KU news archive
Wed, 09/20/2023 — Four University of Kansas professors have been selected for The Big XII Faculty Fellowship Program, which provides tenured and tenure-track faculty up to $2,500 in travel funding to collaborate with peers at other Big 12 institutions. Fellows...
Wed, 09/20/2023 — A new University of Kansas genomic investigation of a group of unheralded but unique “mud snakes” from Southeast Asia is rewriting the evolutionary history of this family, named the Homalopsidae. The results just were published in the...
Wed, 09/20/2023 — The Central Park Five. Amanda Knox. Henry and Leon McCollum. Kevin Strickland.
More stories emerge seemingly every week about convicted “criminals” being exonerated.
“Wrongful convictions are not a new phenomenon. What is new is the...
Wed, 09/20/2023 — Red Hot Research returns for three sessions this fall, offering a fast-paced, presentation-style event from The Commons at the University of Kansas as a way of introducing colleagues to one another.
Events are planned Sept. 29, Oct. 27 and Nov....
Wed, 09/20/2023 — The University of Kansas Jayhawk Global has announced the appointment of Jennifer Johnson as the director of the Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute (KFRTI). The decision follows an extensive nationwide search and has been confirmed by...
Tue, 09/19/2023 — The University of Kansas has announced that four professors have been awarded Keeler Intra-University Professorships, which provide faculty the opportunity to expand their scholarship and foster cross-disciplinary collaboration.
The 2023-24...
Tue, 09/19/2023 — The University of Kansas ranked 40th among public institutions in the Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted Utility Patents in 2022, a new list published by the National Academy of Inventors. The list showcases universities that play a pivotal role...
Mon, 09/18/2023 — The stock market is known for its unpredictable nature. But how do investors react when an external event further throws it into chaos?
“Disasters are rare, and the COVID-19 pandemic brought a new wave of uncertainty to the stock market,”...
Mon, 09/18/2023 — The University of Kansas fell 24 spots among public universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges” rankings.
The drop is due almost entirely to significant changes in the U.S. News rankings methodology to emphasize...
Fri, 09/15/2023 — A collaborative series at the University of Kansas that centers misinformation, disinformation and the wellness of democracy resumes in fall 2023 with a program about the Ogallala Aquifer, the center of substantial research and public debate...
Thu, 09/14/2023 — University of Kansas faculty members from the Lawrence and KU Medical Center campuses are being recognized as winners of annual teaching awards.
These outstanding faculty will be honored at the inaugural University Teaching Awards ceremony Nov....
Thu, 09/14/2023 — From sparking science curiosity in children through hands-on experiments to showcasing the excellence and variety of University of Kansas research at a local brewery, the KU Natural History Museum has a full slate of science-themed public events...
Wed, 09/13/2023 — In many ways, the previous century was defined by its wars. But a new book argues that an equally important and perhaps even more significant period existed between World War I and II.
“This sense of crisis, of ennui, of worry about where we...
Tue, 09/12/2023 — The idea of forgetting classic Shakespeare plays like “Macbeth” or “Julius Caesar” is nearly unthinkable. But if not for the foresight of two actors and friends of William Shakespeare to publish a book 400 years ago, those plays might...
Tue, 09/12/2023 — The School of Architecture & Design at the University of Kansas has announced programming for the Fall 2023 Architecture Lecture Series.
The Architecture Lecture Series welcomes architectural and experiential design leaders from across...
Tue, 09/12/2023 — The 57th edition of the Kansas Statistical Abstract, an annually released compendium of data about Kansas, is now available on the Institute for Policy & Social Research website.
The KSA publishes data in 17 sections ranging from...
Mon, 09/11/2023 —
LAWRENCE – When did Latinos start to imagine the Midwest as a possible homeland? When Tejano cowboys drove their cattle to market in early 20th century Kansas City? When bracero migrant workers arrived during World War II and continued coming in the postwar era?
Those are two possible answers postulated by Marta Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas Distinguished Professor of English, in her new article “Imagining a Latino Heartland: Migrant Placemaking, Corridos of the Midwest, and Tomás Rivera” in the journal MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States).
“This article is part of a book project I'm working on called ‘Imagining a Latino Heartland,’”
Fri, 09/08/2023 — Schools and prisons share many similarities: authoritarian structure, emphasis on silence and order, schedules to follow, rules not to break.
“Teachers and administrators need to discontinue the relationship between punishment and education...
Fri, 09/08/2023 — This fall, International Support Services is launching the Atlas Series, biweekly programs that will encourage international and domestic students to share their culture and build community at KU.
The series will be held every two weeks...
Fri, 09/08/2023 — The University of Kansas School of Pharmacy hosted white coat ceremonies this week for its class of 2027. Faculty on the Wichita campus helped their students don white coats Sept. 5, while Lawrence campus students met at the Lied Center of...
