A University of Kansas researcher has been awarded a nearly $1 million federal grant to study how redwoods and other large trees have adapted to a changing planet over the last 300 million years. Kelly Matsunaga, an assistant curator and assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary ...
The University of Kansas on Thursday announced the next dean of the KU School of Engineering: Mary Rezac, currently serves as the dean of Washington State University’s Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture. “With her record of excellence in education and research and her ...
Goshen College multi-sport athlete Katie Sowers was denied a role as volunteer assistant basketball coach by administrators at the Mennonite-affiliated private school because she was gay. Sowers, who grew up in Hesston, Kansas, had completed her basketball eligibility at Goshen after four ...
A West Virginia professor has been chosen as the new leader of the University of Kansas’ highly ranked School of Public Affairs & Administration. Maja Husar Holmes has been chosen as the new director of KU’s School of Public Affairs & Administration, which has been U.S. News & ...
TOPEKA — Academy Award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker Kevin Willmott welcomed the U.S. Army’s decision to set aside courts-martial convictions of 110 Black soldiers, including 19 executed for involvement in World War I-era race rioting in Houston. Willmott, a professor of film at ...
A more than $2 million federal grant will ensure the University of Kansas remains the leading repository of data related to how much states spend to fund programs related to developmental disabilities. KU has received a five-year, $2.25 million grant from a division of the U.S. Health and ...