KU Calendar Highlights Summer Activities and Orientation Sessions
KU calendar lists a Museum of Natural History children’s workshop through July 16 with daily sessions andFees. Programs include Wings Stings and Other Strange Things Aquatic Biology Exploring Nature Fun With Fossils and A People Party for various ages. Also a children’s swimming program at Robinson Center with weekday sessions through July 27. New student orientation for liberal arts sciences and transfer students at Kansas Union with registration required. Movie on the Hill Beauty and the Beast on Campanile Hill. Kansas Summer Theatre The Comedy of Errors at Crafton Preyer Theatre with box office tickets. Jazz workshop in Murphy Hall ends July 23. Summer degree deadline approaches for arts and sciences freshmen. Call numbers provided for details.
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Kansas National Cheerleading Association
Templin Hall
Kansas Summer
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P.m. Crafton-Preyer
Murphy Hall
Office of Admissions
Agronomy grads turn to golf course work in growing industry
In Carbondale Illinois John Forys and others pivot from shrinking farming to turfgrass careers on golf courses. With 14 000 courses nationwide and hiring growth, grads command early salaries around 25000 a year with potential for six figure pay on top courses.
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Southern Illinois University
Okanville
U.S. Department of Labor
United States
Diesburg
Michigan State University
Bruce Branham
Department of
Mississippi
National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture
Parkinson's research earns half a million grant for KUMC
Kansas City KAN Researchers at the University of Kansas Medical Center receive a $500,000 five year grant from the American Parkinson Disease Association. KU becomes the fourth advanced research center with ongoing work by William Keller under director Kimberly Kirkland Seidman noting KU's rising international standing.
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Kansas University Medical Center
American Parkinson Disease Assn
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KUMC
Kimberly Kirkland Seidman
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William Keller
University Information Center Call Tim Carpenter
University Information Center provides EU news contact Tim Carpenter at 832 7155 for inquiries. Source line lists 864 3506 for University Information Center information and updates.
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Tim Carpenter
University Information Center
Readable formats aid older readers in benefits info
Researcher Susan Kemper finds seniors struggle with insurance and veterans benefits text. She studies how aging memory affects understanding and suggests rewriting sentences with final clauses, full names instead of pronouns, and simpler structures to help older adults grasp important points.
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Kansas University
Kemper
National Institutes of Health
Joplin couple commits $55,000 to KU funds through trust
Joplin residents Larry and Virginia Hickey donate 55000 via a charitable remainder trust to KU Endowment via the Second Century Fund. Of the gift 50000 benefits the KU Alumni Association and 5000 supports the KU Band. Larry Hickey, former Joplin mayor and KU 1943 business grad, leads as a major donor. Virginia Hickey helped found a Gamma Phi Beta chapter at USC and serves on the Missouri Council of the Arts board. Their son William Scruggs earned a KU graduate degree.
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KU Band
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Virginia Hickey
KU Alumni Association
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Coffeyville
Hickey Oil Co
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