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#KUFieldWorks: Monitoring bat viruses to prevent the next pandemic (Opens in new window)
Katherine Hanson receives travel award to attend Research Conference
Qi Zhang Receives Travel Award to Attend Cancer Research Conference
Meet your Professor Interview: Jocelyn Colella
U.S. News & World Report ranks 37 KU graduate programs in top 50 among public schools
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has 37 graduate programs in the top 50 among public universities – including nine programs in the top 10 – in the 2024 rankings from U.S. News & World Report, released today. ...
STEM ANTS: A New Student Organization
February 2023 Student Spotlight : Navya Singh (Opens in new window)
KU, Haskell students to present research projects at 23rd annual symposium
LAWRENCE – Research on the evolution of immunity, historical trauma and social determinants of health in Native American communities, use of microfluidics for diagnostics, communication strategies of bacteria, soil microbe effects on maize growth and effects of social behavior and stress on brain signaling will be among student work presented...
Biology Students receive Creativity Awards (Opens in new window)
Alumni Spotlight: Thomas Johnson (Opens in new window)
Undergraduate Biology Student Researcher: Cailin Kessen
Extinction of steam locomotives derails assumptions about biological evolution (Opens in new window)
Kansas-based undergraduate bioscience symposium returns to face-to-face presentations for 2023 (Opens in new window)
Do you already have Alzheimer’s? That's what scientists at KU are asking young people (Opens in new window)
KU students to present at Kansas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol
LAWRENCE — Undergraduate researchers from the University of Kansas Lawrence and Medical Center campuses will present their research projects March 1 as part of Kansas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol. ...
Bestselling author to discuss the ‘dark history and troubling present of eugenics’
LAWRENCE — A scientist, broadcaster and bestselling author who focuses on the complicated, interwoven history of genetics and race will give a public seminar at the University of Kansas in early March. ...
Researchers plan center to track mammal pathogens in the wild to warn of coming pandemics
Undergraduate Biology Student Researcher: Kade Townsend
K-INBRE Symposium: A Successful Gathering of Scientific Minds
Bacteria economics? Why it pays to cooperate, for them and us (Opens in new window)
Meet Cora Downs - a KU Biology Historical Highlight
Cornelia ‘Cora’ Downs was born in Kansas City, Kansas in 1892. As a young adult she attended the University of Kansas and in 1924 she became was the first woman to earn a doctoral degree from the University. Her PhD was in bacteriology and after graduation she retained her position...
New program to match STEM undergraduates, faculty mentors to increase diversity, mitigate effects of pandemic
Researcher helps build center for avian-influenza pandemic preparedness with NSF award
Undergraduate Biology announces Fall 2022 Scholarship Winners
Using fungi, researchers convert ocean plastic into ingredients for drug industry
LAWRENCE — Research on fungi underway at the University of Kansas has helped transform tough-to-recycle plastic waste from the Pacific Ocean into key components for making pharmaceuticals. ...
Book details how Native Americans of the Pacific Coast sustainably managed resources
54 KU students receive Undergraduate Research Awards for spring 2023
LAWRENCE — This spring, 54 University of Kansas students will receive an Undergraduate Research Award (UGRA) from the Center for Undergraduate Research. UGRA recipients are awarded a $1,000 scholarship as they work on mentored research and creative projects. ...
KU awarded grant to assist in bringing equity and excellence to introductory science classes
LAWRENCE — An interdisciplinary team of professors at the University of Kansas has received a $529,500 grant to improve student success and reduce achievement gaps in undergraduate science education. ...