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CAMPUS ROUNDUP

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE-WICHITA:

Thomas Schulz, assistant professor of internal medicine, was recently invested with a professorship to boost cancer research and treatment on the Wichita campus. The professorship was established by a $1 million gift from Frank and Beverly Gaines of Hamilton. It supports a research program that enrolls Wichita patients in Phase I clinical trials, which test a new drug or treatment in a small group. As the recipient of the professorship, Schulz will be an integral member of the KU Cancer Center Phase I drug program, as well as the clinical trials program for the Midwest Cancer Alliance.

KU MEDICAL CENTER:

The medical center is taking part in a new initiative called Uplink that emphasizes the importance of math, engineering, science and technology education. The program places students in internships and teachers in summer jobs relating to their educational fields. TeacherTech, a component of Uplink, teams math, engineering, science and technology teachers with area employers, including the medical center.

EDWARDS CAMPUS:

The Edwards Campus is teaming up with Johnson County Community College to host the first Start2Finish 5k run-walk benefiting undergraduate scholarships. The race will take place at 7:30 a.m. July 26. Participants will start at JCCC, and end up at the Edwards Campus for post-run activities and a kid's fun run. Focusing on adult learners, the Start2Finish program ensures that a student's first class at JCCC counts toward a degree from KU. Start2Finish students begin at JCCC, graduate with an associate's degree and end up with a bachelor's from the Edwards Campus. More information can be found at iStart2Finish.org.

TOPONYMS:

The steam-tunnel repairs on the front lawn of Watson Library overlap the site of the first Snow Hall, the natural history building that opened in 1886. By the 1920s, the classroom and lab facility had deteriorated so badly that its stone walls had "quivering tendencies" in high winds, among other failings. New Snow Hall opened in 1930, and the old building was demolished. Its stone was saved and recycled to face the Military Science Building, completed in 1943. For more, visit www.buildings.ku.edu.