Mon, 04/29/2024
Belinda Sturm will be the final candidate for the vice chancellor for research position to share her vision and strategies for the future of research and discovery at KU. Her public presentation will take place at 2:30 May 1 in the 1502 Building Auditorium. The event will also be livestreamed
Mon, 04/29/2024
New research from the University of Kansas has found an intervention based on the science of reading and math effectively helped English language learners boost their comprehension, visualize and synthesize information, and make connections that significantly improved their math performance.
Fri, 04/26/2024
The University Career Center has announced the 2023-2024 Student Employee of the Year (SEOTY) as Daphne Tibbetts, who works for the Department of English in the History of Black Writing (HBW) research center.
Thu, 04/25/2024
Taylor Roth began working at KU’s Center for Public Partnerships & Research in August 2023, freshly off a postdoctoral position focused on translating research to policymakers. Colleagues describe Roth as passionate about supporting families of children with disabilities and having taken a keen interest in policy.
Thu, 04/25/2024
Research from the University of Kansas shows for the first time SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, can be inhibited from replicating in living cell cultures using a compound that targets “Mac-1,” a protein key to defending SARS-CoV-2 against the human immune response.
Wed, 04/24/2024
The third candidate for the University of Kansas’ vice chancellor for research position has withdrawn from the search process due to personal reasons.
Wed, 04/24/2024
Links – both real and imagined – between race and disease are far older than the COVID-19 pandemic. A University of Kansas researcher says her new study of a 19th-century Cuban aqueduct project during a cholera outbreak demonstrates this.
Wed, 04/24/2024
Jennifer Raff, KU associate professor of anthropology, was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on the history of human populations through sequencing the genomes of contemporary peoples and their ancestors.
Wed, 04/24/2024
Editor's note, April 26: This event has been canceled due to expected inclement weather. The event will be moved to fall 2024, with a new date announced after Sept. 1.
Wed, 04/24/2024
Annie Chuning, Kara Hageman, Natalie Lind and Luke Parker were each honored for their exceptional research and presentations at an event that assembles the top graduate student researchers in the state of Kansas. Their work delved into topics including the effects of food insecurity on rural Kansans' health and solutions to orthopedic joint infections.