Ivan Osorio, professor of neurology at KU Med Center, received a fall 2005 Epilepsy Foundation Research Grant. He will pursue new research leading to the development of a prototype device that senses the evolving abnormal electrical discharge in the brain associated with seizures and returns it to normal electrical function.
After 32 years, Calder M. Pickett has stepped away from the microphone at Kansas Public Radio.
Pickett's show, "The American Past," aired for the final time Dec. 25.
"Thirty-plus years on the air, a new show every week, is a remarkable achievement," KPR Program Director Darrell Brogdon said. "There aren't many shows like 'The American Past' left on American radio. Calder's done an amazing job."
Former KU professor Sharon Stephens Brehm, professor of psychology in the clinical and social programs at Indiana University-Bloomington, has been elected president of the American Psychological Association (APA) for 2007.
During her 15 years as a faculty member at KU, Brehm was selected as an Intra-University Professor, inducted into the KU Women's Hall of Fame and appointed as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
Brehm has also served in a number of academic administrative positions, including director of the College Honors Program at KU.
When KU transitioned to Web-based enrollment, the community enrollment program was discontinued. That program was recently restarted.
A community-friendly enrollment event was held Jan. 19 in the Herb Harris Lab and Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The purpose of the event was to provide an opportunity for nondegree-seeking community members within commuting distance of the Lawrence campus to enroll in classes.
About eight staff members were on hand to assist the 40 to 60 students looking to enroll in classes.
The Office of the Vice Provost for Student Success staff located in 133 Strong Hall will move temporarily to 236 Snow Hall, beginning Jan. 30.
The staff will work from Snow while their office in Strong is renovated.
Telephone numbers will remain the same. Renovation is expected to take two months.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius recently called on the legislature to commit $5 million annually to the KU Cancer Center at the KU Medical Center.
"Cancer is one of the greatest health challenges we face," said Sebelius. "While we know more about it today than ever before, it remains a health crisis."
Sebelius said her commitment to curing cancer comes from her family. She lost an aunt to the disease when she was 10, and her husband, Gary, lost both parents to cancer.
A KU graduate teaching assistant in the School of Architecture and Urban Design has won the first Ken Dillon Memorial Fellowship for Indoor Environmental Quality Design.
Bryan Falk won the $3,500 fellowship offered by GREENGUARD Environmental Institute with his proposal to study the air quality in KU's Spencer Research Library, which houses more than 750,000 rare books and documents.
In December, Falk began a six-month study of such factors as particulate matter, air flow, speed and surface temperatures in the Spencer library to test a design solution to improve environmental conditions.
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