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KU Libraries Sprints Week, research and teaching collaboration open for 2024 applications
Faculty and academic staff of the University of Kansas are encouraged to submit applications for Sprints Week 2024, a five-day intensive collaboration with KU Libraries that enriches research and teaching projects and provides financial support for selected participants. Applications are open now through March 3, with all applicants notified by March 25.
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Pop-up book donation enhances collection and invites curiosity
Ann Snow opens a book and forest animals spin and play, valves and veins of the human heart unfurl, and the arches and domes of the Taj Mahal rise and construct themselves from the page.
Collaborative transcription event celebrates Douglass Day, makes historical record more accessible
No birthday celebration is complete without a cake, and there was cake to be had in Watson Library’s Clark Instructional Center, but a collective of KU students, faculty and staff were more focused on the work at hand – transcribing the personal correspondence of Frederick Douglass for the Librar
KU Libraries host journals in open access space, making scholarship available worldwide
The world of academic journal publishing can be tenuous. Anything from an editor’s untimely death to a loss of funding to a professional society’s changing priorities can terminate even highly respected journals.
Student ambassador enjoys being part of ‘something bigger’ through KU Libraries
KU Libraries Student Ambassador Weston Curnow was recently selected to serve on the National Humanities Leadership Council, part of a cohort of 32 undergra
University of Kansas joins HELIOS Open to advance open scholarship
The University of Kansas has joined the Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS Open), a cohort of universities and colleges committed to advancing open scholarship to promote inclusivity, transparency, and trustworthiness in t
KU Libraries Sprints Week, research and teaching collaboration open for 2024 applications
Faculty and academic staff of the University of Kansas are encouraged to submit applications for Sprints Week 2024, a five-day intensive collaboration with KU Libraries that enriches research and teaching projects and provides financial support for selecte
New graduate student workshops available for spring as part of Fridays on Fourth
A new slate of graduate student workshops launches today as part of Fridays on Fourth, a collaborative project aimed at boosting graduate studies w
Bristow harnessing own curiosity to encourage Makerspace experimentation, collaboration
If life experiences and personal traits combine to make a person who they are, the building blocks of Matt Bristow might include a natural curiosity, a bit of 1980s television, some mechanically minded craftsmen in the family tree, and the “freedom to get into a little bit of mischief.” Bristow b
Data Carpentry Workshop provides fundamental computational skills necessary for genomics research
Amar Kumar, a University of Kansas Ph.D. candidate in computational biology, is no stranger to R, a computer language used for statistical analysis. As a member of KU’s Funk Lab in pharmacology, Kumar regularly uses custom commands and scripts while analyzing data related to juvenile arthritis.
International Collections Librarian forging a path as a scholar, connector, mentor
Milton Machuca-Galvez understands the merit of self-sufficiency, a quality that has proven worthwhile throughout a career that has included transporting essential supplies into remote mountain ranges, as well as decades of research, teaching, and academic leadership in sometimes new and unfamilia