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With More Than Two Feet of Snow Dropped on the Kansas City-Area Over the Past Week, The University of Kansas Hospital Ensures Continuous Patient Care KANSAS CITY, Kan., Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As major snowstorms have recently battered the mid-section of the country, keeping most people home from work and school, hospitals have needed to remain open to care for existing patients and, of course, new patients that need medical care. The University of Kansas Hospital and...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com It’s often been said the first thing women notice about men is their shoes. Now, a new study suggests men AND women make several snap judgments about one another based solely (get it?!) on your footwear. For example, with a quick glance at someone’s feet, we can predict — with some accuracy — a person’s age, income, and whether they’re the clingy one in a relationship. Researchers from the University of Kansas and Wellesley College in...

CHICAGO, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Booth # 2215 -- In a continued effort to support struggling readers and help them succeed, McGraw-Hill Education and the University of Kansas have partnered to launch Fusion Reading nationally at the International Reading Association's (IRA) 57th Annual Convention. Developed by the University's Center for Research on Learning with support from McGraw-Hill education experts, Fusion Reading is a two-year, supplemental reading course designed to...

ATLANTA, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As the Kansas Jayhawks prepare for their 23rd straight NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament appearance, they have already earned one national title this season. The Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC), a division of IMG College, and the Atlanta Tipoff Club today announced The University of Kansas as the winner of the inaugural Naismith Student Section of the Year Award. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120314/CL70167LOGO) Nearly 80...

Three Kansas City organizations have teamed up with contributors from KCPT, KCSourceLink, Think Big Partners and others to develop a new, Google fiber-related website, GoogleConnectsKC.com. Kansas City, MO (PRWEB) March 09, 2012 The Kauffman Foundation, the Social Media Club of Kansas City (SMCKC) and the Mayors’ Bistate Innovations Team (MBIT) have combined forces to help Kansas City residents stay current on the happenings of Google Fiber and its impact on the city’s future through...

MACHIPONGO, Va., March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United Poultry Concerns is pleased that a plan to display and slaughter chickens as an "art" project in Lawrence, Kansas has been cancelled. In "The Story of Chickens: A Revolution," Amber Hansen, an artist-in-residence at the University of Kansas, planned to cart five chickens, housed in a nomadic coop, through the city of Lawrence in April. The chickens would be wheeled to various locations until April 21 when they...

[ Listen to the Recreation ] An international team of scientists took it upon themselves to recreate the love song of an extinct cricket that lived more than 160 million years ago during the Jurassic Period. The song was reconstructed using microscopic wing features on a fossilized bush cricket (Archaboilus musicus) found in northeast China. The call of the Jurassic cricket was simple, pure and capable of traveling long distances in the night, scientists noted. The reproduced sounds...

University of Kansas anthropologist and Maya scholar John Hoopes and his students are watching predicted doomsday dates such as 11/11/11 and Dec. 21, 2012, with considerable skepticism. Hoopes is regarded as one of the major go-to guys to separate fact from fiction about the Maya calendar and a prediction that the world would end Dec. 21, 2012. He has written scholarly articles debunking the 2012 myth, including a chapter in “2012: Decoding the Counterculture Apocalypse,” edited by...

Grim economic times could cause men to seek more sexual partners, giving them more chances to reproduce, according to research by Omri Gillath, a social psychology professor at the University of Kansas. Men are likely to pursue short-term mating strategies when faced with a threatening environment, according to sexual selection theory based on evolutionary psychology. When made to think about their own death, which mimics conditions of "low survivability," Gillath and his colleagues...

Anyone who has saved for a college education, whether for a child or for themselves, can attest it's not easy to put money away. A team of researchers from the University of Kansas and colleagues have shown that when savings accounts are started for children of low-income families and financial education is included, not only are the families more likely to save, but students can be more likely to attend college and graduate. Deborah Adams, William Elliott, Edward Scanlon and Toni Johnson,...