KU announces four new Self Graduate Fellows

Self fellowships are four-year awards to new or first-year doctoral students that cover full tuition and fees, provide a $24,500 annual payment and include a unique development program. (September 2009)

KU museum studies graduate students uncover Underground Railroad secrets

An exhibition about the Underground Railroad in Douglas County at the Watkins Community Museum of History served as a workshop for museum studies students at KU. (September 2009)

Third KU doctoral student to study abroad with Fulbright-Hays fellowship

Since the Fulbright program’s inception in 1946, 413 KU students have received grants or fellowships. (September 2009)

Fulbright students to attend orientation program at KU

The program will help the students acclimate to academic life and American culture before they begin their graduate studies. (July 2009)

KU graduate students use classroom lessons to help local homeless shelter

The students in the service-learning course will focus on creating communications materials for the Lawrence Community Shelter. (July 2009)

School of Education announces spring graduate, undergraduate awards

Students were recognized for outstanding doctoral dissertation, master’s thesis, master’s project and senior leadership. (July 2009)

KU graduate students researching cancer pharmaceuticals win national fellowships

The fellowships from the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education are worth $6,000 each. (July 2009)

KU study reveals extent of crosswind risk to truckers

Working with the Kansas Department of Transportation, the KU research group is formulating a number of strategies to warn motorists of the presence of strong crosswinds. (June 2009)

Six students receive funding to study climate change at KU

The new students will join five selected last fall to participate in KU’s groundbreaking program known as C-CHANGE (Climate Change, Humans and Nature in the Global Environment). (June 2009)

Doctoral student wins philosophy department’s Robinson Essay Contest

The contest, open to undergraduate and graduate students at KU, welcomed submissions on any philosophical topic. (May 2009)

KU alumna to head Spencer Research Library

Beth M. Whittaker is head of special collections cataloging at Ohio State University. She has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from KU. (May 2009)

KU classics department honors 2009 award recipients

Eleven students received more than $5,500 in awards and scholarships for outstanding achievement in the study of Greek and Latin as well as Greek and Roman literature, civilization and archaeology. (May 2009)

Doctoral student’s examination of sex tourism wins 2009 Laird essay contest

Laura A. Dean receives $500, a book of her choice, a certificate and her name on a plaque at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies that bears the names of all winners. (May 2009)

Keeping Soldiers in Service

More wounded U.S. Military personnel are surviving yet their injuries make it difficult to continue serving. KU and the U.S. Army are partners in a program that gives injured personnel the opportunity to complete graduate degrees and stay in the service. (April 2009)

KU graduate student researcher takes aim at deadly brain tumors

Natalie Ciaccio spearheads the first group in the world to isolate and study the makeup of ATF5 — a promising cancer drug target. (April 2009)

KU graduate student charts sinkholes that undermine a vital Kansas highway

With funding from KU’s Transportation Research Institute, A.J. Herrs plots the surface of the sinkholes precisely using technology called LiDAR. Use of the remote sensing device is a unique opportunity for a graduate student. (March
2009)

KU medicinal chemistry doctoral students receive $23,000 in fellowships

The American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education recognized three students in the School of Pharmacy with prestigious pre-doctoral fellowships to support their research. HOMETOWNS: Lawrence, Kan.; Alpharetta, Ga.; and Urbandale, Iowa. (February 2009)

Measles Vaccine

Every hour, 22 people die from measles, mainly in impoverished nations. The disease is most lethal to kids. Now, the Laboratory for Macromolecular and Vaccine Stabilization at KU has taken on the problem of making a more durable vaccine to prevent measles. Graduate student Julian Kissman led the research effort. (February 2009)

Mellon fellowship funds KU student’s study of African-American women’s clubs

Doretha K. Williams, a University of Kansas doctoral student researching the role African-American women’s clubs played in shaping Kansas communities, received a Mellon Mays Fellowship Dissertation grant for her research in American studies. (December 2008)

McDermott Receives PhD Fellowship Award

David McDermott, a graduate student in the Department of Geography, has been selected to be the 2008 recipient of the $1,000 PhD Fellowship Award from the Cartographic and Geographic Information Society. The award will be presented at the American Association of Geographers meeting in April. (November 2008)

4th Annual Graduate Research Poster Competition

The Graduate Engineering Association announced winners of the 4th annual Graduate Research Poster Competition on Friday, November 7th. Hou In "Edmond" Leong placed first in the Master's category. In the Doctoral category, William Blake, Nicolas Jaumard, and Joseph Lomakin tied for first place. (November 2008)

KU Student Researcher Braves Antarctic Chill to Gauge Ice Thickness

This month, KU graduate student Anthony Hoch will fly to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to determine its precise depth. The ice sheet could contribute one day to a boost in ocean levels worldwide, and Hoch's research could help predict what that means for the planet. (November 2008)

Researcher of Invasive Bee’s Expansion Collects First Specimen in West near KU

Three years ago, University of Kansas doctoral student Ismael Hinojosa-Díaz investigated the spread of an invasive species of Asian bee, called the Giant Resin Bee. From data previously collected, Hinojosa-Díaz and four colleagues foretold in an academic journal of that bee’s potential to inhabit the entire eastern half of North America, as far west as the Great Plains. This past summer Hinojosa-Díaz captured a Giant Resin Bee in Lawrence near the KU campus. (November 2008)

'Supreme Court' for New Species

KU professor Daphne Fautin is a commissioner for the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, the world’s top body overseeing the naming of new species. Among this year’s ‘top 10’ new species is this bat, discovered in the Philippines by a KU graduate student, Jake Esselstyn. (June 2008)