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Lorin Maletsky, associate professor of mechanical engineering, makes a splash at the “Dunk the Dean” event. The dunk tank gave students a chance to dunk faculty members as part of Hawk Week festivities.

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Barbara Atkinson, executive vice chancellor of the KU Medical Center, presents the Center for Teaching Exellence Department Teaching Award to Hugh Catts, professor and chair of speech-language-hearing. The award, presented annually, comes with $10,000

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Jesse Jiang, Confucius Institute professor, demonstrates the techniques of water calligraphy to Big Jay and a young visitor at the Edward Campus’ recent fun fest. The event was the fourth annual summer celebration at the Edwards Campus.

KU HISTORY:

This year's crop of new students have no doubt spent time finding their way around Watson Library. Eighty-four years ago, on Sept. 11, 1924, the entire university community began exploring the new, expanded home of KU's library holdings. The library had previously been housed in Spooner Hall and a building known as “Old North.” For more, visit www.kuhistory.com.