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TOPONYMS

E.H.S. Bailey was the only professor for the chemistry and pharmacy departments' 35 students when KU opened its first Chemistry Hall in 1883. By the end of the 1890s, the facility was too small and outdated, and a larger, more modern hall was built of Oread limestone, opening in 1900. Bailey was chief chemist for the Kansas State Board of Health and the state Geological Survey. “Bailey's barn” was officially named in his honor in 1938, five years after his death. For more, see www.buildings.ku.edu.

NOTABLE ALUMS

A one-time Kansas farm boy, Darrell Abernethy is now chief science officer for U.S. Pharmacopeia, a Rockville nonprofit organization that sets standards for prescription and over-the-counter medicines, dietary supplements, food ingredients and other health-care products manufactured and sold in the U.S. He earned a degree in chemistry at KU and two in pharmacology at the KU Medical Center.

KU HISTORY

On Oct. 16, 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act into law. It was the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. KU registered 1,083 men in the Kansas Union. By the end of World War II, 276 KU men and women had lost their lives in the conflict. For more, visit www.kuhistory.com

RESEARCH MATTERS

Plants from Antarctica have revealed the icy continent was once a warm place to be. Edith Taylor, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and senior curator of paleobotany, has studied fossilized plants that thrived there from 240 million to 260 million years ago. As the global climate warms, Taylor said, plants from South America could migrate further south, once again inhabiting Antarctica. For more information and to listen, visit www.researchmatters.ku.edu.

KU HISTORY

On Oct. 16, 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act into law. It was the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. KU registered 1,083 men in the Kansas Union. By the end of World War II, 276 KU men and women had lost their lives in the conflict. For more, visit www.kuhistory.com