Dancer channels monarch plight in garden photowork
Ballet dancer Gwynedd Vetter-Drusch, 22, of Lawrence, will pose as a butterfly in Kansas University's Monarch Watch milkweed garden for a photo and film project Moving for Monarchs. She promotes monarch preservation inspired by EU professor Chip Taylor and a March 2013 New York Times piece.
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EU geographers win defense grant to study Central America
KU geography professor Jerickson Dobson leads a 14 project cohort under the Minerva Research Initiative, receiving about 18 million dollars over three years to study indigenous communities in Central America. The KU American Geographical Society collaboration with Peter Herlihy continues fieldwork in Honduras under the Bowman Expeditions program.
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County takes no action on quarry near Hamm Buchheim
Douglas County residents near the Hamm Buchheim Quarry voiced frustration as county commissioners declined to alter the quarry permit. They approved an agreement with N R Hamm Inc to share dust suppression costs on the gravel road and a 40 mile per hour speed limit, but said they lack authority to amend terms set more than 35 years ago.
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