KU news archive
Tue, 06/06/2023 — This week, 16 middle school science teachers from Kansas have converged at the KU Field Station, just north of Lawrence. They are spending three days together working with University of Kansas scientists to explore resources and gain new ideas...
Mon, 06/05/2023 — Michelle Mohr Carney, founding vice provost for Jayhawk Global, has appointed Jennifer Johnson to serve as interim director of Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute (KFRTI). Johnson has held leadership roles with KFRTI since January 2020....
Fri, 06/02/2023 — The public is invited to the summer semiannual tour of the University of Kansas Native Medicinal Plant Garden at 6:30 p.m. June 21, on the summer solstice.
The garden, situated just east of the Lawrence Municipal Airport (directions and map),...
Thu, 06/01/2023 — A University of Kansas lab director has been awarded $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to recycle helium from research equipment. His efforts will help ensure future generations of scientists have access to the nonrenewable gas...
Thu, 06/01/2023 — LAWRENCE – The University of Kansas School of Business will host its seventh annual Summer Venture in Business program for high school students from June 11-16.
The pre-college program gives rising 10th, 11th and 12th grade high school students from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds and/or potential first-generation college students an opportunity to explore the different business school majors. Students stay on campus and get exposure to business topics, resources for applying to KU and tools to be successful in college and beyond at no cost to the participants. This is the first year the program will host students for an entire week rather than two sessions
Wed, 05/31/2023 — Across the country, people are evicted from their homes for various reasons, but not evenly by community or by neighborhood. A new study from the University of Kansas shows that neighborhood characteristics such as those in which renters are...
Tue, 05/30/2023 — When a city official in Cancun imposed a ban hours before a May 19 concert by pop musicians associated with the narcocorrido, or drug ballad, accusing them of fomenting violence, the ensuing headlines may have brought the genre to the attention...
Tue, 05/30/2023 — Any parent can tell you that work doesn’t stop when you leave the office and go home. Yet national and international economic statistics only consider the work that happens “at the market,” or outside the home — not caring for children,...
Tue, 05/30/2023 — Two projects — one investigating vaccine efficacy for chlamydia and Lyme disease and the other trying to improve breast cancer response to immunotherapy — were selected to receive the 2023 J.R. and Inez Jay Fund research award. Researchers...
Tue, 05/30/2023 — Bruce Lieberman knows something about evolution. As a professor in the University of Kansas Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and a senior curator at KU’s Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum, he’s an expert on...
Thu, 05/25/2023 — Two doctoral candidates and one faculty member received honors during the 2023 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony at the University of Kansas.
“I am extremely proud to recognize these three individuals for their contributions to scholarship and to the...
Thu, 05/25/2023 — Evan Franseen, professor of geology at the University of Kansas, senior scientific fellow at the Kansas Geological Survey and co-director of the Kansas Interdisciplinary Carbonates Consortium, is the recipient of the 2023 Honorary Membership...
Thu, 05/25/2023 —
LAWRENCE – Fourteen University of Kansas School of Law students received awards during the spring 2023 semester for distinguishing themselves in scholarship, leadership and service to the law school and the community.
The recipients:
Thu, 05/25/2023 — A team of University of Kansas researchers is helping uncover hidden aspects of Ewing sarcoma, which may lead to the discovery of new cancer treatments.
Mizuki Azuma, associate professor of molecular biosciences, sought to go beyond the...
Tue, 05/23/2023 — When most researchers looked at a puzzling group of artifacts discovered at French archaeological sites, they presumed these to be ornaments or clothing. But Justin Garnett saw something else.
“They resembled finger loops like those used by...
Tue, 05/23/2023 — KU International Affairs has awarded more than $26,000 in travel grants to 11 KU faculty members and two graduate students to support research and collaboration abroad.
These competitively awarded funds were dispersed among faculty and students...
Mon, 05/22/2023 — The University of Kansas Sexual Assault Prevention & Education Center (SAPEC) is seeking faculty, staff and graduate students to volunteer their time for the Jayhawks Give a Flock bystander intervention program.
SAPEC needs at least 200...
Mon, 05/22/2023 — University Support Staff and Unclassified Professional Staff retirees were recognized at a May 12 luncheon in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Barbara Bichelmeyer, provost and executive vice chancellor, and Mike Rounds, vice provost for human resources,
Mon, 05/22/2023 — The United States and countries like Pakistan, India and Bangladesh are quite different culturally. But the people residing in those nations are not so different that Americans would have double the rates of autism spectrum disorder. Yet,...
Fri, 05/19/2023 — The University of Kansas School of Pharmacy has recognized Harold Godwin, professor emeritus, as its 2023 Distinguished Service Award recipient. Godwin, a Ness City native, served the University of Kansas for 47 years in faculty and...
