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NEWS IN BRIEF

KU named 'College with a Conscience'

KU is a "College with a Conscience," according to the Princeton Review's 361 Best Colleges, which put KU among the top 81 schools in the country when it comes to service-learning programs and blending academics with community service.

The annual publication also named KU to its overall list of best 361 colleges and to the lists of best Midwestern colleges and America's best value colleges.

The Princeton Review looked for an engaged student body, support for student activism and support for service learning.

Promotion, tenure deadline Nov. 1

Members of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences wishing to apply for promotion and/or tenure should submit their application, endorsed by their department, to the College Dean's Office, 200 Strong Hall, by 5 p.m., Nov. 1 for consideration by the committee on Appointments, Promotion and Tenure.

Teaching award nominations due

Distinguished Teaching Award Nominations are being accepted in the Office of the Provost, 250 Strong Hall, or via e-mail at provost@ku.edu.

Funds are provided by the Ned Fleming Trust, the late Byron T. Shutz and the 25-year alumni class. The Fleming and Shutz awards are designated for full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty. The Silver Anniversary Award, funded by the 25-year alumni class, is intended for individuals in the tenure-track who have not yet been considered for tenure.

Any student, student organization, alumni, colleague, department, or school committee may nominate faculty. Previous recipients are not eligible to receive the awards.

Only the names of individuals who are being nominated for one of the three awards should be submitted. The deadline for submission is Oct. 17.

Earnhart to give Shutz Award lecture

Dietrich Earnhart, associate professor of economics, and recipient of the 20th Byron T. Shutz Award for Distinguished Teaching will present his public Shutz Award lecture, "The Effects of Ownership Structure on Corporate Performance," at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 23, in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.

Earnhart earned a bachelors from Yale University and holds doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has been a research fellow with the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan since 1999 and served as a visiting scholar at the Prague School of Economics, Czech Republic, and at the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education at Charles University, Prague.

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Lewis Lindsay Dyche earned four degrees at KU. Dyche (1857-1915) was professor and chair of zoology and taxidermy and curator of birds and mammals while leading international collecting expeditions. Dyche Hall still displays some of the thousands of wildlife specimens he collected and mounted.