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Virtual Tour

VIRTUALLY THERE:

The next time you want to get a look at a campus building, its surroundings or where it stands in relation to other campus landmarks, you don't have to step outside. To take a tour from your desk, visit www.virtualtour.ku.edu. The site has 360-degree views of building exteriors along Jayhawk Boulevard. Viewers can select a building and rotate the view on the screen, zoom in or out and learn basic information about all of the buildings on the tour.

TOPONYMS:

Fred Kurata, a distinguished professor and pioneer in thermodynamics research (1947-78), set up the precursor to Kurata Thermodynamics Laboratories in the old Broadcasting Hall east of the Art and Design Building. After two lab explosions in 1959, the lab was moved to a west campus building later razed to make way for the Lied Center. The present Kurata Thermodynamics Laboratories, on Crowell Drive, opened in 1990. For more, visit KU Buildings.