KU news archive
Thu, 10/06/2011 — Kansas City area civic leaders Tom and Judy Bowser have made a $4 million gift commitment to the University of Kansas. The Bowsers, of Olathe, made their gift commitment through KU Endowment to benefit in equal portions The University of...
Thu, 10/06/2011 — Erin Swain, management and program analyst with the U.S. General Services Administration, will speak at the Federal Careers for Young Professionals presentation from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, at the Dole Institute of Politics. ...
Wed, 10/05/2011 — A researcher at the University of Kansas believes the iPad could vastly improve the lives and prospects of children living with cortical visual impairment, a severe neurological disorder resulting from brain damage that prevents children from...
Wed, 10/05/2011 — Crystal Y. Lumpkins, assistant professor of journalism at the University of Kansas, has received a $600,000 National Cancer Institute grant that will allow her to conduct a five-year study to obtain crucial preliminary data to investigate the...
Wed, 10/05/2011 — Flu season has arrived with the cooler weather, and Student Health Services will once again offer flu vaccinations, the most reliable way to ward off the flu. A series of walk-in flu shot clinics is planned for the next four weeks throughout...
Tue, 10/04/2011 — A collaborative project between the University of Kansas School of Music and the School of Education will help Kansas students become more skillful thinkers and help meet the benchmarks for achievement standards in the arts. Project STArts...
Tue, 10/04/2011 — The Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation at the University of Kansas will release tools to help Kansas schools in their transition to using universal educational content standards, known as the Common Core, as the basis for instruction.
Tue, 10/04/2011 — For patients and their families, a visit to the hospital can entail waiting outside the intensive care unit (ICU) or emergency room — and the wait isn’t always pleasant. But a team of students from the University of Kansas School of...
Tue, 10/04/2011 — On Thursday, Oct. 6, The Project on the History of Black Writing at the University of Kansas will present selections from its 100 Novels project that highlight the significance of “place” for African-American writers. This one-day...
Mon, 10/03/2011 — Cynthia Kenyon More Information KU School of Pharmacy In 1993, Cynthia Kenyon and colleagues’ discovery that a single-gene mutation could double the lifespan of the tiny roundworm C. elegans sparked an intensive study of the molecular biology of aging. Kenyon, director of the Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging at the University of California-San Francisco, will speak about her research at the 2011
Mon, 10/03/2011 — Elizabeth Ablah and Suzanne Hawley More Information KU School of Medicine-Wichita WICHITA – Suzanne Hawley and Elizabeth Ablah received awards at the Kansas Public Health Association’s annual conference, which was Sept. 22 in Wichita. Dr. Hawley, associate professor and Master of Public Health (MPH) program director on the Wichita Campus, received the Samuel J. Crumbine Medal. The highest award given by the
Fri, 09/30/2011 — More Information KU Endowment The KU Endowment Board of Trustees elected two new trustees at its 120th annual meeting, held Sept. 30. Beverly J. Gaines, of Fredonia, graduated from KU in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in nursing and earned a master’s degree in business management from Friends University in 1989. She is vice president of First National Bank in Fredonia. Jeff N. Gentry, of Andover, graduated from KU in 1983
Fri, 09/30/2011 — More Information KU Endowment KU Endowment distributed $112.3 million in direct financial support to the University of Kansas in fiscal year 2011, which ended June 30. The funds provide support for the university’s four campuses and the University of Kansas Hospital. This support benefits students, programs, research, faculty, facilities and patient care. “Private support is essential to building a greater KU
Fri, 09/30/2011 — Valentino J. Stella, University Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, has been selected to receive the Distinguished Pharmaceutical Scientist Award from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS). The...
Fri, 09/30/2011 — The Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies announces the Ukrainian Studies 2011 Palij Lecture by Ukrainian-Canadian filmmaker Yurij Luhovy and a viewing of his documentary, “Genocide Revealed.” The event will be at 7 p.m....
Fri, 09/30/2011 — The Public Service Career Fair will take place from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, at the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. The Public Service Career Fair allows KU students who are interested in a government...
Thu, 09/29/2011 — In architecture, a whispering gallery is an arch or vault that projects sound so that a person at one end can hear someone else whispering from the other side. In science, whispering gallery mode resonators are tiny glass beads that trap...
Wed, 09/28/2011 — A linguistics professor who built enrollment in one of her classes from 15 to 200 is the 2011 recipient of the Budig Teaching Professorship in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Kansas. Joan Sereno, who has taught in the...
Wed, 09/28/2011 — More Information KU School of Engineering The University of Kansas School of Engineering made significant gains in undergraduate enrollment this fall as part of an ongoing effort to meet Kansas’ workforce needs. Fall enrollment reached a 29-year high at 1,911 undergraduate students. The figure represents a 6.6 percent increase (119 students) over last year. The enrollment increase is part of the school’s long-term
