Unwinding with Ward Lyles: Compassionate Urban Planner

Ward Lyles and the text 'compassionate urban planner'

What’s the foundation of a city? For urban planner Ward Lyles, the spaces we inhabit are defined as much by an approach to life, and the people we encounter, as they are by the systems and physical structures that make up a sound infrastructure. The way he sees it, the true bedrock of a strong…

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Sam Henkin Explores Concepts of Security, Violence, and Social Justice

Sam Henkin Ph.D. Geography 5th Year

What are your research interests and why did you choose them? Was there a moment when you decided this is what you wanted to study? What was that journey like?My research of state power and security governance has drawn considerable attention to the political and spatial dynamics of social…

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Sarah Wright: Depth of Field

Sarah Wright

 Where are you from? And why did you decide to come to KU?I’m from Overland Park, Kansas. I decided to come to KU because I attended a summer camp here with Duke TiP in middle school, and I absolutely fell in love with campus. It’s also a nice mix of just close enough to home, but just far…

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Film crew experience enriches Bailey Dickman's time at KU

Bailey Dickman: Film and Media Studies

After her professor, Bob Hurst, recommended she apply for a position working on his documentary, third-year film & media studies student Bailey Dickman found herself on location in Garden City, Kan. There, she and the rest of the film crew worked together to put a spotlight on the city and its…

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Ben Clark goes to bat for the Kansas City T-Bones as a Social Media and PR intern

Ben Clark

   Hometown: Tonganoxie, Kansas Major(s) / Minor(s): Communication Studies / Journalism Internship title and organization:  Social Media and PR intern for the Kansas City T-Bones What were your responsibilities during the internship? I was responsible for running the…

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Zsófia Oszlánczi makes connections through communications internship

Zsofia Oszlanczi, Major: Communication Studies, Minors: French & Business

 Hometown: Komárom, Hungary Major(s) / Minor(s): Major is Communication Studies, minors are French and Business. Why did you choose your majors/minors? Did you always know what you wanted to study? Or was there a eureka moment? I used to be very talkative when I was little, and I…

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Aldyn Wildey finds her calling in KU's Biotechnology laboratories and lands Bioengineering internship

Aldyn Wildey. Major: Biotechnology. Minor: Business

Hometown: Abilene, KS Major and Minor: Major: Biotechnology / Minor: Business Internship title and organization: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Institute for Bioengineering Research Dr. Candan Tamerler. What were your responsibilities during the internship? My…

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Aaron Carrillo finds his passion in the Heart of KU and explores Asia through two internships

Aaron Carrillo, Major: Microbiology Pre-Medicine

Preferred Name: Everyone calls me A-A-Ron, but Aaron works too!Major(s) & Minor(s): I’m not going to lie, I’ve been jumping around in the Biology field quite a bit, but I’m currently majoring in microbiology pre-medicine.Where are you from? And why did you choose to come to KU? I’m from…

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Meet the CLAS of 2018

Students of the Class of 2018 on front of Strong Hall

As the graduates of the College took to the Hill to celebrate their accomplishments, we asked some to look back at their time at KU. These students pushed boundaries in research, made changes for the world around them, and did so much more. Their futures span the globe, but their start happened…

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Extracurricular Activities: Kathy Suprenant, quilter

Kathy Suprenant is a professor of molecular biosciences and a quilt artist."This quilt was inspired by a trip that my sister and I took to the Pacific islands in the early '90s. Even in the '90s, the ocean was becoming depleted of tasty fish and the islanders had begun to kill and eat the less…

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