New Kansans learn lay of the land on whirlwind tour

Forty-two KU faculty and staff members traveled 1,500 miles over six days last month for a dizzying trip across Kansas. The journey was the seventh-annual installment of the KU Wheat State Whirlwind Tour.

Chancellor Robert Hemenway created the tour primarily to give faculty and staff who are new Kansans an opportunity to learn more about their new home state, their students' hometowns and their fellow Kansans.

The tour visited 38 of the state's 105 counties, following a clockwise route around the Wheat State-from Atchison in the northeast to Liberal in the southwest and from Colby in the northwest to Lindsborg and Marquette in north-central Kansas.

For more information about this year's tour, visit
http://www.ur.ku.edu/News/04N/MayNews/May13/whirlwind.html.

For more information and photos, visit http://www.wheatstate.ku.edu.