BOOKSHELF
WRITING MUSIC: Paul Laird, professor of music and dance, has published two books with musicologist William A. Everett, a KU alumnus. Laird and Everett co-edited “On Bunker’s Hill: Essays in Honor of J. Bunker Clark,” a collection of essays in honor of the noted musicologist who worked at KU from 1965 to 1993 and died in 2003. Laird also contributed an essay to the collection. Laird and Everett also co-wrote “The Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical.”
NOTABLE ALUMS
Paul Keim, who earned his KU doctorate in plant biochemistry in 1981, is a world leader in the genetics of Bacillus anthracis, or anthrax. When the 2001 anthrax letter attacks that killed five occurred, the FBI turned to Keim, whose Arizona lab has the world's largest database of anthrax strains. He made a match within hours. He continues to assist the national intelligence community in the area of biological weapons and genomic analysis.
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