TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas is moving forward with a plan to establish a dental school despite a key legislative committee's recent denial of funding for the project.

Chancellor Douglas Girod announced Wednesday that the university will continue preliminary planning work on the creation of a dental school at the Medical Center campus in Kansas City, Kansas, the Lawrence Journal-World reported .

The Kansas Board of Regents voted in June to authorize $2.5 million for architectural plans for converting the campus' old Dykes Library into a dental school, which would cost an estima...