Why Tracey is a Hawk to Watch: Oftentimes schoolwork is enough for a passing grade, and usually it’s good enough for a degree. On…

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Why Tracey is a Hawk to Watch: Oftentimes schoolwork is enough for a passing grade, and usually it’s good enough for a degree. On…
Enrollment for Fall 2022 is open, and there is no shortage of fun and interesting things to learn about in the College of Liberal…
Famed writer and one-time Lawrence resident Langston Hughes, born in Joplin, Mo., is celebrated throughout the University of Kansas and the city. To help…
Our humanities graduates push boundaries, driven by the conviction that anything is possible. They look to the past to understand different ways of living,…
Kierstin McMichael is the definition of busy. Between leadership positions and jobs on campus, reading and studying hundreds of pages a week for her…
Evan Traylor is the kind of person who goes after what he wants and doesn’t look back. From his first campus tour, Evan knew…
In the decades since her disappearance in the summer of 1937, famed aviator and Kansan Amelia Earhart has continued to captivate the interest of…
Why did you choose your major? Chelsea Whiteside, senior majoring in applied behavioral science major and minoring in sociology “I chose to major in…
Wanderlust is real. Travel-related personal goals or “bucket list” items are common; some people want to visit all the U.S. states, or all the…
If you’ve struggled with deciding on a major, you’re not alone – you’re actually in the majority. About 80 percent of college-bound students don’t…
What started as a high school project turned into five years of work and a self-published novel that’s already in its second printing. Crystal…
Garrett Farlow spent his summer halfway around the world in Kazakhstan working to help journalists break away from government censorship and playing sports with…
Vampires are an elusive, transfixing and terrifying piece of folklore. Their human characteristics and affinity for blood make them even more fearsome. Vampires appear…
As a first-generation college student and a single parent earning minimum wage, Alyssa Cole was stressed and frustrated. At the end of her rope,…
It’s a story that could’ve been taken straight from the script of a romantic comedy. For most of their lives, they had been just…
Katherine Gwynn, B.A. in English and women, gender & sexuality studies, Class of 2015 As a double major in English and women, gender &…
Adam Sundberg, Ph.D. student in history, Class of 2015 Growing up in the same house with an evolutionary botanist and a historian clearly had…
Alumna combats violence against native women through tribal law reform Chaos. That’s how Sarah Deer, College alumna and MacArthur ‘genius’ grant winner, describes her…
Just after collecting his diploma in 2009, Patrick Mathay embarked on a bike trip that would steer him toward his future career. It started…
Katie Conrad is an associate professor of English and a member of the Lawrence band, MAW The Lawrence band MAW is a group with…
When a long-dead archduke and his assassin begin following you on Twitter, odds are that something interesting is about to happen. What has led…