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KU School of Music announces fundraising drive to honor renowned professor

After 41 years of directing bands and teaching music at the University of Kansas School of Music, world-renowned musician and composer James Barnes will retire this spring.

New KU professorship honors longtime pharmaceutical researcher

In his second-floor corner office in Simons Biosciences Research Laboratories at the University of Kansas, Professor Ron Borchardt gestures to file cabinets lining a wall.

KU professor and researcher to be honored by Chancellors Club

Whether conducting research to tackle life-threatening diseases or implementing innovative classroom techniques to inspire students, James Orr, Ph.D., and Russell Swerdlow, M.D., are proven standouts at the University of Kansas.

KU Law professorship honors former law professor

University of Kansas School of Law alumnus Art Piculell of Portland, Oregon, and his late wife, Dee, have made a $500,000 gift to establish a professorship honoring the late Professor Earl B. Shurtz, who taught at KU Law from 1955 to 1977.

Chancellors Club honors KU professors

University of Kansas professors Vicky Unruh and Charles Little respectively are recipients of the 2013 Chancellors Club Career Teaching Award and Chancellors Club Research Award.

Inventor donates $2 million to KU for physics and nursing programs

As the inventor of Superflab, a medical device used in radiology clinics across the country, Gene Feaster made a lasting improvement in the field of health care.

KU alumna makes $2 million gift commitment to create professorship in the School of Education

A University of Kansas alumna has made a $2 million gift commitment to establish the first counseling psychology professorship at KU. This will be the second largest gift in the history of the School of Education.

Four professors honored with prestigious Chancellors Club Teaching Professorships

Four University of Kansas faculty members have been named Chancellors Club Teaching Professors: Philip Barnard, professor of English; Winnie Dunn, professor of occupational therapy; Paul R. Hanson, professor of chemistry; and Jack Winerock, professor of music.

New faculty mentoring award honors longtime KU journalism professor

Showing his lasting appreciation for the mentorship he received as a University of Kansas journalism student, alumnus Mark Mears and his wife, Stacy, have established a faculty award honoring Associate Professor Timothy Bengtson.

Chancellors Club honors public administration professor and neurology researcher for faculty awards

Making strides internationally in the areas of public affairs and neurology, KU professors Dr. John Nalbandian and Richard J. Barohn, MD, have been respectively named winners of the 2012 Chancellors Club career teaching and research awards.