Kansas University plans a special event this weekend for the renaming of the Art and Design Building to E. Laurence Chalmers Hall. The dedication and naming ceremony is planned for 3 p.m. Sunday at the Forum in Marvin Hall, 1465 Jayhawk Blvd. A reception will follow in the study area of ...
After operating its first year with an interim leader, Kansas University’s International Academic Accelerator Program now has a permanent managing director. Amy Neufeld started this month leading the program, which aims to recruit students from around the globe and support them — ...
A group of state university faculty members says Art Hall is not one of them but rather an administrator, so — at least at Kansas University — he’s not entitled to academic freedom to hide his emails.The Kansas Conference of the American Association of University Professors states its ...
The popular bus service between Lawrence and Overland Park resumed Monday for the school year, which begins Aug. 24 at Kansas University’s Lawrence campus. The K-10 Connector — Johnson County Transit Route 710 — runs from 6 a.m. to 7:20 p.m. Monday through Friday, with “rush-hour” ...
Kansas University is no longer selling parking permits in sticker form — and soon will be using cameras to scan license plates and emailing parking tickets instead of sticking them under the windshield wipers. This semester, KU is switching to e-permits for on-campus parking. Or as Danny ...
In his father’s studio near the southeast edge of Lawrence, Kim Tefft hunches over a bronze bust of Dr. James Naismith, chiseling away air bubbles and smoothing out other blemishes inherited from the casting process. The work won't go down in any basketball box score as an assist, but make no ...
Kansas University now has two cases on the list of U.S. Department of Education investigations into colleges’ sexual violence procedures, but the university says both cases were prompted by one individual complaint.The USDE opened its new investigation of KU on July 20, according to the USDE ...
Four candidates for dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Kansas University will visit campus in the coming weeks.KU has not yet announced the candidates’ names, but on Thursday shared the following dates for their public presentations:• Candidate 1 — 4 to 5 p.m. Aug. 24 at ...
In 1996 James Gunn co-founded the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and, for several years, inducted others into it at the hall’s home base, Kansas University.The hall of fame moved in 2004 to a bigger national stage — the national science fiction museum, EMP in Seattle — and this summer Gunn ...
You’re gaming, streaming movies on Netflix, playing that online video lecture before engineering class. Sure, high-speed Internet would be nice.Now, let’s meet Eduardo Rosa-Molinar.Rosa-Molinar, director for Kansas University’s Microscopy Analytical Imaging Resource Core Laboratory, ...
As each person came forward to speak to those gathered at the Dole Institute of Politics on Sunday afternoon for the memorial service of Robert "Bob" Hemenway, an image began to emerge beyond that seen in the many photos of the former Kansas University chancellor in broad-brimmed straw hats. ...
Kansas University this week announced the two undergrads who will be the first Beckman Scholars, a program to foster undergraduate research. They are Michael Cory, Wichita, and Aidan Dmitriev, Lawrence.Funded by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, the 15-month Beckman Scholars Program ...
Sunday’s memorial service for former Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway will be streamed online and also broadcast at the Lied Center, where overflow seating will be available, KU announced this week. KU will provide the live video stream at journalism.ku.edu/live/doleinstitute.The ...
Seventy years ago today, during the final stages of World War II, the United States military dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. American newspaper headlines — including those in the Journal-World — heralded the bomb as a military triumph and scientific breakthrough. ...
Margarita Alely Nuñez Arroyo knows getting to Kansas University, much less staying there, isn’t easy for migrant students. Her parents did not go to college. When she moved from California to Emporia in the middle of high school, following her father’s work, she knew no one. And she’s ...
Former Kansas University chancellor Robert Hemenway, who led KU to new heights in enrollment and research during his 14-year tenure, died Friday night at age 73. Hemenway, KU’s 16th chancellor, died from complications of Parkinson’s disease around 9 p.m. Friday in a Lenexa nursing home, ...
Lawrence will feel younger today — and maybe a bit more harried too. Aug. 1 is the traditional day that new apartment leases begin for thousands of Kansas University students who live off campus. Bars, restaurants, retailers, U-Haul companies and anyone else looking to make a dollar in ...
Seven Kansas University students have won Fulbright awards to research, study or teach abroad during the upcoming school year, KU announced Friday. Since the program’s inception in 1946, 454 KU students have been selected for Fulbright awards, according to the university.The newly announced ...
Peter Kleinhenz is not scared of the 6-foot-1-inch Kansas bull snake coiling around his arm in a meeting room at The Oread hotel. He's impressed.Kleinhenz, however, is a person who's really into reptiles. And in that sense, the recent Southern Oregon University master's graduate is far from ...
This year’s shuttering and planned razing of McCollum Hall and Stouffer Place will leave the east slopes of Daisy and Irving hills a blank canvas. Not for long.Kansas University’s Campus Master Plan calls for transforming the sleepy, tucked-away hillside into a bustling neighborhood with ...