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A businessman wearing a Superman cape stands on a pile of rocks overlooking a city.

Superman’s bygone battle with hate group provides strategy for thwarting modern conspiracy theories

In a new book chapter, Colin McRoberts, associate teaching professor of business at the University of Kansas, traces the story of Superman’s battle with the Ku Klux Klan in a 1946 radio serial and suggests it may provide strategies for thwarting the damage done by conspiracy theories.
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KU scientist known for discoveries in precision medicine named to National Academy of Inventors

Steven Soper was among the 185 academic inventors named to the 2025 Class of NAI Fellows on Dec. 11. Election as an academy fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors.
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Book outlines how to move beyond reliance on student surveys to evaluate, improve college teaching

“Transforming College Teaching Evaluation,” a new book from scholars at the University of Kansas and colleague institutions, outlines a project that developed new ways to more fully evaluate the value of college teaching. The book details how three institutions developed a new, more robust method of evaluation that recognizes how to fully evaluate teaching and how schools can overcome resistance to implement the methods at their campuses.
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Grant to expand community-based research project focused on people with mobility disabilities

With new federal funding, a University of Kansas project is expanding access to exercise for people with disabilities. Life Span Institute researcher Lyndsie Koon says the community-based functional fitness program has shown strong results.
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Kansas Geological Survey, state agency to measure groundwater levels in western Kansas

A crew from the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas, along with staff from three field offices of the Kansas Department of Agriculture's Division of Water Resources will be in western Kansas to measure groundwater levels the first week of January 2026, weather permitting.
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Grant launches initiative to integrate faith perspectives into health education

The Department of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas received a $60,000, two-year grant from the nonprofit group Interfaith America to create partnerships with community groups addressing the spiritual connection to health issues.
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Grant to expand community-based research project focused on people with mobility disabilities

With new federal funding, a University of Kansas project is expanding access to exercise for people with disabilities. Life Span Institute researcher Lyndsie Koon says the community-based functional fitness program has shown strong results.
A crew member measures water levels in a well in western Kansas.

Kansas Geological Survey, state agency to measure groundwater levels in western Kansas

A crew from the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas, along with staff from three field offices of the Kansas Department of Agriculture's Division of Water Resources will be in western Kansas to measure groundwater levels the first week of January 2026, weather permitting.
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With new federal funding, a University of Kansas project is expanding access to exercise for people with disabilities. Life Span Institute researcher Lyndsie Koon says the community-based functional fitness program has shown strong results.

Kansas Geological Survey, state agency to measure groundwater levels in western Kansas

A crew from the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas, along with staff from three field offices of the Kansas Department of Agriculture's Division of Water Resources will be in western Kansas to measure groundwater levels the first week of January 2026, weather permitting.
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Kansas Geological Survey, state agency to measure groundwater levels in western Kansas

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Kansas Geological Survey, state agency to measure groundwater levels in western Kansas

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Grant to expand community-based research project focused on people with mobility disabilities

With new federal funding, a University of Kansas project is expanding access to exercise for people with disabilities. Life Span Institute researcher Lyndsie Koon says the community-based functional fitness program has shown strong results.
A crew member measures water levels in a well in western Kansas.

Kansas Geological Survey, state agency to measure groundwater levels in western Kansas

A crew from the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas, along with staff from three field offices of the Kansas Department of Agriculture's Division of Water Resources will be in western Kansas to measure groundwater levels the first week of January 2026, weather permitting.
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Grant launches initiative to integrate faith perspectives into health education

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An instructor demonstrates how to complete an exercise.

Grant to expand community-based research project focused on people with mobility disabilities

With new federal funding, a University of Kansas project is expanding access to exercise for people with disabilities. Life Span Institute researcher Lyndsie Koon says the community-based functional fitness program has shown strong results.
A crew member measures water levels in a well in western Kansas.

Kansas Geological Survey, state agency to measure groundwater levels in western Kansas

A crew from the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas, along with staff from three field offices of the Kansas Department of Agriculture's Division of Water Resources will be in western Kansas to measure groundwater levels the first week of January 2026, weather permitting.
Hospital chaplain at a patient’s bedside

Grant launches initiative to integrate faith perspectives into health education

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An instructor demonstrates how to complete an exercise.

Grant to expand community-based research project focused on people with mobility disabilities

With new federal funding, a University of Kansas project is expanding access to exercise for people with disabilities. Life Span Institute researcher Lyndsie Koon says the community-based functional fitness program has shown strong results.
A crew member measures water levels in a well in western Kansas.

Kansas Geological Survey, state agency to measure groundwater levels in western Kansas

A crew from the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas, along with staff from three field offices of the Kansas Department of Agriculture's Division of Water Resources will be in western Kansas to measure groundwater levels the first week of January 2026, weather permitting.
Hospital chaplain at a patient’s bedside

Grant launches initiative to integrate faith perspectives into health education

The Department of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas received a $60,000, two-year grant from the nonprofit group Interfaith America to create partnerships with community groups addressing the spiritual connection to health issues.
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