Self-reported overweight people, if they were Democrats are more likely to believe genetic factors cause obesity, while Republicans who see themselves are overweight still assign eating habits and lifestyle choices as the cause, according to a new study by two University of Kansas researchers
Yong Zhao has published an article arguing that education researchers should consider the side effects of new methods and measures before putting them in schools. Many approaches do have side effects, leading to poorer education. Emulating the medical field could give consumers better choices, he says.
A University of Kansas researcher and colleagues from Cornell University have revealed daunting challenges to changing the DNA of entire populations of species via the most promising techniques available today to produce “gene drive.”
A University of Kansas researcher who studies new and alternative religious movements in the United States said these questions repeatedly follow organizers of new religious movements, and these cases often test the boundaries of the First Amendment.
Jason Travers argues in a new journal article that special educators and school leaders have a moral responsibility to evaluate new interventions and products designed for students with disabilities. Failing to do so can harm students, fail to educate them optimally, waste valuable school resources and lead to teacher burnout.
Researchers examined tax records of public companies from fiscal years 1996 to 2012 and found a positive association between a company's geographic proximity to an IRS territory manager’s office and IRS audit likelihood as well as tax avoidance.
A KU project to help train teachers and school personnel across the country to better prepare students with disabilities for life after school is exceeding goals, certifying educators in numerous states and adding support for families.
A new study led by a University of Kansas researcher found 35%-40% of adults would oppose a transgender candidate for office, which was higher than the 30% who would likely oppose a gay or lesbian candidate.
Jonathan Clark, University of Kansas distinguished professor of history, discusses the historical context of constitutional issues surrounding the Brexit and the politicization of Britain's Supreme Court.
In the paper distributed this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Kansas researchers found states that did expand Medicaid under the 2010 Affordable Care Act experienced a 5.6 percent decrease in the prevalence of divorce among people ages 50-64, compared with those states that did not expand.
“We’d someday like to see LEDs that are thinner, more energy efficient and bendable,” said researcher Hui Zhao. “Think about a computer or phone screen if you could fold it a few times or and put it in your pocket.”
Researchers have found a link to growth in working memory and growth in English-language reading among young English-language learning students. The findings suggest better assessment and education that considers second language acquirement, and not just curriculum, could help prevent misdiagnoses of learning disabilities in minority students.
A University of Kansas researcher, who has extensively studied how public organizations manage dissent, predicts the Trump administration's limits on federal agencies communicating to the public will likely lead to more instances of "guerilla government," in which public servants work against the wishes of their superiors, through leaks and other means.
If you're seeking investments through online marketing or crowd-funding websites, be sure to smile in your profile photo or your post. But maybe not too big.
Interesting limestone rock found at Croatian Neanderthal site
Teeth striations of Homo habilis fossil date back 1.8 million years.
CEOs and corporate lobbyists often spend plenty of time decrying how potential government regulations will affect their bottom line, but a new University of Kansas study finds that the U.S. Clean Water Act, when implemented in the right balance, improves firms' profitability.
In December of last year, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe announced startling results hinting at the existence of an undiscovered subatomic particle — one with a mass six times heavier than the Higgs boson, the particle that made headlines in 2012.
Race not gender appears to be the most significant factor influencing the award of a National Institutes of Health Research Project Grant, according to a new study led by a University of Kansas economist.
LAWRENCE — U.S. immigration policy has become a hotly debated issue in the presidential primaries, and it figures to continue in the campaign as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump appear headed to receiving their parties' nominations later this summer.
Adolescence and teenage years can be a tough time for many kids. For gender and sexual minority youths, it can be even more challenging. And for gender and sexual minority youths living in rural areas without the resources and support for LGBTQ youths in urban areas, there are still more challenges. A University of Kansas professor has authored a study into the unique challenges gender and sexual minority youths living in rural areas face and how social workers, communities and educators can help guide them.
A study appearing in the journal PLOS ONE this week shows that bioluminescence -- the production of light from a living organism -- is more widespread among marine fishes than previously understood.
Two new papers appearing in the journal Nature this week are “slam-dunk” evidence that energies from supernovae have buffeted our planet, according to astrophysicist Adrian Melott of the University of Kansas.
Rise of nationalism creates most complex problems since WWII, researcher says.
While academic awareness of African peoples' hunting with poison-tipped arrows extends back for centuries, knowledge of the ingenious practice has been scattered among chemistry, entomology and anthropology texts.
As delegates from 195 nations meet in Paris to debate mankind’s response to global climate change, scientists from the University of Kansas and Rothamsted Research in England today issue a study of a major crop pest that underlines how “climate is changing in more ways than just warming.”
KiVa, implemented in Finland in 2007, has impressed researchers with its proven reduction in bullying incidents. According to one recent study, KiVa “halved the risk of bullying others and of being victimized in one school year.”
As suburban school districts have gained advantages over their urban counterparts, they have tenaciously clung to them, often at the expense of urban districts.
A gift to the University of Kansas provides the definitive collection of influential writer, co-inventor of "live long and prosper."
Elite cyclists have larger hearts than the typical person, so they’re able to push out more blood per beat. They’re able to extract more oxygen from their blood than an untrained individual would.
Bill Lacy, longtime political strategist and the director of the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas, is available to speak with media about tonight's Republican debate.
Writers examine themes of race, religion, morality, gender and class as they explore the sociocultural impact of J.K. Rowling's books.
Eric Vernberg found that it is not only victims of bullying who make more visits to the school nurse — it is the aggressors as well.
People lose the ability to manage their lifelong collection of possessions and this becomes an obstacle to moving to a safer neighborhood, nearer to family members or into assisted living. Why is it so hard to get rid of stuff?
Island-dwelling white-eyes have long been dubbed "great speciators" for their apparent ability to rapidly form new species across geographies where other birds show little or no diversification.
While modern spiders make silk threads with appendages called spinnerets, the primitive spider wove broad sheets of silk from spigots on plates attached to the underside of their bodies. Unlike spiders, they had long tails too. Even more creepy.
"Our nation's emergency managers do not fully appreciate the potential of the Internet and emerging social media," the researcher says
Female candidates become more masculine and male candidates adopt feminine qualities when in debate with each other, university researcher says. Available for interviews about the Biden-Palin debate Oct. 2.
Premature babies with respiratory distress syndrome have difficulty learning to eat after lengthy tube feedings. But new research shows preterms who used the NTrainer, a new therapeutic device, learned more rapidly to suck far better and transitioned to oral feeding faster. The syndrome is a leading cause of death among infants under a year.
The world's largest study to date on language emergence has shown that 80 percent of children with language delays at age 2 will catch up by age 7. But this also means that for one in five late-talking toddlers, language delays persist.
Humans have overused antibiotics in areas such as agriculture, worsening the dilemma of highly resistant bacteria, a University of Kansas researcher says in a journal article. Drug corporations must develop antibiotics with the potential not only to kill microbes but also to inhibit their ability to mutate, he advises.
Intense deforestation in Mexico could ruin one of North America's most celebrated natural wonders "” the mysterious 3,000-mile migration of the monarch butterfly.
NASA astronaut to become ambassador for science education in his home state of Kansas, including encouraging more student to pursue careers teaching and reduce the shortage of science and math teachers.
Using tools from the branch of mathematics known as graph theory to human memory to understand how words are stored may explain why many patients recover language skills after brain trauma such as stroke. Research suggests that the brain organizes words by sound, by word meaning or by a combination of sound and meaning. The connections throughout the brain though are varied creating shortcuts.
Government monitoring for H5N1 focuses on migrating waterfowl in Alaska. According to A. Townsend Peterson, a more effective system to detect the appearance of H5N1 would track wild birds all along the Atlantic and Pacific "flyways" of North America.
Researchers from the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), based at the University of Kansas, have discovered a hot spot in Greenland where high temperatures underneath a thin area of the Earth's crust are causing significant melting of ice. Timothy E. Leftwich, a CReSIS postdoctoral engineer, will present results on Thurs. December 13, 2007, at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
In 1954 Betty Grimwood contacted the University of Kansas with an idea to invite international students to spend the holiday with families her hometown of Burns, a farm community about 60 miles northeast of Wichita. The tradition is still going strong in its 53rd year and more important than ever.
The first major national traveling exhibition celebrating the life, work and legacy of Aaron Douglas, an African-American recognized as the most important visual artist of the Harlem Renaissance, opens in September in Kansas; will travel to Nashville, Washington D.C. and New York City in 2008.
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