Kansas to award master's degree to student who died in class
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May 19, 2019
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas plans to award a posthumous master's degree to a 30-year-old student who died in class.
Mahmoud Samak, a graduate student from Cairo, will receive the award from the university's Religious Studies Department.
Campus police Deputy Chief James Anguiano said Samak died in a class on Monday after he suffered a cardiac arrest. Anguiano said police found no evidence of foul play.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports the Religious Studies Department will hold a memorial for Samak Monday afternoon at the Memorial Union.
Samak was in the second year of his g...
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