University of Kansas

The middle of Cristina Ortiz's sophomore year, it hit her. Despair? Or maybe fear? Certainly a crisis of confidence. I can't be an engineer. "I reached a point where I stopped believing in myself," she said. Many other students like her in the...

In 2003, when the farmer's cooperative behind Organic Valley decided to invest in a new headquarters, company leaders brainstormed a location. Some of the more obvious choices for a growing multimillion dollar business in western Wisconsin were off...

A ghostly crowd hovers in the Spencer Museum of Art's Central Court. Positioned at varying heights and seen from different angles, the shadowy figures line the walls to uncanny effect. Men and women, standing and seated, they point and gesticulate,...

Meet Ana Blanton. She's an 18-year-old Hutchinson resident with bright eyes and an easy smile. Her cellphone is seldom out of reach, and it's busy with the buzzing and humming of text messages and Facebook notifications. She has a driver's license...

Tears will flow, laughter will erupt, and millions of dollars will be headed in the right direction. Dick Vitale will host his gala tonight at the Ritz-Carlton, and the most renowned college basketball announcer hopes to register a slam dunk in...

The curtain to the new Shawnee Mission School District opens on a stage of cowboys and cowgirls rehearsing at Westridge Middle School. Something they call "positive risk" is in full play. For a troupe of nervous middle-schoolers learning the musical...

What the University of Kansas wants, it may not get. But what it may get, it didn't request. Even as lawmakers rail against spending more on higher education and prove reluctant to fund some of KU's requests, there's some university spending they...

Possible cuts to the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita have prompted city, county and Chamber officials to write KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little to express their concerns. Gray-Little has said that if the state cuts more funding...

The Chronicle of Higher Education tells us the median salary of public university presidents rose 4.7 percent in 2011-12 to more than $440,000 a year. This increase vastly outpaced the rate of inflation, as well as the earnings of the typical worker in...

A University of Kansas freshman took a break from shooting hoops with friends outside his dormitory to talk about what some students call "study pills." As final exams approached last semester, he took a couple doses of a prescribed stimulant called...

John Castellaw adjusted his cap and gown Saturday evening at Charles Koch Arena. Within a few hours, he'd be a high school graduate. Like most of the other 3,100 Wichita public school seniors earning their diplomas this May, he studied hard, played...

When Jim Mitchell was first asked to speak for the dead, he wasn't sure what to say. "I was totally clueless," he said. Why wouldn't he be? Most of his life, Mitchell, of Independence, had been what he calls "a sign craftsman," painting ads and...