NEWS IN BRIEF
CLAS faculty sabbatical applications due Sept. 8
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty who wish to apply for sabbatical leave for the 2009-10 academic year must submit an endorsed application -- one original and one copy -- to the College Dean's Office, 200 Strong Hall, by 5 p.m. Sept. 8. Only those applications submitted to the dean's office by Sept. 8 will be forwarded to the Office of the Provost. Self-nominations are due in the Provost's Office by Sept. 15.Interested faculty should review the College-specific application procedures found at www.clas.ku.edu. For more information, call 864-3681.
Faculty, staff can ride buses without passes
Faculty, staff and students can now ride any KU bus without a pass or paying a fare. All that is required is a KU card, and only on off-campus stops. The KU Card will also be accepted on Lawrence "T" buses. The changes come after students voted to eliminate passes and fares last spring. Lawrence residents with a T pass or transfer slip will be able to ride KU on Wheels buses. After Oct. 1, riders will need a new KU Card to ride the T, and riders without a KU card, city T pass or transfer slip will be required to pay $1 per ride. For more information, e-mail kuwheels@mail.ku.edu.University Women's Club sign-up day Sept. 4
The University Women's Club is inviting faculty, staff or their spouses to join the 108-year old organization, which benefits womens schlarships. A sign-up day to join and look over interest groups will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept 4 in the Malott Room of the Kansas Union.Complete details regarding membership, registration and activities are at www.ku.edu/~univwm or contact Susan Lomas at 841-3248 or Sue Givens at 843-9438.
Four new stop signs placed on campus
Four new stop signs have been installed near traffic booths on campus. The signs will help slow traffic, increase pedestrian safety and regulate campus traffic.The new stop signs were placed at traffic booths at the west end of Jayhawk Boulevard for eastbound traffic entering near the Chi Omega fountain; the north side of the intersection of Sunflower Road and Sunnyside Avenue for northbound traffic; the south side of the intersection of Jayhawk Boulevard and 14th Street for southbound traffic; and at the south end of Mississippi Street near the intersection of Memorial Drive for southbound Mississippi Street traffic.
Plans to replace the existing signage at the booths are under way.
Bailey to give inaugural lecture Sept. 9
Victor Bailey, the Charles W. Battey Distinguished Professor of Modern British History, will present his inaugural lecture titled "Crime and the Social Historian: Policing Jack-the-Ripper's London" at 5:30 p.m. Sept 9 in the Commons located in Spooner Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.Weaver named member of governor's task force
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has announced the creation of a task force charged with crafting a new strategic transportation approach that positions Kansas for the future. Pat Weaver, associate director of the Transportation Research Institute, is a member of the task force. Sebelius directed Kansas Department of Transportation Secretary Deb Miller to assemble a task force comprised of transportation experts and influential community leaders from across the state.The task force is charged with developing a set of recommendations for a new strategic transportation approach for the state.
Continuing Education secures arts grant
KU Continuing Education has received a $7,500 grant from the Kansas Arts Commission, a first in the program's history. The grant is specifically awarded through the KU Center for Research, Inc., to the KU Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Continuing Education. The money will be used to support arts classes and arts experiences for members at the institute, including museum trips, attendance at performances and demonstrations, and tours of arts facilities and performance venues.The commission typically awards most of its grant money to arts organizations, but recognized KUCE's commitment to arts education for its Osher members. The institute, in its fourth year at KU, creates accessible and innovative learning environments for Kansans, with a special focus on participants 50 years of age and over.
Spiridigliozzi to help staff develop career maps
Erin Spiridigliozzi, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will present "Developing Your Career Map," a workshop and brownbag lunch from noon to 1 p.m. Sept. 3 in the Courtside Room of the Burge Union. The event is free and no RSVP is needed. Participants will learn how a career plan can assist in behaving more strategically in reaching a professional destination.Professor's scholarship to help students studying Latin America
KU graduate students studying Central America will benefit from a $115,000 gift to KU Endowment from Charles Stansifer, professor emeritus of Latin American history.The Stansifer Fellowship endowed fund will provide about $4,000 each year to a graduate student working on a thesis or dissertation about Central America. Fellowship recipients can be seeking degrees in any area of study.
KU graduate student James Herynk will receive the inaugural Stansifer Fellowship. He is a doctoral candidate in medical anthropology researching chronic nutritional anemia and its biological and cultural consequences in a Mayan village in Guatemala.
Awards such as these reflect KU's world-class reputation for research in Central America, Herynk said. The funds will help him expand his study into the causes and experience of anemia, one of the leading illnesses in Guatemala.
Stansifer, who retired from KU in 2005, said he wanted to create the fellowship now, while he has the opportunity to know who will benefit from it. "Sometimes people establish these fellowships and don't live long enough to see the results," he said.
KU Libraries redesigns Web site, adds features
KU Libraries has redesigned its Web site, www.lib.ku.edu with the goal of making it more intuitive and user friendly. A new federated search tool, allows users to search several databases simultaneously. Many of the regularly used search tools are now accessible from the homepage. Feedback can be e-mailed to kudiglib@ku.edu or left through the comments and suggestions form at www.lib.ku.edu/comments/.Kan-ed to provide access to academic, research, reference databases
Kan-ed, a statewide information network administered by the Board of Regents, will provide academic, reference and research database access for Kansas schools, libraries, homes and hospitals for another year.The State Library of Kansas, a Kan-ed consortium member, negotiated the terms of the purchase with the database publishers. The databases will be available, free of charge, to anyone in Kansas using a computer with a Kansas IP through Quova IP authentication, to any user of the Kan-ed Empowered Desktop, or Kansan who has a Kansas State Library Card. The databases available are: Worldbook Encyclopedia; Worldbook Advanced; ProQuest Nursing Journals; Heritage Quest; WorldCat; The Gale/Cengage package which includes Academic OneFile, General OneFile, Literature Resource Center, Chilton's Auto Repair, Health and Wellness Resource Center, Alternative Health Module, Business and Company Resource Center and Profiles ASAP, Customer Newspapers, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Military and Intelligence, Nursing and Allied Health, Legal Trac, Religion and Philosophy, Professional Collection, Computer Database, and Informe; and The Ebsco package which includes Novelist, Ultra Online Package, Middle Online Package, Primary Online Package and includes K-12 specific products such as; Encyclopedia of Animals, ERIC, Health Source: Consumer Edition, MAS Ultra School Edition, Middle Search Plus, Newspaper Source, Primary Search, Professional Development Collection, and TOPICsearch.
KU Medical Center marks 50 years of aiding Boy Scout ranch
For 50 years, KU Medical Center has provided medical services to Philmont Scout Ranch in northeast New Mexico, the Boy Scouts of America's oldest national high-adventure base. Medical students can spend two months between their first and second years as drivers at the camp. They can serve as medics as part of a rural health elective between their third and fourth years. Many students from KU School of Medicine-Wichita have participated. Earlier this month, a ribbon-cutting ceremony took place for a new infirmary at the ranch that will support activities of the doctors and medical students. KU Medical Center and KU School of Medicine-Wichita are proud to be a part of this tradition of medical service to the ranch.KU-led initiative honors Pittsburg State professor
The National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health awarded Virginia Rider of Pittsburg State University the first Sidney A. McNairy, Jr. Mentoring Award. Rider serves as campus coordinator for the Kansas IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence, a statewide, $26 million initiative supported by NCRR and headquartered at the KU Medical Center, where Joan Hunt, University Distinguished Professor of Medicine, is the principal investigator. Hunt nominated Rider for the award.The award honors Dr. Sidney McNairy, Jr. for his leadership in pioneering practical initiatives to foster robust biomedical research and well-trained researchers. As Director of the Division of Research Infrastructure at NCRR for the past decade, Dr. McNairy spearheaded the development and implementation of an entirely new concept to expand research opportunities for students and faculty in states that traditionally have had limited participation in the nation's biomedical research agenda.
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