Distinguished Alumni: William Fisher embarked on successful geology career thanks to trouble with chemistry
Looking at the sum of his career, William Fisher attributes many of his accomplishments to a crucial conversation during his college years. Initially, Fisher was intent on a biochemistry major as an undergraduate at Southern Illinois University. That is, until a professor (who just happened to…
Distinguished Alumni: Edgar Heap of Birds known worldwide as innovator of conceptual Native American art
Growing up in an underprivileged area of Wichita, Kansas, it never occurred to Edgar Heap of Birds that being a professional artist was an option for a career. Luckily, for the art world, the many students he’s taught, and the people he’s honored and educated with his art worldwide, it was. …
Putting the Issues in Perspective
Faculty called upon for expertise as media cover significant current events When a young man was fatally shot by police in Ferguson, Mo., media coverage did not naturally gravitate toward examining mid-century suburban development in the St. Louis area. For Clarence Lang, however, the connection…
Alumna is first female combat arms officer
The University of Kansas Army ROTC commissioned its first female Field Artillery officer this spring following Pentagon orders in 2013 to open combat-arms branches to women across all military services. Madeline Wilcox, of Leavenworth, commissioned on Monday, May 19, as a second lieutenant in the…
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…
Distinguished Alumni: John Gurche brings the past to life combining art and paleontology
As a paleo-artist, John Gurche reproduces lifelike sculptures of human ancestors. If you notice a lifelike presence when you look into the eyes of John Gurche’s sculpture of an ancient human ancestor, that’s no accident. The paleo-artist, who has made a career of creating reproductions of early…
Distinguished Alumni: Foreign service career placed B. Lynn Pascoe in the middle of major world events
Imagine witnessing many monumental international issues of the 20th century firsthand. Living in China as a political officer in the 1970s right after the Nixon and Kissinger visits, being in Moscow in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, helping Indonesia heal from a tsunami and…
Graduation Profile: Honduran filmmaker looks to the future
Honduran filmmaker, Hispano Durón, looks to a creative future making films and teaching at the University of Honduras after successfully achieving his Ph.D in film and media studies. Durón gives keynote speech at the II El Heraldo Film Festival in Honduras, October 2013. Being a filmmaker in…
KU students, alumni, faculty bring WWI history to life
The KU WWI Project will commemorate the centennial of the war with four years of projects and events to bring the past into the present. This image incorporates an illustration from the 1918 Jayhawker yearbook. When a long-dead archduke and his assassin begin following you on Twitter, odds are…
From Liberal Arts to Law - Tony Arnold
Tony Arnold earned his B.A. in political science and history from KU in 1987.Tony Arnold has written and taught extensively about the role and limits of law in achieving protection of Lake Mono, Calif. (pictured), from water withdrawals in Los Angeles. It is a distinctive terminal lake tied to the…