Sustainability & Environment
Thu, 03/13/2014 — John Gaunt, dean of the School of Architecture, Design & Planning for the past 20 years, has announced he plans to step down from his post at the end of the spring 2015 semester.
Gaunt announced his decision earlier this month in an email...
Thu, 03/06/2014 — Sea-level rise is likely to be among the harshest consequences of global climate change. Higher oceans would spell catastrophe for coastal habitats and hundreds of millions of people around the world.
But the rate and extent of sea-level rise...
Wed, 03/05/2014 — Four teams from the departments of Design and Architecture recently spent a weekend participating in the 48Hour Repack competition. They had just 48 hours to come up with a better way to create prototype packaging for one of four breakfast...
Tue, 03/04/2014 — You could consider this University of Kansas multidisciplinary research team the modern day “Monuments Men (and Women).”
Instead of George Clooney leading a band of scholars behind enemy lines into Nazi Germany to save artistic masterpieces,
Mon, 03/03/2014 — The future of agriculture in Kansas could be daunting as global climate change and resource depletion stemming from industrial farming take hold over coming decades.
Now, researchers for the interdisciplinary, National Science...
Mon, 03/03/2014 — "The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now."
That Chinese proverb guides Replant Mount Oread, an effort by the University of Kansas Campus Tree Advisory Board to raise funds for campus trees and involve the campus community in annual planting events. Replant Mount Oread launched in the spring of 2012 to help maintain and enhance the beauty of the KU landscape and ensure that future Jayhawks will be able to experience the same benefits that students, staff, faculty and visitors enjoy today.
The project is launching a two-week fundraising campaign today with a goal to raise $5,000 for its April 11 planting on the Stauffer-Flint
Mon, 02/24/2014 — In 2013 average groundwater levels in central Kansas rose for the first time in four years while levels in western Kansas continued to decline, although less sharply than in 2012, according to preliminary data compiled by the Kansas Geological...
Mon, 02/24/2014 — KU Surplus reached a milestone Feb. 20 by donating its 20,000th item to area nonprofit organizations since the program was established in 2007. KU Surplus is a program of the Center for Sustainability, which collects and redistributes furniture...
Fri, 02/21/2014 — LAWRENCE – A lively and timely discussion of water-related topics that affect Kansas, the Great Plains and the West is scheduled from 3 to 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28 at the Lied Center Pavilion at the University of Kansas. “Water Issues in the West: Regional Perspectives on Interstate Law and Policy” is sponsored by the KU Water Research Planning Committee, a group of faculty and staff working to increase collaborative science and policy research on water. The program is free and open to the public, and an RSVP is requested at rgs@ku.edu.
Featured speakers will be Mike Hayden, former governor of Kansas and now executive director of the Missouri River Association of
Thu, 02/20/2014 — LAWRENCE – University of Kansas researchers who have demonstrated cognitive benefits for individuals who immerse themselves in nature are launching a new project to explore whether such benefits could translate to the workplace. The project is made possible through a $65,000 grant from the Sunflower Foundation: Health Care for Kansans.
Improvement in creative reasoning is a benefit that has been identified in previous research by KU psychology professors Paul Atchley and Ruthann Atchley and University of Utah psychology professor David Strayer. Their results have been published in leading academic and media outlets, including PLOS One, the Los Angeles Times and
Wed, 02/19/2014 — Kansas lies within the Great Plains, the historic grasslands of the central United States, where cropland touches prairie, where few natural lakes and wetlands persist. Into this vast landscape, known as the “Horizontal Yellow” by some...
Tue, 02/18/2014 — Scholars and professionals from across the nation will gather this week at the University of Kansas to discuss the economic challenges faced by rural communities and how to overcome them.
The University of Kansas Journal of Law & Public...
Tue, 02/18/2014 — It’s time for some levelheaded talk about that ostensibly endless stretch of flatness some denigrate as “flyover country” and others respectfully call “Kansas.”
The alleged monotony of the Sunflower State’s terrain is referenced...
Fri, 02/14/2014 — Finding renewable energy sources to sustain the environment and the economy is one of the major challenges of the 21st century. Wai-Lun Chan, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has received a prestigious award from...
Tue, 02/11/2014 — Twenty-one University of Kansas and KU Medical Center undergraduate students and five master’s students will join their peers from other Kansas Board of Regents public universities in Topeka to present their research to legislators and the...
Mon, 02/10/2014 — The University of Kansas Natural History Museum invites the public to shrug off the dreary winter weather and start thinking about sun, wind and water — and the energy they provide. The museum will offer Science Saturday: Renewable Energy from...
Mon, 02/10/2014 — Edmund Russell, the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor of U.S. History at the University of Kansas, will give his Distinguished Professor Lecture, “Co-evolutionary History,” at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, in the Alderson...
Mon, 02/03/2014 — Three new University of Kansas research projects are the latest recipients of internal Strategic Initiative Grants, designed to achieve goals laid out in KU’s Bold Aspirations strategic plan. The three Level I projects address significant...
Fri, 01/31/2014 — A team of researchers from the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas has received a grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to develop technology that better maps and tracks the conditions within...
Tue, 01/28/2014 — Twenty University of Kansas sophomores have been selected for the 33rd class of the University Scholars Program.
Administrated by the University Honors Program, this competitive opportunity is for students selected on the basis of academic...
