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KU is proud to honor the service and commitment of our veterans and ROTC members. On this Veterans Day, meet four ROTC students who are part of the thousands-strong KU military community. Rock Chalk!
![Nate Lundgren stands in front of a Douglas County veterans memorial on KU’s Lawrence campus. Nate is wearing an Army ROTC uniform. He’s a senior majoring in mechanical engineering. A quote from Nate reads, “[Veterans’] service represents the highest level of commitment and sacrifice, and it inspires me to approach my own service with that same sense of purpose.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jqxlccmf7x2yvy4vhvwcaid3/bafkreihe5yvuavpbe4r4phsgdn2yehoxpuhc3x2ei4sn5c56tp5757xsfa@jpeg)
![Allison Scobee stands in front of the Korean War Memorial on KU’s Lawrence campus. Allison is wearing an Army ROTC uniform. She’s a senior majoring in molecular, cellular, and development biology with a minor in psychology. A quote from Allison reads, “[Women veterans] worked so hard to earn a place at the table, to prove that they were worthy of serving their country. I am so thankful to have that place already established for me.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jqxlccmf7x2yvy4vhvwcaid3/bafkreihfheaaaakynfujq7d2kgsqdfbu2sybh6jargjoejpe24wgixsogy@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
KU is proud to honor the service and commitment of our veterans and ROTC members. On this Veterans Day, meet four ROTC students who are part of the thousands-strong KU military community. Rock Chalk!
Seventeen second- and third-year KU law students have been named as Dean’s Fellows for the 2025-26 academic year. They will serve as mentors to first-year students transitioning into the KU School of Law by providing academic guidance and support. https://bit.ly/4qgnaT4
Seventeen Dean’s Fellows to mentor first-year students for 2025-2026
The Dean’s Fellows are a group of second and third-year law students selected to mentor first-year peers.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Seventeen second- and third-year KU law students have been named as Dean’s Fellows for the 2025-26 academic year. They will serve as mentors to first-year students transitioning into the KU School of Law by providing academic guidance and support. https://bit.ly/4qgnaT4
The KU School of Architecture & Design recently announced the 10 outstanding alumni who received the 2024 KU Architecture & Design Alumni Awards. The awards honor graduates whose careers exemplify leadership and innovation. https://bit.ly/4oEF949
KU School of Architecture & Design announces alumni award winners
The KU Architecture & Design Alumni Awards celebrate the wide-ranging influence Jayhawk design leaders have in Kansas and throughout the world. They represent achievement in disciplines from architect...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The KU School of Architecture & Design recently announced the 10 outstanding alumni who received the 2024 KU Architecture & Design Alumni Awards. The awards honor graduates whose careers exemplify leadership and innovation. https://bit.ly/4oEF949
The KU School of Law ranked No. 5 in the nation on the National Jurist magazine's 2025 list of Best Value Law Schools, earning an A+ grade for its combination of affordability, strong employment outcomes, and high bar passage rates. https://bit.ly/4hnRG9L
KU Law ranks No. 5 in nation for best value law schools
Rankings are based on affordability, strong employment outcomes and high bar passage rates.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The KU School of Law ranked No. 5 in the nation on the National Jurist magazine's 2025 list of Best Value Law Schools, earning an A+ grade for its combination of affordability, strong employment outcomes, and high bar passage rates. https://bit.ly/4hnRG9L
We want to see photos of alumni, faculty, staff, students, and other members of the KU community creating in their day-to-day lives. ✨ Submit your photos through this link, and you might get an exclusive Towering Toward the Blue pin.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
We want to see photos of alumni, faculty, staff, students, and other members of the KU community creating in their day-to-day lives. ✨ Submit your photos through this link, and you might get an exclusive Towering Toward the Blue pin.
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Researchers at KU recently created the Kansas Energy Transition Atlas, an interactive website that explains how regulations of wind facilities vary in Kansas by county and what factors appear to explain the variations. https://bit.ly/3Li2Oc6
Study documents wind regulations across all Kansas counties, can help guide energy policies nationwide
Researchers at the University of Kansas have published a study based on the Kansas Energy Transition Atlas. The site documents wind energy regulations across all 105 of the state's counties, and findi...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Researchers at KU recently created the Kansas Energy Transition Atlas, an interactive website that explains how regulations of wind facilities vary in Kansas by county and what factors appear to explain the variations. https://bit.ly/3Li2Oc6
A new grant will allow KU’s Audio-Reader Network to expand arts accessibility for blind and visually impaired people through an increased collaboration between arts professionals and members of the disability community across Kansas and western Missouri. https://bit.ly/3X38wBd
New Audio-Reader grant aims to expand regional arts accessibility
The Arts Accessibility Forum, funded through a grant from the Kansas Arts Commission, aims to bring together arts professionals with members of the disability community to discuss methods of increasin...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A new grant will allow KU’s Audio-Reader Network to expand arts accessibility for blind and visually impaired people through an increased collaboration between arts professionals and members of the disability community across Kansas and western Missouri. https://bit.ly/3X38wBd
A new KU-led clinical trial shows an AI-powered wearable device, the Felix NeuroAI™ wristband, is a noninvasive drug alternative that improves quality of life for people with essential tremor, the most common movement disorder in the world. https://bit.ly/3JE925B
Study shows AI-powered wristband improves daily function for people with essential tremor
Results published in JAMA Neurology from KU-led clinical trial show improvements in daily living and quality of life
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November 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A new KU-led clinical trial shows an AI-powered wearable device, the Felix NeuroAI™ wristband, is a noninvasive drug alternative that improves quality of life for people with essential tremor, the most common movement disorder in the world. https://bit.ly/3JE925B
KU has endorsed four Jayhawks for the prestigious Rhodes and Marshall scholarship programs, which provide for study in the United Kingdom. They are three alumnae, Allison Bell, Irene Caracioni, and Rita Pham, and a current senior, Maizie Ferguson. https://bit.ly/3Jktubu
Four Jayhawks will compete for Rhodes and Marshall scholarships
KU has endorsed 3 alumnae and one senior to compete for prestigious fellowships for study in the United Kingdom.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
KU has endorsed four Jayhawks for the prestigious Rhodes and Marshall scholarship programs, which provide for study in the United Kingdom. They are three alumnae, Allison Bell, Irene Caracioni, and Rita Pham, and a current senior, Maizie Ferguson. https://bit.ly/3Jktubu
KU has received a $1.5 million U.S. Office of Indian Education grant for a project with Haskell Indian Nations University to train 15 elementary and middle/secondary education teachers who will go on to teach at Native-serving schools. https://bit.ly/4n0Za3B
KU awarded $1.5M teacher professional development grant from US Office of Indian Education
The University of Kansas Indigenous Studies Program, Office of Sovereign Partnerships & Indigenous Initiatives and School of Education & Human Sciences have partnered with Haskell Indian Nations Unive...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
KU has received a $1.5 million U.S. Office of Indian Education grant for a project with Haskell Indian Nations University to train 15 elementary and middle/secondary education teachers who will go on to teach at Native-serving schools. https://bit.ly/4n0Za3B
The KU Center on Disabilities, part of KU’s Life Span Institute, has been chosen for a three-year, $750,000 federal grant to test, explore, and develop practices that include individuals with disabilities on research teams for their lived experience. https://bit.ly/3VZOZRW
Improving disability research through inclusion
KU lands grant to include individuals with disabilities in disability research, create new careers.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The KU Center on Disabilities, part of KU’s Life Span Institute, has been chosen for a three-year, $750,000 federal grant to test, explore, and develop practices that include individuals with disabilities on research teams for their lived experience. https://bit.ly/3VZOZRW
The KU School of Architecture & Design recently announced the 10 outstanding alumni who received the 2024 KU Architecture & Design Alumni Awards. The awards honor graduates whose careers exemplify leadership and innovation. https://bit.ly/46ZPtwf
KU School of Architecture & Design announces alumni award winners
The KU Architecture & Design Alumni Awards celebrate the wide-ranging influence Jayhawk design leaders have in Kansas and throughout the world. They represent achievement in disciplines from architect...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The KU School of Architecture & Design recently announced the 10 outstanding alumni who received the 2024 KU Architecture & Design Alumni Awards. The awards honor graduates whose careers exemplify leadership and innovation. https://bit.ly/46ZPtwf
During a recent ceremony at the KU School of Nursing, 120 new members of the class of 2027 from the Kansas City campus professed their dedication to the nursing profession and heard from three alumni award winners who took part in a panel discussion. https://bit.ly/4ocGCP0
KU School of Nursing students hear advice from alumni award winners and take oath of dedication
In a ceremony combined for the first time with alumni awards, new KU School of Nursing students take their professional oath.
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October 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
During a recent ceremony at the KU School of Nursing, 120 new members of the class of 2027 from the Kansas City campus professed their dedication to the nursing profession and heard from three alumni award winners who took part in a panel discussion. https://bit.ly/4ocGCP0
The KU School of Engineering’s Department of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering will host the 57th annual Geotechnical Engineering Conference on Nov. 6. At the gathering, experts will explore the latest developments in the field. https://bit.ly/4o7bOPW
KU CEAE department hosts 57th annual Geotechnical Engineering Conference
On Nov. 6, the University of Kansas Department of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering within the School of Engineering will host experts in the field of geotechnical engineering for the 5...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The KU School of Engineering’s Department of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering will host the 57th annual Geotechnical Engineering Conference on Nov. 6. At the gathering, experts will explore the latest developments in the field. https://bit.ly/4o7bOPW
Congratulations to all our 2025 University Teaching Awards recipients! 👏 Thank you for all you do to prepare the next generation of Jayhawks to lend their strengths in service of a better tomorrow.
October 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Congratulations to all our 2025 University Teaching Awards recipients! 👏 Thank you for all you do to prepare the next generation of Jayhawks to lend their strengths in service of a better tomorrow.
Levi Van Ryder, a KU doctoral student; Nick Caterine, a fall 2024 graduate; and Julia Cummings, a spring 2025 graduate, have been selected for Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards, which provide funding to study, conduct research, or teach English abroad. https://bit.ly/4myDnQG
Three KU students, alumni receive Fulbright awards
Three Jayhawks have been recognized by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program for 2025-2026, earning opportunities to teach, study or conduct research abroad. Awardees include Nick Caterine in Spain and L...
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October 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Levi Van Ryder, a KU doctoral student; Nick Caterine, a fall 2024 graduate; and Julia Cummings, a spring 2025 graduate, have been selected for Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards, which provide funding to study, conduct research, or teach English abroad. https://bit.ly/4myDnQG
Fall foliage on Mount Oread leaves us in awe. 🍂
October 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Fall foliage on Mount Oread leaves us in awe. 🍂
The Institute for Research on Innovation & Science reports that from 2011 to 2023, over 7,000 KU research-funded employees used their experience to build careers in all 50 states and the District of Columbia — and nearly 40% found employment in Kansas. https://bit.ly/3W0r4Sb
KU research-trained employees fuel economy, meet critical workforce demands in Kansas and beyond, report shows
A recent report from the Institute for Research on Innovation & Science shows more than 7,000 KU research-funded employees leveraged their experience to build careers in all 50 states and the District...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The Institute for Research on Innovation & Science reports that from 2011 to 2023, over 7,000 KU research-funded employees used their experience to build careers in all 50 states and the District of Columbia — and nearly 40% found employment in Kansas. https://bit.ly/3W0r4Sb
Seven KU men’s and women’s basketball players will serve as brand ambassadors and engage in a fundraising campaign for cancer research at the KU Cancer Center as part of a name, image, and likeness agreement with ShotTracker and the V Foundation. https://bit.ly/473LxL9
KU Cancer Center to receive research support from agreement leveraging KU basketball, ShotTracker and the V Foundation
Seven KU men’s and women’s basketball players will serve as brand ambassadors and engage in a fundraising campaign to fight cancer.
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October 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Seven KU men’s and women’s basketball players will serve as brand ambassadors and engage in a fundraising campaign for cancer research at the KU Cancer Center as part of a name, image, and likeness agreement with ShotTracker and the V Foundation. https://bit.ly/473LxL9
Thanks to a new collaboration between KU and McPherson College, students in central Kansas will be able to earn a nursing bachelor’s degree at McPherson from the KU School of Nursing without relocating nearly 190 miles northeast to Kansas City. https://bit.ly/3Vxe9Hi
KU School of Nursing partners with McPherson College to increase nursing graduates in central Kansas
New collaboration will allow McPherson College students to earn a bachelor’s degree from KU School of Nursing without relocating to Kansas City.
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October 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Thanks to a new collaboration between KU and McPherson College, students in central Kansas will be able to earn a nursing bachelor’s degree at McPherson from the KU School of Nursing without relocating nearly 190 miles northeast to Kansas City. https://bit.ly/3Vxe9Hi
Creativity, brilliance, and determination converge at KU as we chart a path toward a better future. Are you ready to join us? 🔴🔵 Apply by Monday, Dec. 1, to be considered for scholarships. https://bit.ly/3KITZI6
October 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Creativity, brilliance, and determination converge at KU as we chart a path toward a better future. Are you ready to join us? 🔴🔵 Apply by Monday, Dec. 1, to be considered for scholarships. https://bit.ly/3KITZI6
Building our future from the ground up. 🏗️ Prolific architect Bjarke Ingels recently spoke to ArcD students about the plans for KU’s new center for design education. The building will offer Jayhawks a world-class academic research facility where they can learn, collaborate, and create. Rock Chalk!
October 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Building our future from the ground up. 🏗️ Prolific architect Bjarke Ingels recently spoke to ArcD students about the plans for KU’s new center for design education. The building will offer Jayhawks a world-class academic research facility where they can learn, collaborate, and create. Rock Chalk!
Thanks to Elyce Arons, former KU student and co-founder of the Kate Spade and Frances Valentine brands, for sharing her style smarts and business savvy with the KU community last week. Jayhawk creations make the world better, brighter, and more fashionable. 👜 Rock Chalk!
October 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Thanks to Elyce Arons, former KU student and co-founder of the Kate Spade and Frances Valentine brands, for sharing her style smarts and business savvy with the KU community last week. Jayhawk creations make the world better, brighter, and more fashionable. 👜 Rock Chalk!
Marvin Grove Monday 🍂
September 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Marvin Grove Monday 🍂
Come celebrate all things Kansas and the mighty community of Jayhawks who serve Kansas every day. https://rockcha.lk/statefair
September 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Come celebrate all things Kansas and the mighty community of Jayhawks who serve Kansas every day. https://rockcha.lk/statefair