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New turnpike signs boast of KU’s 2008 accomplishments
Orange Bowl, basketball championship, academic research all mentioned
By Mark Vierthaler
July 2, 2008
Between bouts of rain and trips to the trucks to avoid lightning, Kansas Turnpike Authority workers Wednesday raised a new exit sign to three I-beams along Interstate 70 east of Lawrence.
Chabon, Walls among series’ speakers
J-W Staff Reports
July 2, 2008
Kansas University announced the 2008-2009 schedule for the Hall Center for the Humanities Lecture Series.
Study of honeybee navigation may bring engineering advances
By Alexander Parker
July 2, 2008
Bees. They can be a nuisance, hovering around picnics and menacing pets and children. But researchers at Kansas University think they might be the key to harnessing new types of engineering technology. Rudolf Jander, professor of animal behavior, and two students, Jason Palikij and Daniel Najera, are studying how European honeybees find their way back to their hives when disoriented.
Part of Jayhawk Blvd. to be closed Wednesday
By Mark Vierthaler
July 1, 2008
An eastbound section of Jayhawk Boulevard near Wescoe Hall will be closed from 2 to 10 p.m Tuesday, Kansas University officials announced Tuesday.
LMH wins community award
J-W Staff Report
July 1, 2008
Lawrence Memorial Hospital and Kansas University Hospital in Kansas City, Kan., receive Community Connection Awards from Kansas Hospital Association.
Court denies hearing on immigration tuition law
By Scott Rothschild
June 30, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a lawsuit that challenges a Kansas law that allows some illegal immigrants to pay lower in-state tuition for higher education.
Kenyan kinship: Lawrence resident makes connections during African trip
By Shanxi Upsdell
June 30, 2008
Until two years ago, Kenya ranked about as high on my to-see list as Antarctica — it was possible, but I didn’t know why I’d go there. I had no connection to Africa. That’s unusual, considering my journeys through Europe, Australia and Asia along my way to U.S. citizenship. Africa, however, remained a foreign place until my junior year at Kansas University, setting the framework for my first adventure as a KU alumna.
Deaf cheerleaders bring new beat to KU camp
By Erin Castaneda
June 29, 2008
Through the vibrations of a drum, six cheerleaders from the Kansas School for the Deaf commanded people’s attention at Kansas University’s Spirit Camp. “We can do everything except hear,” said Marie Qualls, 21, the head coach of the KSD team. Qualls, a 2005 graduate from the state school, decided to bring her team to KU’s camp for the first time this year.
Some offices to move for a time
Lawrence Paper Co. will be temporary home during renovations
By Mark Fagan
June 28, 2008
Some athletics officials from Kansas University soon will be moving their offices to a building owned by the folks who make Jayhawk Boxes. Kansas Athletics Inc., which runs athletics programs at KU, has leased 11,000 square feet of space in an office building owned by Lawrence Paper Co. in northwest Lawrence.
KU students to debut ‘Off the Wall’ comedy pilot
By Jon Niccum
June 27, 2008
There’s no shortage of comedic movies and TV shows aimed at the college crowd. But according to Scott Winer, only a handful are actually created by college students. Winer and a troupe primarily composed of Kansas University students have responded with the independent sketch comedy show “Mildly Off the Wall.”
Human testing of cancer drug to start
By Mark Vierthaler
June 27, 2008
When Deatta Lackey stared into the mirror after she began losing her hair — a result of her body responding to the chemotherapy battling her ovarian cancer — she wondered how her husband, Mike, would ever find her attractive. “I remember my ears, sticking out of my head,” she said.
Natural History Museum camp lets kids have a blast
By Lindsey Slater
June 26, 2008
Three. Two. One. Blast off. They may not be working for NASA, but about 20 children at Kansas University’s Natural History Museum’s summer camp got a chance to launch a rocket Wednesday. The rockets were made of 20-ounce soda bottles and filled with water and air from a bicycle pump.
Lied Center promotes upcoming performers by offering free iTunes
By Mark Fagan
June 25, 2008
Area residents don’t need to wait for prominent artists such as Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass to show up in Lawrence to hear their distinctive styles. Just grab a free iTunes card, download the songs and start the music — an innovative introduction to the Lied Center’s upcoming season, courtesy of the center, Apple and the artists themselves.
Students investigate fake crimes at KU’s Natural History Museum
By Lindsey Slater
June 23, 2008
A crime has taken place in Dyche Hall on Kansas University’s campus. Okay, not really, but some summer campers put their newly learned forensic skills to the test to solve the case of the missing Madagascar hissing cockroach.
Following his own path: Jamaican pianist, pilot named KU choir director
By Terry Rombeck
June 23, 2008
There were times, when Paul Tucker was at the control of jets thousands of feet above the earth, that his mind would wander to music. “I’d be at 23,000 feet in cruise in a (Cessna) Citation or a Lear, thinking about music,” Tucker says. “I was planning musical things.” Sometimes, life’s journey takes you on some detours. And sometimes those journeys are thousands of feet above ground.
6News video: Treasure all in the hunt
By Christine Metz
June 22, 2008
It might not come with the excitement of an Indiana Jones movie, but the thrills of possible finds on an archaeology dig have KU students and Lawrence residents venturing to north central Kansas this summer. 6News reporter Christine Metz has more.
Submit your KU photos
June 21, 2008
Jayhawk alumni are invited again to be a part of the 2008 KU Edition. We’re looking for photos you’ve kept from your days at Kansas University.
KU to analyze Republic County dig’s finds
Artifacts uncovered decades ago will be among those studied
By Christine Metz
June 20, 2008
Kansas University has a $41,000 contract to study the remains from this year's dig.
Thrill of the dig
Archaeology can be tedious, but finds bring moments of excitement
By Christine Metz
June 20, 2008
For those who still have the big screen notion that archaeology digs come with treasure-hunting, fist-fighting, grave-robbing adventure, all you have to do is observe the amount of excitement generated from the discovery of a tiny gun hammer to know that while the dig comes with thrills, it is rarely of the Indiana Jones variety. The hook for the volunteers, professors and students who gathered in Republic County earlier this month are those instances when an artifact, however small, is plucked out among the dirt giving a new window into the lives of people who stood on the same spot generations ago.
Collins tests stalled at KBI
By Mike Belt
02:37 p.m., June 18, 2008 Updated 12:00 a.m.
Though the KU Public Safety Office sent the Kansas Bureau of Investigation evidence in October 2007, a backlog of other projects has prevented the agency from testing the evidence from the Sherron Collins case.
KU alumnus named AP business editor
June 17, 2008
Hal Ritter, a founding editor of USA Today who helped launch the newspaper’s Money section, on Monday was named business editor of The Associated Press, responsible for global coverage of financial news.
Another radio-frequency ID tag going to market
By Mark Fagan
June 17, 2008
Technology behind another radio-frequency identification tag developed at Kansas University is headed to market. KU’s Agility tag, developed through the university’s Information and Telecommunication Technology Center, is being licensed for manufacturing through Starport Technologies LLC, based in Kansas City, Mo.
6News video: KU fraternity set to expand
June 15, 2008
Groundbreaking will start Monday on an expansion project for a KU fraternity.
KU announces IIYM summer academy
J-W Staff Reports
June 15, 2008
Kansas University’s School of Fine Arts welcomes the International Institute for Young Musicians (IIYM) Summer Music Academy to Lawrence for another year of student music study and competition.
KU Jazz Ensemble to play in Switzerland
J-W Staff Reports
June 15, 2008
Kansas University’s Jazz Ensemble I has been honored with an invitation to the 42nd Annual Montreux Jazz Festival next month in Switzerland. The invitation to this festival is presented to only a few collegiate jazz ensembles in the world annually.
KU can rent out space and not pay property tax
By Scott Rothschild
June 14, 2008
Kansas University will be able to rent out lab space to a for-profit company and still avoid paying property taxes. The property tax exemption comes courtesy of a new state law and action by the Kansas Board of Regents.
Flexibility sought in NCLB demands
By George Diepenbrock
June 14, 2008
Kansas educators asked for more flexibility to operate under the federal No Child Left Behind law during a conference Friday at Kansas University. “It is my opinion at this point in my career that the federal government’s role is that of aspiration rather than punitive and prescriptive,” said Andy Tompkins, a former Kansas education commissioner and current dean of education at Pittsburg State University.
6News video: Kansas educators discuss ‘No Child Left Behind’
June 13, 2008
Kansas educators get their chance to sound off today about the federal law that currently drives education.
KU offers aid to students after storm
J-W Staff Reports
June 13, 2008
In the wake of tornadoes that killed two in the towns of Chapman and Soldier, and damaged buildings in Manhattan, Kansas University is offering to help students from the affected areas.
6News video: Tuition costs to go up
June 12, 2008
The Kansas Board of Regents approved tuition increases for the state's six universities.

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