University of Kansas News

With proposed budget cuts to higher education still on the table, University of Kansas officials reassigned their lead lobbyist away from the Kansas legislature, The Lawrence Journal-World reports.

The University of Kansas has a good one, and a big one. After the Ducks signed Mike Moser from UNLV the hope was to get another coveted recruit in Tarik Black, but he turned down the Ducks and will play for the Jayhawks.

Feely Awarded Theory-to-Practice Grant Eleanor Feely of Libertyville has been awarded a Theory-to-Practice Grant from Ohio Wesleyan University.

Andrew Hodges, a former prosecutor with the 8th Circuit Solicitor's Office, now works as a private defense attorney.

The Barton Community College Foundation honored Dr. Mary Davidson Cohen with the 2013 Distinguished Service Award during Barton's 43rd commencement on Friday.

"Aren't they something?" Pam Bowers said as she watched three vultures slowly circling high above the city park this week.

Graduation at Kansas State University begins at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at Bramlage Coliseum.

An Organization of American States study commissioned in response to calls by some Latin American leaders for rethinking the war on drugs advocates serious discussion of legalizing marijuana.

Good for the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce and city and county leaders for writing University of Kansas chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little to express their concerns over possible cuts to the KU School of Medicine in Wichita.

This weekend, when Wes Jackson, founder of the Salina-based Land Institute, addresses graduates at the University of Kansas' 141 Recently, the Land Institute and the Environmental Studies Program at KU founded a partnership intended to encourage research in the development of "perennial polycultures." Participating faculty members in the initiative ... (more)

The writer, a McCook, Neb., native, is past president/chancellor of three major state universities .

In a 'New York Times' op-ed, actress Angelina Jolie revealed that she underwent a double mastectomy because she carries the BRCA1 gene mutation, which increases her risk of developing breast and/or ovarian cancer.

The university announced the gift Tuesday from Kathleen Hall of Lecompton. She and her husband, Hubert Hall, both earned bachelor's degrees from Kansas in 1949.

About 4,000 graduates are expected to take part in the University of Kansas' commencement ceremony Sunday at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence.

Tuesday's open forum lasted longer than an hour and about 20 people shared their views opposing the Common Core initiative.

Albany State University Associate Professor of English Dr. Jeffery Mack was announced as one of 25 recipients of a National Endowment for the Humanities award Tuesday morning.

The Changing for Excellence initiative to increase use of multifunction printers at the University of Kansas has been named a 2013 InfoWorld Green 15 Award Winner.

Are high school age students who show aggression toward their peers more likely to consume alcohol, tobacco and marijuana? A new study of Latino adolescents in Kansas City, Mo., confirms this idea.

Five years ago, Nick Moeder and his friends counted themselves lucky. In the dark heart of the Great Recession, they were starting college rather than trying to start a career.

Possible cuts to the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita have prompted city, county and Chamber officials to write KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little to express their concerns.