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KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · 2d

Via Midwest STEM Alliance, @universityofkansas.bsky.social researchers will elevate science education in rural elementary schools. “Students experience all sorts of scientific phenomena in their daily lives, and we want to make space for that in elementary classrooms.”

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Building a Midwest STEM Alliance

KU researchers are part of a national project to build a Midwest STEM Alliance, with plans to work with Kansas educators.

KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · 5d

Researchers from @universityofkansas.bsky.social implemented an intervention for Kansas child welfare caseworkers that lowered secondary traumatic stress and boosted the resilience in this workforce faced with occupational trauma, burnout and negative health outcomes.

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KU program found effective in helping reduce stress among child welfare service providers

Resilience Alliance, a program aimed at reducing trauma, stress, burnout for social workers, shown effective.

KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · 10d

The latest from @universityofkansas.bsky.social music professor Brandon Draper’s 2024 deal with KU graduate Oz McGuire’s Symphonic Distribution service starts with “In My Dreams,” a Draper Family Band single being released Oct. 3.

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The family that makes music together

Drapers’ second album features KU Music professor, his father, daughter

KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · 11d

On the same page.
Judge a book by its cover.
Read someone’s mind.

A @universityofkansas.bsky.social professor’s new book details how these “bookish” phrases that rose to prominence in the 16th and 17th centuries remain in use today.

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New book examines how ‘bookish’ language of Shakespeare’s England influenced today’s society

A KU professor reveals how the broad lexicon of book-related words in the newly print-savvy era of Shakespeare’s England taught cultures how to think, contemplate and describe the world.

KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · 15d

Earlier this morning, Office of Family Engagement director Nikita Haynie spoke with Rae Daniel about @universityofkansas.bsky.social Family Weekend, which kicks off today on the Lawrence campus. Read more and watch at @kshb41.bsky.social.

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This weekend is Family Weekend at the University of Kansas

KU’s Family Engagement Director, Nikita Haynie says along with all the fun activities, families can support their students throughout the school year.

KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · 15d

By writing an artificial intelligence guide for teachers, a pair of @universityofkansas.bsky.social English scholars is shepherding educators to interrogate — and perhaps integrate — AI into their curriculum.

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New guide helps educators build critical AI literacy

A new article offers a guide for educators to help students and fellow teachers develop critical AI literacy.

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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 19d

Kansas law professor calls for cultural shifts to address environmental crises | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg

Kansas law professor calls for cultural shifts to address environmental crises • Kansas Reflector

People must reconsider their connection to other species and KU professor and international law expert John Head

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KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks to National Science Foundation funding, @universityofkansas.bsky.social investigators will develop “intelligent spectrum management frameworks” to enable reliable communication so that ever-expanding fleets of drones can operate safely and dependably.

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Researchers will create safer, more reliable communication for drones and air taxis

Click for more on NSF grant to multidisciplinary KU team.

KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · Sep 9

A partnership with the Healthy Bourbon County Action Team means @kubusiness.bsky.social students will gain a stronger connection to and understanding of Kansas’ economic landscape while contributing to its continued growth.

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KU School of Business partners with Healthy Bourbon County Action Team to strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystem in southeast Kansas

The University of Kansas School of Business has launched a collaboration with a southeast Kansas organization to support local entrepreneurs and small business owners.

KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · Sep 8

Former @universityofkansas.bsky.social student Elyce Arons, co-founder of the Kate Spade and Frances Valentine brands, will make her first return to the Lawrence campus in more than four decades — a visit that will be punctuated by a fireside chat Sept. 26.

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Entrepreneur and author Elyce Arons returns to KU for fireside chat

The former student, co-founder of the Kate Spade and Frances Valentine brands, will speak Sept. 26.

KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · Sep 4

New @universityofkansas.bsky.social scholarship brings a theory from the 1960s about how we engage with one another at work into the 21st century. Socio-Technical Exchange takes into account how we interact with ubiquitous technology.

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Human-machine communication patterns inspire new theory

KU scholars propose ‘Socio-Technical Exchange’ as contemporary refinement

KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · Sep 3

On the latest “When Experts Attack!” episode, @universityofkansas.bsky.social trade law expert Raj Bhala addresses “the greatest disruption in trade since the end of World War II,” including what tariffs mean for Canada. Listen and subscribe.

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KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · Sep 3

A early 1900s Kansas industrial relations court outlawed strikes and lockouts, applied heavy criminal sanctions and dictated terms of work life like wages and hours. A @universityofkansas.bsky.social scholar calls it “America’s closest practical encounter with fascism.”

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'The Kansas Industrial Court' and controversial labor law legacy

KU professor writes new book on largely forgotten court in Kansas and its legacy on American labor law.

KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · Sep 2

Country music has functioned as a political bellwether in the U.S. for more than 100 years, @universityofkansas.bsky.social English scholar Iain Ellis writes in @popmatters.com.

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Country Music Is a Political Bellwether » PopMatters

If politics runs downstream from culture per the "Breitbart Doctrine", then do far-right politics run downstream from country music?

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KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · Sep 2

New @universityofkansas.bsky.social scholarship shows cellophane bees are specially equipped by evolution to handle harsh shocks and cold temperatures of early spring, recovering from “chill coma” about twice as quickly as honeybees and handling much lower temperatures.

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Research shows cellophane bee is built for the chill

Click for a new study from University of Kansas researchers in the journal Ecology and Evolution

KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · Aug 29

Merry Sun, a KU lecturer in visual art, is drawn toward industrial materials in her work. “I like the idea of a working object where labor and service are built into its intrinsic nature.” Read about her show at the @universityofkansas.bsky.social Spencer Museum of Art.

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Scholar/artist Merry Sun draws on Asian heritage for inspiration

Works by Charlotte Street Visual Artists Award winner balance between monumental, ethereal

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KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum @kunhm.bsky.social · Aug 28

Exciting news from KU Ichthyology! 📣🐟 Research Affiliate Gloria Arratia, a global catfish expert, edited & contributed to the recently published volume "Catfishes: A Highly Diversified Group".

📸: Hypancistrus zebra by Leandro Sousa
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KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · Aug 27

The @universityofkansas.bsky.social is the only institution in the state to be designated a Center of Academic Excellence in both cyber defense and in research. Read about KU's latest designation from the National Security Agency.

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KU designated National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research

Researchers and faculty members at the University of Kansas’ Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science recently received redesignation as a Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Resear...

KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · Aug 26

Catfishes have long captured the popular imagination, says a @universityofkansas.bsky.social professor who published an updated volume on the species. “Hearing about a fish that has ‘barbels,’ like whiskers, or that lives at night — it gives catfish an air of mystery.”

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KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · Aug 22

The public is invited to rededicate David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium in honor of 130 @universityofkansas.bsky.social Jayhawks who gave their lives during World War I. The ceremony is at 2:30 p.m. Aug. 29 on the Garlinghouse Plaza on the northeast side of the stadium.

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KU plans rededication ceremony for WWI memorial

A new memorial at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium renews KU's commitment to honoring Jayhawks who sacrificed their lives in World War I. The public is invited to a rededication ceremony at 2:30 p....

KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · Aug 22

A @universityofkansas.bsky.social philosophy scholar explored the question of whether artificial intelligence can truly exhibit morality. “I think that logic is so far stretched because there are certain things tied to us as human beings that AI systems don’t have.”

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AI can imitate morality without actually having it, new philosophy study finds

A new paper shows that although AI does not currently have practical judgment, it has a functionally equivalent mechanism — transformer models — which can allow it to form maxims that consider morally...

KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · Aug 18

Ibrahim Traoré has become an almost “messianic figure” on the internet, @universityofkansas.bsky.social scholar @jyeku.bsky.social tells @washingtonpost.com bureau chief Rachel Chason. “For many young Africans, the democratic experiment is practically dead.”

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How a little-known coup leader became a Pan-African hero

The Post traveled to Burkina Faso to shed light on President Ibrahim Traoré’s remarkable reinvention — from obscure junta leader to political icon.

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KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · Aug 18

When @universityofkansas.bsky.social art historian Emily Casey came to Kansas, she wondered what it might mean to teach about the art of the sea in a landlocked state. As evidenced in a new exhibition she co-curated, “there are so many connections to the ocean here.”

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Art brings ideas about ocean to landlocked place

Works spanning centuries bring focus to human relationships with the sea at KU art museum exhibition "Soundings."

KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · Aug 14

Music therapists must know something about and be able to play many different types of music. Yet far more important is their musical flexibility, responsiveness and intent to help clients, according to @universityofkansas.bsky.social researchers.

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Research pins down skills that make a good music therapist

Authors of new study analyzed a dozen veterans to inform training of future counselors

KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · Aug 12

Policy addressing people’s ability to afford heating and cooling should be a more central part of energy law, @universityofkansas.bsky.social professor argues. “To treat low-income energy insecurity as primarily a poverty problem has allowed inequities to continue.”

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Study traces history of legislation to help low-income households pay for energy

New study traces history, argues for including low-income energy policy as part of energy law.