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STUDYING WHAT IT TAKES: The landmark 1995 Risley-Hart study was cited in "What it Takes to Make a Student," by Paul Tough, in the Nov. 26 issue of the New York Times Magazine. Tough credits Life Span Institute researchers Betty Hart, associate professor emeritus, and former KU professor Todd Risely, with identifying a reason for the gap in school performance between poorer and more privileged children.

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The original Blake Hall opened in 1895 and was named in honor of Lucien I. Blake (1853-1916), the physics and engineering professor who persuaded the legislature to spend $50,000 to build it. He left KU in 1906 to continue pioneering, lucrative research in electricity, X-rays and underwater wireless communications.