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KU on Friday to highlight football stadium’s role as a World War I memorial; plaza honors 130 from KU who served, died
After more than $400 million in renovations, University of Kansas officials are calling David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium “reimagined,” but leaders on Friday will hold a ceremony to ensure one part of its history isn’t forgotten. KU’s chancellor will be joined by military leaders to ...
What to know to go to KU’s revamped football stadium on Saturday; flyovers, parachutists and coordinated clothing
UPDATED 3 P.M. AUG. 22 Flyovers, parachutists, and, perhaps, some fashion coordination are all on tap for the grand re-opening of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium on Saturday. KU officials announced Friday that a team of F-35 fighter jets will fly over the stadium at about 5:15 p.m on ...
New exhibit at KU’s Spencer Museum of Art explores how humans relate to the ocean
KU's Spencer Museum of Art may be hundreds of miles away from the nearest ocean, but a new exhibit there is meant to explore all kinds of ways humans relate to the sea. The new exhibit, titled “Soundings: Making Culture at Sea,” will be on display until Dec. 14 at the museum at 1301 ...
As college athletics undergoes big change, KU’s Girod appointed to serve on NCAA’s governing board
Perhaps one of the few entities getting revamped more than KU’s football stadium is the NCAA itself. University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod now has a front row seat for both projects. Girod has been appointed to both the overall Board of Governors and to the Division I Board of ...
KU GATEWAY: For Girod, Gateway project started with a question: How can we use the stadium more?
There has long been a multimillion-dollar chicken or the egg question at the University of Kansas and its football program. KU Chancellor Douglas Girod got immersed in it even before his first day on the job. A couple of weeks before Girod’s July 2017 start date, the athletic director at ...







