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Rep. Jerry Moran-R. Kan., right, paid a visit to the School of Pharmacy last month. Dean Kenneth Audus, left; Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Richard Lariviere, center, and others gave Moran information on the university's proposal to expand, to help provide more pharmacists for Kansas.

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This work crew had the unenviable task of hauling a Steinway piano up a flight of stairs at KPR headquarters last month. The piano was purchased for the station with a gift from Phil and Beth Harrison of Lawrence. The piano made its debut during a live broadcast Jan. 25.

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Roderick Bremby, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, was the keynote speaker at the fifth annual All Multicultural Scholars Program Jan. 19. Bremby is part of one of this year's hottest political topics, coal-fired power in western Kansas.

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Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Richard Laviere views a research display involving brains at the Dole Center for Human Development with Sen. Laura Kelly, D-Topeka, center; as RaeAnn Anderson, undergraudate research assistant in the Clinical Neuropsychology and Aging Laboratory demonstrates the work.

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Roseann Runte, a French scholar who earned her doctorate at KU, is the new president - and first woman executive - of Carleton University, Canada's "capital university" in Ottawa. A dual resident of the U.S. and Canada, she was previously president of Old Dominion University. She also is president of the American Council of Education's Commission on International Education and a member of the International Parliament of Cultures.