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University of Kansas student continues school post-paralysis
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — It's lunchtime at the fraternity house. Guys with backpacks, crew socks and crew cuts greet the house mom, fill cups with blue Powerade, eat ham and cheese subs and mostly ignore the salad bar. A blond-haired, green-eyed member...
Engineering initiative boosts enrollment, graduates at KU
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Sam Viron knew coming out of high school that she wanted to major in engineering, and had her heart set on leaving Kansas to do it. But when she visited the University of Kansas, just a few weeks before she had to pick a s...
Engineering initiative boosts enrollment, graduates at KU
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Sam Viron knew coming out of high school that she wanted to major in engineering, and had her heart set on leaving Kansas to do it. But when she visited the University of Kansas, just a few weeks before she had to pick a s...
University of Kansas center to foster modern geology study
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The outside of the new building going up on the University of Kansas campus will yield clues about what field of study is happening inside. Large boulders will be planted throughout the landscaping. Native Kansas limestone, q...
Retiring KU professor invented widely used drugs for HIV
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — There's a high chance you know someone whose life has been saved, extended or improved by a drug invented by University of Kansas professor Valentino "Val" Stella. Stella himself does: A KU colleague and the father of another b...
KU professor's research proves some science textbooks wrong
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — For decades biology textbooks have gotten fern reproduction all wrong — at least the part accusing the ancient plants of inbreeding. Ferns have not survived millions of years by sperm and egg from the same plantlet con...
University of Kansas Endowment marks 125 years
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University needs money — always has needed it — always will. Legislative appropriations have never been sufficient to meet those needs — never will be. There are private funds available to supplement but not supplan...
University of Kansas sees energy conservation savings
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — At home, you might swap out a few lightbulbs for energy efficient ones and save a few cents a year on your electric bill. At the University of Kansas that's happening on a much larger scale: Over the past year and a half KU h...
