KUMC 2004 Alumni Award Recipients Announced

Nine individuals, representing the KU Schools of Allied Health, Medicine and Nursing will be honored as the recipients of the 2004 KUMC Alumni Associations' Awards.

The Distinguished and Honorary Alumni Awards, as well as a new honor this year, the Early Career Achievement Award, are the highest honors the KUMC Alumni Associations bestow upon graduates of the three schools and those who have made outstanding contributions to the health care professions.
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Dole invites Clinton to speak at KU May 21 at the Lied

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton will come to Mount Oread May 21 to deliver the inaugural Robert J. Dole Lecture. Senator Dole, '45, who personally invited Clinton, said, "I cannot think of a more appropriate person to inaugurate the Dole Lecture than President Clinton. It sets entirely the right tone in terms of having the institute embody nonpartisan public service." Read more.

KU men strike it big in bowling championships

National champs reside on Mount Oread once again. The Jayhawks men bowling team claimed their first national championship last month in the 2004 Intercollegiate Bowling Championships. Read more.

KU to honor DSC winners Commencement Weekend

Three alumni and a longtime faculty member are the 2004 winners of KU's most prestigious honor, the Distinguished Service Citation. They will be honored at the All-University Supper May 21 and march in Commencement May 23. The four are Norton J. Greenberger, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; Robert A. Long, b'57, Leawood; Jean F. Shepherd, d'68, l'77, Lawrence; and Fred N. Six, c'51, l'56, Lawrence. Read more.

KU in the Capitol

2004 proves to be a positive year in the Kansas Legislature for KU and public higher education

After a long and challenging period of budget cuts and state-imposed allotment reductions, 2004 proved to be a positive year in the Kansas Legislature for KU and public higher education.

"Unlike the past two legislative sessions, the focus this year was less on cutting basic university funding and more on how best to invest in the state's higher education system," said KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway.
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This Week In KU History

May 25, 1986: KU dedicates its Vietnam Memorial in Marvin Grove, becoming the first university in the country to build such a monument.
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Department of Student Housing Joins This Week In KU History

The KU Department of Student Housing has agreed to underwrite the creation and addition of 10 new articles for This Week In KU History. The series will form a body of social history focusing on the student life experience at KU scholarship halls, residence halls, and housing co-ops.

The new articles will be researched, written, and prepared for electronic publication during the next few months, and will be uploaded to This Week In KU History during the Fall 2004 semester. The entire series will be framed as a special themed section titled "Living History: Residence Life In Retrospect" that will be accessible directly from the web site's homepage at www.kuhistory.com.

The contemplated content for this series includes original articles on Corbin Hall, Don Henry Co-op, Foster Hall, Jayhawker Co-op, Jolliffe Hall, Locksley Hall, Ricker Hall, Sterling-Oliver Hall, Templin Hall, and 1011 Indiana, one of the original KU scholarship residences and home of the self-styled "Men of 1011." The housing article series will also include an interactive component called "Hall Tales" that will enable visitors to This Week In KU History to write in their own memories of living in these halls and co-ops.

"The residence life experience is an integral part of one's undergraduate years," noted Ken Stoner, director of the KU Department of Student Housing, "yet all too often, this element of our shared memory gets lost in nostalgia. By working with This Week In KU History to develop a series of original articles based on archival research, we will retrieve this important social history of the University and share it with everyone from alumni to present-day students."

"The student housing series will be another excellent enhancement to This Week In KU History," added Henry Fortunato, project director and editor-in-chief. "We have been looking for the opportunity to include some social history in our content mix to add another degree of texture to the overall ensemble. This new collection will accomplish that and also bring us another step closer to our goal of 300 full articles."

Initiated in January 2001, This Week In KU History went live with Version 1.0 in November 2002. In December 2003, the web site launched Version 2.0 containing a series of content enhancements and infrastructure improvements with funding from the KU Endowment Association. In April, the project announced underwriting support from units at the KU Medical Center that will add approximately 30 new articles to the site by Spring 2005. This Week In KU History is a service of the KU Memorial Unions.

This Week In KU History is a project of the KU Memorial Unions.
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