KU news archive
Thu, 06/22/2023 — The University of Kansas School of Law’s moot court program is 10th in the nation, according to rankings published recently by the University of Houston Law Center.
This is the highest KU Law has ever been ranked and the first time the school...
Wed, 06/21/2023 — Before and apart from modern Israel, the stateless, “wandering” Jew was and is a cliché. So how can there be a particularly Jewish form of political thought?
Proof of that can be found in a new book “The King Is in the Field: Essays in...
Wed, 06/21/2023 — Members of the media are invited to attend and interview renowned artist Stan Herd next week as he continues his work on a landmark earthwork at the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. The piece will commemorate the 20th...
Tue, 06/20/2023 — The Department of Theatre & Dance at the University of Kansas recognized 59 students for academic merit and contributions to departmental performances at its year-end awards ceremony in May.
“Scholarships make a tangible difference in...
Tue, 06/20/2023 — When Rémy Lequesne worked his steel-toed boots over the pervasive rubble of apartment buildings, schools, hospitals and dozens of other structures damaged and destroyed by a massive earthquake in early February in Turkey, he faced the real-life...
Tue, 06/20/2023 — Arbitration is an area of law with both a long history and a trend of rapid evolution in recent decades. A University of Kansas professor of law is lead author of a new book designed to guide law students, practicing lawyers and researchers...
Mon, 06/19/2023 — Every square is a rectangle. But not every rectangle is a square.
And according to Scott Murphy, a professor in the University of Kansas School of Music, the prevailing neo-Riemannian musical theories have been classifying many musical squares...
Thu, 06/15/2023 — A University of Kansas researcher who developed the first screening tool for eating disorders in veterans has been awarded a four-year, $4.2 million grant by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to address eating disorders in active-duty members...
Thu, 06/15/2023 —
LAWRENCE – The University of Kansas was awarded a $35,000 grant from the U.S. Department of State to develop a hybrid study abroad program aimed at encouraging underrepresented students to travel internationally.
KU was one of 34 U.S. colleges and universities to receive a grant from the State Department’s Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students (IDEAS) Program. The IDEAS program is designed to develop and expand study abroad programs around the world and contribute to the State Department’s diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility efforts to engage Americans in foreign policy.
Elizabeth MacGonagle, associate professor of history
Thu, 06/15/2023 — LAWRENCE – Sixty-three University of Kansas School of Law students provided 1,927 hours of free legal services during the 2022-2023 academic year, earning them a spot on KU Law’s Pro Bono Honor Roll.
Students prepared tax returns for low-income residents, represented the interests of children as court-appointed special advocates, helped clients expunge past criminal convictions and prepared guardianship petitions for families seeking to secure their adult children’s futures.
“Pro bono service is a great opportunity for law students to experience firsthand how a lawyer can make a meaningful difference in someone’s life,” said Meredith Schnug, clinical associate
Thu, 06/15/2023 — An investigator with the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy has filed an invention disclosure, part of a provisional patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, for a treatment that could apply to heart disease,...
Thu, 06/15/2023 — As organizations grow, they are constantly on the lookout for well-educated professionals to manage teams and oversee operations. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in all management occupations is projected to grow 8% by...
Tue, 06/13/2023 — This July, aspiring filmmakers can learn firsthand the methods and tools used by a successful writer-director to craft award-winning films. Taught by Kevin Willmott — a KU professor of film & media studies who won the Academy Award for...
Tue, 06/13/2023 — Just over half a century ago, world leaders gathered for the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, one of the first international efforts to protect the Earth and develop policies for sustainability and to reduce environmental...
Mon, 06/12/2023 —
LAWRENCE – Stephen T. Johnson’s “My Little Blue Robot” is all grown up.
The retro-futuristic automaton has not changed in size but has been rebranded as “My Big Blue Robot.” It is one in a series of children’s books designed by the University of Kansas lecturer in graphic design & illustration to foster interactive, imaginative play while functioning as both a book and a toy.
“My Big Blue Robot” is one of three titles Johnson designed, wrote and illustrated between 2000 and 2012 that Simon & Schuster has just reissued along with his latest release, “My Big Silver Rocket Ship,” published in April. As both books and toys, the titles are available via online
Thu, 06/08/2023 — Artificial intelligence is making headlines about its potentially disruptive influence in many spaces, including the classroom. A group of educators that includes a University of Kansas researcher has just published a position paper reviewing...
Thu, 06/08/2023 — A new study appearing today in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE shows how federal and state lockdowns and health mandates implemented to curb the spread of COVID-19 affected the mental health of people living in four U.S. geographic regions...
Thu, 06/08/2023 — Heather Desaire, a chemist who uses machine learning in biomedical research at the University of Kansas, has unveiled a new tool that detects with 99% accuracy scientific text generated by ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence text...
Wed, 06/07/2023 — Kiana Magee, a 2023 University of Kansas graduate with a double major in molecular, cellular & developmental biology and psychology, is the winner of the James Blackiston Memorial Graduate Fellowship from the KU chapter of Phi Kappa Phi....
Tue, 06/06/2023 — Over the past few decades, herbaria and museums worldwide have created digital data records documenting millions of specimens in their holdings. The benefits of digitizing the contents of natural history museums and research institutions flow to...
