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Official account of the University of Kansas. 🔭 One of America’s leading research universities. 🌻 Bolstering Kansas. Bettering the world. #RockChalk
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Joined April 2009
Our bashful birthday baby bird, it's your day! 🥳 On Oct. 9, 1971, at halftime during the KU Homecoming game, the world welcomed a forever favorite mascot, imagined and constructed by KU alumna Amy Hurst during her freshman year. Hip, hip, hooray, Baby Jay!
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The Spencer Museum of Art at KU recently completed a $2 million challenge grant for its Arts Research Integration initiative, bringing in a total of $5 million to fund and endow the ARI program, which actively embeds artists in KU research processes.
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The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas today announced the completion of a $2 million challenge grant for its Arts Research Integration (ARI) initiative, bringing total fundraising to...
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Seventeen KU faculty members from the Lawrence and KU Medical Center campuses will be honored at the University Teaching Awards, set for 7 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Jayhawk Welcome Center. The KU community is invited to RSVP for the reception and ceremony.
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KU’s School of Business is collaborating with the Healthy Bourbon County Action Team to support economic development in southeast Kansas and provide KU students with hands-on experience sharing their business expertise with small-business owners.
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The University of Kansas School of Business has launched a collaboration with a southeast Kansas organization to support local entrepreneurs and small business owners.
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The number of working nurses in Kansas is declining, and not enough younger nurses are joining the field to replace those reaching retirement age. Those are among the findings in a report released by the Kansas Nursing Workforce Center at the @KUNursing.
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This report, which covers 10 years of data, serves as a resource to raise the alarm on nursing shortages and assist in expanding and supporting the nursing workforce in Kansas.
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The KU community recently celebrated the revitalization of Potter Lake. 🐢 With support from KU Endowment and input from expert Jayhawks across many fields, the campus landmark has been restored and preserved for future academic, research, and social activities. Rock Chalk!
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The numbers are in. 📈 As of today, there are 31,169 Jayhawks learning, researching, and creating across KU’s five campuses. This marks another new record for the largest total enrollment in our university’s history. Rock Chalk!
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Come celebrate all things Kansas and the mighty community of Jayhawks who serve Kansas every day. https://t.co/Qc0KL1Wm7Q
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KU ROTC cadets and local first responders climbed 2,071 steps at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium today to honor the service and sacrifice of 9/11 first responders. This is equivalent to the 110 flights of stairs that firefighters climbed in the World Trade Center.
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Twenty-six KU undergraduates are among more than 4,000 students worldwide chosen for the 2025 Millennium Fellowship, a leadership development program overseen by the Millennium Campus Network in partnership with United Nations Academic Impact.
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26 University of Kansas undergraduates have been selected for the 2025 Millennium Fellowship, a leadership development program overseen by the Millennium Campus Networt in partnership with United...
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The Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center, a division of KU, has opened its new regional training location at the KU Edwards Campus in Overland Park. KLETC’s main campus is in Yoder, with regional training sites in Dodge City, Hays, and Parsons.
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The Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC), a division of the University of Kansas, officially launched its new regional training location with an open house Aug. 15 at the KU Edwards Campus...
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"Soundings: Making Culture at Sea,” a new exhibition at KU’s Spencer Museum of Art, includes Greenland glacier photographs, scenes of sailing ships, Indigenous depictions of marine life, and even a life-size carved-wooden mermaid.
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Works spanning centuries bring focus to human relationships with the sea at KU art museum exhibition "Soundings."
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Earlier this week, bestselling author John Green made us laugh, think, and take stock of our humanity. 📚 Thanks to the @KUHallCenter and @KULibraries for helping create this opportunity to learn from a world-class author, advocate, and Anthropocene reviewer. Rock Chalk!
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How do you sort through the nutritional information and misinformation available online to make good dietary decisions? Heather Gibbs, an associate professor at KU’s School of Health Professions, is researching ways to increase nutritional literacy.
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Despite an abundance of nutrition misinformation on the internet, people can learn to make better choices themselves.
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KU’s Center for Innovation, Design & Digital Learning has produced guidelines that will help educators responsibly implement artificial intelligence so that it empowers teachers, parents, students, and communities from preschool through college.
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Researchers in the Center for Innovation, Design & Digital Learning at the University of Kansas have published a set of guidelines for responsible implementation of artificial intelligence in schools...
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Yesterday the KU community rededicated David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium as a World War I memorial. Originally dedicated in 1922 to honor the 129 students, faculty, staff, and alumni who died in WWI, Memorial Stadium will continue to honor these Jayhawks’ legacies. ❤️💙
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Putting the “field” in home-field advantage. 🌾 Are you ready to Wave the Wheat at our second game in the newly renovated David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium? #RockChalkTogether
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