KU will host the seventh annual GIS Day on Nov. 19 as part of a celebration of technological innovation in geographic information systems, or GIS. The symposium will be held on the fifth floor of the Kansas Union and is free and open to the public.
KU's Spencer Museum of Art has been selected as the Kansas institution to receive 50 works of contemporary art from New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel. The gifts are part of a program that is distributing art from the collection throughout the nation.
Browse photos of KU's main Lawrence campus as the seasons begin to change and leaves begin to fall. Considered one of the most beautiful campuses in the nation, KU occupies 1,000 acres on and around Mount Oread in Lawrence.
This month, KU graduate student Anthony Hoch will fly to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to determine its precise depth. The ice sheet could contribute one day to a boost in ocean levels worldwide, and Hoch's reseach could help predict what that means for the planet.
Filmed 25 years ago in Lawrence, the TV movie "The Day After" aired in November 1983. The film depicted the after-effects of a nuclear explosion on a typical American town. Many scenes were shot on KU's campus, including Allen Fieldhouse (inset).
KU employees boast an array of career-oriented, Jayhawk-centric or personally descriptive license plates around campus. Whether other drivers can decode the message or not, they always tell a story about the vehicle and its owner.
Get a different perspective on KU with our new first-person videos. Skydive from more than 5,000 feet in the air into Memorial Stadium, then buckle up and swerve through a slalom of cones in the student-built Formula SAE race car.
The School of Engineering is a leading institution in studying polar ice sheets and global climate change, has students who have won international honors in aerospace engineering and supports an SAE motorsports program ranked nationally in the top 25.
