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17 unusual facts about University of Kansas


Adego Erhiawarie Eferakeya

He gained a B Pharm from the University of Ife in 1969, a PhD from the University of Kansas Medical Centre (USA) in 1975, and an MD (Pharmacologist and Toxicologist, Physician) from the University of Kansas in 1977.

Bertram Colgrave

On his retirement from Durham University in 1954, he held visiting professorships at the University of North Carolina, University of Texas, University of Kansas, University of Colorado and Mount Holyoke College.

David Cheung

He continued his study in Education Administration at the University of Kansas.

Dean Brooks

He graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor's degree and the University of Kansas Medical School in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1942.

Edward Gottlieb

The rule was particularly advantageous for Philadelphia, which landed Overbrook High School’s Wilt Chamberlain in 1959 after his stints with the University of Kansas and the Harlem Globetrotters.

Ernest Baldwin

His work was well regarded, especially abroad, and he held visiting professorships at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Kansas.

Isadore Anderson

His record was 10-6 as head coach and most notably beat the University of Kansas twice in 1907, then coached by James Naismith, the inventor of basketball.

John Philipps Kenyon

From 1987 to 1994 he was Distinguished Professor of early modern British history at the University of Kansas.

Joseph Bruno Slowinski

He attained his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Kansas in 1984 and went on to receive his Ph.D. at the University of Miami in 1991, studying under herpetologist Jay M. Savage.

Kansas Audio-Reader Network

Audio-Reader is funded through public and private sources, and is run through the University of Kansas through KU's public radio station, KANU.

Kansas Glacier

It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, which has sent a number of research personnel to Antarctica.

Keith Loneker

although just happy to play again with his friends, ended up with a scholarship to the University of Kansas before long.

Lawrence Transit

The University of Kansas Transit Commission, composed of faculty, staff and students, is responsible for campus transportation services; KU on Wheels, Park & Ride Express, JayLift, SafeRide, and SafeBus.

Northern Sierra Madre forest monitor

It was confirmed as a new species in April 2010 by biologists from the University of Kansas.

Operation IceBridge

Operation IceBridge uses four different radar instruments operated by the operated by the Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas.

Sobasina cutleri

The species is named for salticid specialist Bruce Cutler of the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

Tracy Claeys

Claeys got his start in coaching when he attended the University of Kansas and served as a student trainer and later unpaid assistant coach for head coach Glen Mason.


2011 Kansas Jayhawks football team

The Jayhawks were led by second year head coach Turner Gill and played their home games at Memorial Stadium.

A. R. Kennedy

He played college football at both the University of Kansas, three seasons from 1895 to 1897 including one as team captain, and at the University of Pennsylvania, for one season in 1899.

Anna M. Cienciala

She taught courses in Eastern European history – with focus on modern Polish and Russian history – at the University of Ottawa and the University of Toronto in Canada, before landing a long-term career in the U.S. at the University of Kansas in 1965.

Calvin Company

It was the child of Forrest ("F. O.") Calvin, a kid from Pleasanton, Kansas, who studied journalism and advertising at the University of Kansas in the late 1920s.

Christian Ballard

As a junior he made a verbal commitment to then University of Kansas football Coach Mark Mangino, but continued to receive interest from other schools.

Conrad Dobler

Champion golfer and philanthropist Phil Mickelson heard of the Dobler family situation on ESPN and volunteered to pay for Holli and Stephen's college education at Miami University in Ohio and the University of Kansas in Lawrence, respectively.

Consortium of College and University Media Centers

The most recent CCUMC conferences were held in Lawrence, Kansas (2008 - University of Kansas), Greensboro, North Carolina (2009 - Elon University), and Buffalo, New York (2010 - University at Buffalo).

Darrow Tully

Active in civic, charitable and arts activities, Tully served as a trustee, director or officer of the Arizona Ballet, Wichita Music Theater, Phoenix Zoo, Heard Museum, University of Kansas William Allen White Foundation and Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and was a frequent lecturer at The American Press Institute.

David G. Booth

In 2004 the Booth family gave $9 million to the University of Kansas to fund the Booth Family Hall of Athletics attached to Allen Fieldhouse.

DeShawn Stevenson

Before his NBA career, he originally committed to play at the University of Kansas, but decided to enter the NBA directly from Washington Union High School in his hometown of Fresno, California, and was picked by the Utah Jazz with the 23rd selection of the 2000 NBA Draft.

Erasmus Haworth

Born on a farm near Indianola, Iowa, he graduated from the University of Kansas with a bachelor of science degree in 1883 (1881?) and received a master's degree there the following year.

Francis H. Snow

Francis Huntington Snow (June 29, 1840–September 21, 1908) was an American professor and chancellor of the University of Kansas (KU), and he became prominent through the discovery of a fungus fatal to chinch bugs and its propagation and distribution.

Francis Xavier Williams

He obtained a Bachelor of Arts from St. Ignatius College (now known as the University of San Francisco) in 1903, a BA from Stanford University, his MA from the University of Kansas in 1912 and his Doctorate of Science from Harvard University in 1915.

Helen Bonny

Helen Bonny studied with E. Thayer Gaston at the University of Kansas in the early 1960s, where she received her bachelor's degree in music education, with a major in music therapy.

Incident at Map Grid 36-80

According to Tony Shaw, Professor of Contemporary History at University of Kansas, the film serves as a Soviet counterpart to Rambo: First Blood Part II.

Jimmy Yu

He received an MA degree in Chinese Buddhist studies from University of Kansas in 2002 and a Ph.D. from Princeton University's Department of Religion in 2008.

Jon Ortner

Ortner attended University of Kansas, in Lawrence, Kansas, where he studied Photography, Eastern Philosophy, and Systematics and Ecology.

Jonathan Unger

Academic staff member of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Kansas; University of Washington and Leiden University before coming to Australian National University

Kansas City Royals Baseball Academy

Among the other members of the faculty, two were from the sport of track and fieldWes Santee and onetime University of Kansas coach Bill Easton.

Kansas State Wildcats

Finally, in the winter of 1951–1952, Kansas State's Gene Wilson broke the conference color barrier in basketball, together with LaVannes C. Squires at the University of Kansas.

Kenneth S. Davis

During his varied career, Davis was a journalism instructor at New York University, a war correspondent attached to General Eisenhower's headquarters during World War II, a member of the UNESCO Relations Staff of the Sate Department, and a professor of history at both Kansas State and the University of Kansas.

Lauren Drain

Drain was born in Tampa, Florida and lived in nearby Bradenton until age five, when she moved to Olathe, Kansas as her father enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Kansas.

Les Steckel

Steckel was born in Whitehall, Pennsylvania and attended the University of Kansas, where he was a Golden Gloves boxing champion and graduated in 1968 with a triple degree in social work, human relations, and political science.

Louis Boccardi

Boccardi is a member of the national advisory board of the Freedom Forum Center for Media Studies, and a trustee emeritus of the Newseum, and the board of visitors of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, and is an honorary trustee of the William Allen White Foundation at the University of Kansas.

Miran Hladnik

In 1984/1985, Hladnik spent the academic year at University of Kansas, USA, as Fulbright teaching assistant, teaching Slovene language at the university and also teaching the language in both Kansas City and Pittsburg, to the local American Slovenes communities.

Oleg Timofeyev

A recipient of numerous scholarly awards, including IREX and Fulbright fellowships, he has taught and lectured at Maimonides State Academy (Moscow), Duke University, the University of Kansas, Northwestern University, Princeton University, the University of Iowa, Grinnell College, and the Smithsonian.

Right Between the Ears

Beginning the late 1980s, however, full-length radio plays were de-emphasized in favor of Saturday Night Live-style comedy sketches, and by 1990 the show became an all-comedy offering, broadcast regularly over KANU-FM, the NPR station licensed to the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

Robert Worcester

A Kansas City native, Worcester graduated from the University of Kansas in 1955, and worked for a time with management consultants McKinsey & Company.

Stanley Lombardo

Stanley F. Lombardo (born 1943) is an American professor of Classics at the University of Kansas.

Ted Lockwood

Ted Lockwood (May 19, 1945 – 2005) was an aesthetic plastic surgeon in private practice and clinical assistant professor of plastic surgery at the University of Kansas Medical School, Kansas City, Kansas.

Win McCormack

McCormack's investigative coverage of the Rajneeshee movement was awarded a William Allen White Commendation from the University of Kansas and the City and Regional Magazine Association.