2020 has been — well, take your pick of adjective: Difficult. Uncertain. Unpredictable. Unprecedented. Challenging. By now, we’ve all heard and used these words…

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2020 has been — well, take your pick of adjective: Difficult. Uncertain. Unpredictable. Unprecedented. Challenging. By now, we’ve all heard and used these words…
Can religious texts be changed by the scribe copying them down? Associate Professor of Religious Studies Molly Zahn’s new book Genres of Rewriting in…
As the first month of 2020 comes to an end, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite KU stories of 2019.…
What does it mean to commemorate a moment in time? For Professor of Communication Studies Dave Tell, commemorating the legacy of the murder of…
If you spent any time on social media this summer, you probably heard that United States government agencies confirmed the existence of video footage…
What does human trafficking look like? Most of us have seen stories of captivity play out on big or small screen with familiar casts…
When most of us imagine a “lab,” familiar images and associations come to mind: sterile spaces equipped with white coats and Petri dishes, beakers,…
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,…
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers.…
Do aliens exist on Mars? Possibly. But how do humans actually go about answering that question? One option is to examine rocks to understand the…