising goal for Capitol Federal Hall, the new School of Business building on Naismith Drive, is $60.5 million, and the campaign ...
Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said her administration plans to respond this fall to recommendations put forth by the KU Sexual Assault Task Force.Over the summer, Sara Rosen, senior vice provost for academic affairs, and Tammara Durham, vice provost for student affairs, ...
Winners from the International Institute for Young Musicians International Piano Competition, which took place Sunday and Monday at Kansas University’s Swarthout Recital Hall, will perform at a special concert Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St.The ...
For the first time, Kansas University has cracked the top 100 in worldwide rankings of universities receiving U.S. utility patents.The National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association recently reported that KU was granted 28 U.S. utility patents in 2014, tying for ...
Dennis Christilles has been traveling to Greece regularly for two decades. On his most recent visit, two weeks ago, he found it markedly different due to the country’s financial crisis. Anxiety seemed to blanket the country, he said. Even more so than in rural communities, such as ...
For 18 years, Christine Fisher has been one of just three or four cardiologists practicing in Hays, where patients may live hours away and ambulances are scant.Patients waiting to call for help until they can’t wait anymore is routine, she said.“Heart attack after heart attack, stent after ...
The McCollum brothers were born close together, attended Kansas University together, made scientific history in their respective fields together and — for almost 50 years — had their painted portraits hanging together in the KU residence hall named for them. With McCollum Hall closed and ...
Kansas University’s Stouffer Place apartments closed for good on Tuesday, marking the end of an era for the 58-year-old housing complex and for many families who called it home.The 25-building complex opened in 1957 as married-student housing.It eventually opened up to students with children ...
Two Lawrence residents were honored this month by the Kansas University Hospital Hall of Fame, the hospital announced. Former Farmland Industries CEO Bob Honse, a longtime Hospital Authority Board member and board chair for the last seven years, received the Legacy Award. The award honors ...
When Kevin Willmott wrote and directed the mockumentary film “C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America,” which screened at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, he knew it would be relevant for a long time. Sure enough.The June 17 mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church ...
A corner inside the library. An empty classroom. A low-traffic stairwell.Shegufta Huma said she and other Muslim students at Kansas University have had to use those and whatever other spaces they can find for the 10- to 15-minute prayer sessions they pause for multiple times a day. “KU never ...
A lot of folks were left scratching their heads after a mysterious structure resembling an old-timey toy store sprung up seemingly overnight in an East Lawrence industrial park just over a week ago. Those who happened to stumble upon the mid-century-style monolith posted pictures on social ...
If everyone's supposed to be objectively interpreting the same Constitution, how is it that Supreme Court justices split almost down the middle on the same-sex marriage issue?“That’s a question that I struggle to answer for my students on a daily basis,” says Richard Levy, Kansas ...
Kansas University is one of 18 institutions named this year to the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities 2015 class of Innovation and Economic Prosperity Universities, KU announced Wednesday.The designation, which KU called a "prestigious distinction," is valid for 10 years. It ...
The Kansas University chancellor will join other state university CEOs in donating her raise back to the university, a KU spokeswoman said today. Bernadette Gray-Little regularly makes gifts to KU that exceed her annual salary increase and plans to do so this year as well, spokeswoman Erinn ...
Kansas University is importing its next Foundation Distinguished Professor — an expert in forward and diffractive physics — from France. Christophe Royon is research director at CEA-Saclay, or the French Atomic Energy Commission, a public research organization in the fields of energy, ...