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Presentation will explore the Harlem Renaissance and KansasOctober 17, 2018
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'Unexpected Caribbean' symposium set for Oct. 18-20October 17, 2018
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How great musicians connect with audiencesOctober 15, 2018
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Senegalese filmmaker to help make KU's academic stories digitalOctober 15, 2018
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Low-cost, all-digital Spanish-learning program is bornOctober 9, 2018
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Artist brings ephemeral 'Red Dirt Rug' installation to KUOctober 5, 2018
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KU international centers awarded $6.3M in grantsOctober 4, 2018
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'A Man of No Importance': Hopeful, holy and hauntedSeptember 20, 2018
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Digital scholarship rescues ethnographic cookbook from oblivionSeptember 18, 2018
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Anxiety surrounding mass shootings does briefly close ideological dividesSeptember 18, 2018
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Second candidate for vice chancellor for research to present TuesdaySeptember 14, 2018
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Scholar to speak on African-American and Latinx history in the USSeptember 13, 2018
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Astronomers probe 'outstanding mystery' of how galaxies stop building starsSeptember 12, 2018
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First candidate for vice chancellor for research to present FridaySeptember 12, 2018
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Kevin Willmott's 'Becoming Martin' depicts a leader’s early strugglesSeptember 11, 2018
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Introducing 'Souls of Black Folk' to a new generationSeptember 11, 2018
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Film prof says Reynolds did it all, from comedy to dramaSeptember 7, 2018
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Shining light on dark fiber, other broadband networksSeptember 5, 2018
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Gun owners are more politically active, study findsSeptember 2, 2018
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Two art commissions enliven Marvin Grove on KU’s Lawrence campusAugust 29, 2018
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Grant to help document Topeka's role in founding PentecostalismAugust 21, 2018
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Artists turn to film to express empathyAugust 15, 2018
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Interactive art hike to feature colorful, artificial stonesAugust 13, 2018
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Making Albania’s leading writer accessible in EnglishAugust 1, 2018
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76 undergraduate students to present summer researchJuly 25, 2018
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Uncovering the secret history of women in HollywoodJuly 10, 2018
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Poor parents in South America must cross digital divideJune 26, 2018
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English professor joins Playwrights’ Center familyJune 5, 2018
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Expert: NFL knuckles under to Trump on kneelingMay 23, 2018
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Black to the future: From page to stageMay 22, 2018
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Model T killed Kansas German dialectsMay 14, 2018
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Katie Batza receives humanities research fellowshipMay 10, 2018
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Laird Essay Contest winner explores Russia-China relationsApril 27, 2018
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'BlacKkKlansman' taking Willmott from Kansas to CannesApril 24, 2018
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‘The Tree’ poses tough questions about agingApril 11, 2018
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Film recasts crusading journalist in modern contextApril 4, 2018
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Global Scholars to present researchApril 2, 2018
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Study reveals number of hours it takes to make a friendMarch 28, 2018
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Book documents challenges of undefined gender in 1700s SpainMarch 26, 2018
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‘Big Botany’ brings art to bear on climate-change debateMarch 21, 2018
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Scholars help solve a century-old mysteryMarch 15, 2018
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New work extends the jazz-flamenco connectionMarch 14, 2018
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Recalling the radical Zionist vision of Martin BuberFebruary 28, 2018
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Graduate students will showcase research at 15th annual Capitol eventFebruary 15, 2018
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Study dispels notion that social media displaces human contactFebruary 13, 2018
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'Grotesque Realism' in Russian literature reflected social turmoilFebruary 6, 2018
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The Commons announces Red Hot Research dates for spring 2018February 6, 2018
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Echoes of 1613 are felt, even todayFebruary 6, 2018
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Gasoline price spikes don't drive commuters to trains, study findsJanuary 30, 2018
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Study looks at 'abortion regret' tactic in some states' legislationJanuary 22, 2018
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Trump reaches new low, communication expert saysJanuary 17, 2018
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Scholar urges Trump to study Haiti’s historyJanuary 12, 2018
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Study teases out preference for positive newsDecember 19, 2017
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Uber reduces ambulance usage in major cities, economists findDecember 13, 2017
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KU geologists report new discoveries about Kansas, Oklahoma earthquakesDecember 13, 2017
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Punk goes to the movies: The Troma Entertainment StoryDecember 12, 2017
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Researchers recommend ways to cultivate compassion into urban planningDecember 12, 2017
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People say they want to live longer — if in good healthDecember 11, 2017
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A revolution in crosslinguistic researchDecember 4, 2017
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African art exhibit designed to comment on Spencer’s founding collectionNovember 28, 2017
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Experts can comment on Haiti, US immigration policyNovember 21, 2017
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Author coins term 'Adapturgy' for burgeoning fieldNovember 15, 2017
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Colloquium panelists will discuss 'Caribbean Representations'November 9, 2017
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Book tackles conceptual issues in photography in a global eraNovember 7, 2017
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Book to place history of Kansas Jews in regional contextNovember 6, 2017
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Book to place history of Kansas Jews in regional contextNovember 6, 2017
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How the American culture of war influences our democracyOctober 31, 2017
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KU announces 10 graduate research consultants for fall 2017October 25, 2017
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Researcher using digital humanities to explore poetry in new waysOctober 17, 2017
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Book details rise of Kenya’s educational ‘army of development’October 10, 2017
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New book urges humans to hear the call of placeOctober 9, 2017
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KU geologists help spearhead development of appOctober 9, 2017
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A creative critical response to absence of women in classicsOctober 2, 2017
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Annual fall tour of KU medicinal garden set for Sept. 30September 27, 2017
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Translating Russia’s first gay celebrity a challenge, researcher saysSeptember 20, 2017
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13 students receive Undergraduate Research AwardsSeptember 19, 2017
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Scholarly social-media controversies have 20th-century antecedentSeptember 13, 2017
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New study links exercise to better self-controlSeptember 5, 2017
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Study shows potential unintended effects of charter school movementSeptember 5, 2017
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Researchers, symposium to explore themes of 'black love'August 14, 2017
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Study shows language development starts in the wombJuly 18, 2017
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Modern trickster figure serves to 'decolonize knowledge'June 27, 2017
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Unearthing T. rex in Montana continues this summerJune 2, 2017
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Actresses staged femininity in early modern SpainJune 1, 2017
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KU disability researchers edit special journal issueMay 25, 2017
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Professor establishes research fund for women in STEMApril 19, 2017
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'Make it Funky VI' will focus on roots, legacy of PrinceApril 10, 2017
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Cities can do much more with big data, study findsMarch 31, 2017
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'Playing God' examines the Bible on BroadwayMarch 8, 2017
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Entomology team returns to conduct research in SurinameMarch 6, 2017
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New religious movements often test boundaries of the First AmendmentFebruary 28, 2017
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Graduate students will present research at CapitolFebruary 28, 2017
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Art historian does 'detective' work on Japanese Buddhist imageryFebruary 21, 2017
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Fifty years later, teachers will study ‘long, hot summer’ riotsFebruary 20, 2017
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51 KU students receive Undergraduate Research Awards for spring 2017February 17, 2017
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Study upsets beliefs about feelings and exercise probabilityFebruary 13, 2017
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Kansas, Oklahoma students honored for research in biosciencesFebruary 7, 2017
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Grant to expand professor's work commemorating civil-rights martyrJanuary 17, 2017
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New book explores Echinacea, a medical plant with roots in KansasDecember 14, 2016
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China's 'missing girls' theory likely far overblown, study showsNovember 29, 2016
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Book finds link between modernist literature, birth control movementNovember 16, 2016
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Garden City offers lessons on educating diverse populations, study saysNovember 15, 2016
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Study: Government mass killings intensify domestic terrorismNovember 9, 2016
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New program gives students an early start doing researchNovember 9, 2016
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Book explores origin of racial divide in early colonial SpainNovember 8, 2016
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Inaugural inventor prize recognizes KU researcherNovember 2, 2016
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Researchers land CDC grant to analyze state child neglect policiesOctober 19, 2016
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KU researcher points finger at inaccuracy in most biology textbooksOctober 11, 2016
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KU institute publishes 50th edition of Kansas Statistical AbstractSeptember 6, 2016
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New research shows how songbirds island-hopped out of AustraliaAugust 30, 2016
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KU announces Undergraduate Research Award recipientsAugust 23, 2016
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Research-based online tool empowers Peace Corps work in AfricaAugust 19, 2016
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72 undergraduates present summer researchAugust 17, 2016
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New map details threat of Zika across Europe, U.S.August 10, 2016
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KU announces 2016-17 class of senior administrative fellowsAugust 4, 2016
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NEH grant to study Soviet defection, migration issuesJuly 27, 2016
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Types of fathers in literature: Good, bad and substituteJune 13, 2016
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Untold stories of women, secrecy and HIV in NigeriaMay 19, 2016
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Humanities professors receive NEH fundingMay 6, 2016
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Hell's kitchen: Food's place in the Buddhist afterlifeApril 22, 2016
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Five innovative ways to teach gerontologyMarch 28, 2016
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Global Scholars to present at symposiumMarch 24, 2016
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Seven facts you may not know about BrazilMarch 24, 2016
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Professor will present 'Human Trafficking in the Heartland'March 11, 2016
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Hall Center to host 14th annual Celebration of BooksMarch 7, 2016
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Book argues for gender parity in addressing climate changeFebruary 26, 2016
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Study finds our desire for 'like-minded others' is hard-wiredFebruary 23, 2016
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Throwaway culture can include friendships, researcher saysFebruary 22, 2016
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Student's research on child language earns grantFebruary 19, 2016
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Distinguished professor to dissect, explore concepts of solidarityFebruary 15, 2016
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Students to present research at CapitolFebruary 12, 2016
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App allows users to retrace pivotal moment in civil rights historyFebruary 11, 2016
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Democracy doesn't necessarily predict terrorist attacks, study findsFebruary 11, 2016
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Center for Teaching Excellence leads $2.5 million NSF grantFebruary 10, 2016
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Project explores written works of Kansas athletesFebruary 8, 2016
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11 graduate research consultants will work with spring classesFebruary 4, 2016
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New book on flamenco debunks myths, fills in historical gapsFebruary 1, 2016
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U.S. migrants returning to Mexico face challenges, strain the systemJanuary 20, 2016
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Jordanian election law changes led to wasted votes, professor saysJanuary 19, 2016
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Neighbors would rather talk over the fence than online, study findsJanuary 19, 2016
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The Commons awards Starter GrantsJanuary 13, 2016
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Professor's sci-fi stories translated for international audienceDecember 10, 2015
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Catalog brings later work of artist Albert Bloch into public viewDecember 9, 2015
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Distinguished professor to discuss peopling of the Great PlainsDecember 1, 2015
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New species of early anthropoid primate found amid Libyan strifeNovember 23, 2015
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New book features interviews with film legendsNovember 12, 2015
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Dark matter research earns doctoral student a fellowship at FermilabNovember 11, 2015
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Project Diane examines gender integration of Army Special ForcesNovember 10, 2015
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Rewriting of Latin poet Catullus now available in ItalianOctober 28, 2015
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New book 'On the Wing' tracks evolution of flight in natural worldOctober 21, 2015
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Polish novels reflect generation stunted by political upheavalOctober 15, 2015
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Inequality, Islamophobia remain in wake of Charlie Hebdo tragedyOctober 14, 2015
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Free app empowers public to locate, recognize ancient fossilsOctober 14, 2015
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KU announces 12 Graduate Research Consultants for fall semesterSeptember 25, 2015
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W.E.B Du Bois's long legacy clearly, concisely covered in new bookSeptember 15, 2015
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15 students receive Undergraduate Research Awards for fallSeptember 10, 2015
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Professor first to document Tunisia's postcolonial monumental artworkSeptember 10, 2015
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Hurricane Katrina's social effects linger, KU professor saysAugust 27, 2015
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KU expert can discuss European migration issuesAugust 27, 2015
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Polygamy, alcohol linked to physical abuse in African marriagesAugust 27, 2015
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American women use book club memberships in dating fieldAugust 24, 2015
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Demand for coffee can create rift with poorer nationsAugust 24, 2015
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Skin color major factor for male immigrants seeking employmentAugust 24, 2015
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Eighty-four undergraduates present summer researchAugust 13, 2015
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Holocaust researcher details lives of female Nazi guardsJune 17, 2015
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Dissertations awarded Argersinger PrizesMay 13, 2015
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NIH grant supports research education programMay 12, 2015
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New book shows 'There's a Stat for That'April 28, 2015
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Humanities professors win book publication awardsApril 27, 2015
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Digital edition of anti-slavery play links it to 1700s operaApril 24, 2015
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Book explores work of Albert BlochApril 23, 2015
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Hall Center to host 13th annual Celebration of BooksMarch 23, 2015
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'Iron Chef' of 1600s Japan took place in a brothelMarch 13, 2015
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Award winner to develop app about murder of Emmett TillFebruary 26, 2015
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Project explores black writers with Kansas connectionsFebruary 23, 2015
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Hall Center announces 2015-2016 research and creative work fellowsFebruary 18, 2015
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Senior Ryan Limbocker named a Gates Cambridge ScholarFebruary 12, 2015
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Research defines more behaviors that reveal romantic attractionFebruary 12, 2015
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School of the Arts award interdisciplinary research grantsFebruary 10, 2015
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Students will present work during research days at the CapitolFebruary 9, 2015
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20 KU sophomores selected as University ScholarsJanuary 27, 2015
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Professor's book explores future of alternative agricultureJanuary 26, 2015
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Geologists solve mystery of Tibetan mountainsJanuary 21, 2015
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Students receive Undergraduate Research AwardsJanuary 14, 2015
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Book reflects on mixed record of civil rights, labor movement leaderJanuary 13, 2015
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Book reflects on mixed record of civil rights, labor movement leaderJanuary 13, 2015
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Professors selected for Commons Awards Starter GrantsJanuary 12, 2015
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Book details issues of transgender politics, policyJanuary 9, 2015
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Research team helps WHO make sense of Ebola response effortsDecember 10, 2014
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African-Americans made greatest educational gains after 3 major warsDecember 9, 2014
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GIS Day to explore innovations in mapping technologyNovember 14, 2014
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Project seeks to discover aspects of early Jewish childhoodNovember 13, 2014
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Research reveals the real cause of death for some starbust galaxiesNovember 13, 2014
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Study: Wealth transfers to grown children perpetuate inequalityNovember 12, 2014
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Ku-led scientific team departs for Antarctic research expeditionNovember 11, 2014
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Research shows easy-to-walk communities can blunt cognitive declineNovember 7, 2014
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Fan editors are artists, not disgruntled fans, KU scholar arguesNovember 6, 2014
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Professor links slavery emancipation to other social movementsNovember 5, 2014
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Researcher studies why gender-based violence persists in NamibiaOctober 30, 2014
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Dig site identifies complete prehistoric Greek pottery workshopOctober 17, 2014
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Government grant to support work in language, literacy developmentOctober 17, 2014
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KU to explore large data applications at genomic biodiversity summitSeptember 18, 2014
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Professor examines convergence of languages, cultures in Chinese Inner AsiaSeptember 17, 2014
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Russian program receives Department of State grantSeptember 16, 2014
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Midwest groundwater experts to convene for annual conferenceSeptember 12, 2014
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Professor explores origins of 'War on Poverty,' new challengesSeptember 10, 2014
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Book explains how data analysis can aid in oil, gas explorationSeptember 9, 2014
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Researcher wins early-career awardSeptember 8, 2014
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Fourteen students receive Undergraduate Research AwardsSeptember 5, 2014
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Researcher advances a new model for a cosmological enigma - dark matterSeptember 4, 2014
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The Commons announces Red Hot Research participantsAugust 29, 2014
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Team discovers ancient migration wave from Siberia to the ArcticAugust 28, 2014
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Professor awarded NSF grant for climate governance studyAugust 28, 2014
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KU scholars call for end to "parasitic models" of publishingAugust 12, 2014
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Online Spanish program saves students $500K in textbook feesAugust 8, 2014
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Graduate researcher identifies doppelgänger frog speciesAugust 7, 2014
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Chemistry professor receives Army research grantAugust 4, 2014
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In the media: KU WWI reenactment projectJuly 11, 2014
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Flirting hard to detect, researcher saysJune 4, 2014
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Experts available to speak about Maya Angelou's lifeMay 28, 2014
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Professor offers fresh perspective on Virgin MaryMay 21, 2014
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Keywords hold vocabulary together in memoryMay 19, 2014
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Filmmaker focuses on volunteers who answer suicide hotlineApril 22, 2014
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Book details inner workings of Spanish InquisitionApril 7, 2014
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Second panel planned to discuss Ukraine, CrimeaApril 7, 2014
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Professor among few who study art of North KoreaApril 2, 2014
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Books examine social order among working-class communitiesMarch 31, 2014
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Event to highlight KU postdoc researchers, STEM careersMarch 31, 2014
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Professor examines foreign policy through Russia's lensMarch 31, 2014
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Student Global Scholars to present researchMarch 28, 2014
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Students invited to showcase research at Innovation FairMarch 26, 2014
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In the media: Deciphering ancient textsFebruary 25, 2014
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In the media: Researcher address the risk of a giant sunburstFebruary 25, 2014
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Experts available to speak about situation in VenezuelaFebruary 25, 2014
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KU dance professor to introduce flamenco to new audiencesFebruary 20, 2014
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Federal funding of KU research reaches new record in 2013February 17, 2014
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Professor studies social causes behind world's intentional communitiesFebruary 13, 2014
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Book examines 'Latino gender gap,' future of U.S. politicsFebruary 11, 2014
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Successful marriages can begin on social mediaFebruary 10, 2014
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Willmott film 'Jayhawkers' explores Chamberlain eraFebruary 6, 2014
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KU announces 50 Undergraduate Research Award winnersJanuary 28, 2014
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New partnership will drive ecological research, education in BrazilJanuary 27, 2014
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David Roediger named first Foundation ProfessorJanuary 10, 2014
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New program to bring graduate research into the classroomDecember 19, 2013
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Grant will help American Indian children with speech-language impairmentDecember 17, 2013
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Research sheds light onto the debut of insect life on EarthDecember 11, 2013
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Researcher helps to reinvent the high court of organism namesDecember 4, 2013
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Researcher explores 'culture of surveillance' in the U.S.November 25, 2013
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Delegates attend biomedical research conference for minoritiesNovember 22, 2013
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Research will shed light upon the family tree of deep-sea fishesNovember 20, 2013
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Sex of speaker affects listener language processingNovember 19, 2013
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KU to host conference on interdisciplinary aging researchNovember 6, 2013
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Reception honors students, mentors in NIH science programsNovember 5, 2013
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Researcher looks at the enduring impact of land use on an ecosystemOctober 30, 2013
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Shutdown is over, but polarizing parties live on, KU scholar saysOctober 25, 2013
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KU, Haskell students present at diversity-based science conferenceOctober 11, 2013
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Shakespearean verse: 'A 400-year-old rap'?October 3, 2013
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Collaboration helps communities plan for disaster, new research showsSeptember 24, 2013
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NSF grant to boost KU’s life sciences computing powerSeptember 18, 2013
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New book outlines five types of flirting stylesSeptember 11, 2013
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New book touts 'Latina Advantage' in congressional campaignsSeptember 6, 2013
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Researcher looks at comet as potential trigger of 'Big Freeze'September 5, 2013
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'Ventriloquist' bird discovered in PhilippinesSeptember 3, 2013
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KU announces 21 Undergraduate Research Award winnersAugust 30, 2013
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Red Hot Research sessions resume for facultyAugust 28, 2013
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In the media: Professor works to create 3D map of universeAugust 27, 2013
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In the media: Professors work to turn algae into biofuelAugust 27, 2013
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In the media: Flirting comes down to different stylesAugust 27, 2013
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KU breakthrough has implications for climate change, oilAugust 19, 2013
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Research boosts understanding of nano-carbon in photodetectorsAugust 15, 2013
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College professors win book awardsJune 19, 2013
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The Commons awards interdisciplinary research fundsJune 13, 2013
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Project will digitize, file animal soundsJune 12, 2013
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KU announces Undergraduate Research Award winnersJune 10, 2013
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Dissertations awarded Argersinger PrizesMay 15, 2013
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Students in the College win Sigma Xi competitionMay 9, 2013
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Final faculty research-sharing session set for todayApril 19, 2013
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KU Global Scholars to present researchApril 12, 2013
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KU researcher to focus on the impact of film festivalsApril 5, 2013
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Department awarded NSF undergraduate summer research fundingMarch 28, 2013
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Faculty, staff invited to research-sharing sessionMarch 13, 2013
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Researchers in the College win KU 'Leading Light' AwardMarch 7, 2013
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Researcher reviews a thousand years of drought in KansasFebruary 20, 2013
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Professor recognized for influential algae researchFebruary 18, 2013
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College graduate students to showcase research at CapitolFebruary 13, 2013
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Book explores rise of American black Israelite religionsJanuary 31, 2013
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Geologic map for Hodgeman County now availableJanuary 24, 2013
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Researcher doubts significant changes ahead for filibuster reformJanuary 23, 2013
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College students win Undergraduate Research AwardJanuary 18, 2013
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Research links family's role in reducing childhood obesityJanuary 15, 2013
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Atchley to appear on NBC's 'Rock Center,' talk texting and drivingJanuary 10, 2013
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Gerontology research behind guidelines for health care providersJanuary 10, 2013
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NIH announces new initiatives in response to study by KU economistDecember 18, 2012
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Anthropology scholar discusses origins of doomsday mythDecember 17, 2012
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Psychology professor named 2012 AAAS FellowDecember 14, 2012
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Professor discovers oldest known camouflaging behavior in insectsDecember 11, 2012
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Interdisciplinary research grant awarded by The CommonsDecember 3, 2012
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Physics & astronomy professor proposes theory of ancient solar flareNovember 29, 2012
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New book explores the lowrider automobile's cultural rumbleNovember 28, 2012
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Market research pioneer named Chancellor's LecturerNovember 13, 2012
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Students in the College benefit from Undergraduate Research AwardsOctober 29, 2012
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College researcher proposes data exchange modelOctober 22, 2012
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Research yields promising breakthrough in solar cells based on nanocarbonSeptember 28, 2012
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Researcher’s new book about borders aims for a wide audienceSeptember 28, 2012
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Institute for teaching African-American poetry awarded national grantSeptember 27, 2012
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Molecular analysis of disease pathways focus of new KU research centerSeptember 10, 2012
