Fri, 02/26/2021
LAWRENCE – The annual Capitol Graduate Research Summit features groundbreaking research every year from Kansas state universities. This year Ankit Verma and Nadia Alissa stood out among the University of Kansas graduate students, as each claimed the top spot in their respective divisions. Verma received the distinction as the top presenter from KU, while Alissa was the top presenter from the KU Medical Center in the 18th annual summit.
Eight KU graduate students from the Lawrence campus and five graduate students from the KU Medical Center presented their research virtually from Feb. 18 to Feb. 24.
Verma, a doctoral student in chemical & petroleum engineering, presented “A Sustainable Process for Recycling of Lithium-Ion Batteries.” Alissa, a doctoral student in cancer biology, won for her research “The Chemokine C-C Motif Ligand 2 (CCL2) Plays an Important Role in Skeletal Muscle Wasting Associated with Breast Cancer.”
George Frazier: The University Press of Kansas must be preserved
By George Frazier
In late January, I received an email from my publisher, the University Press of Kansas, that an external consultant will conduct a review of the Press and put forward a recommendation to its trustees about how or if the Press will continue to operate. As a writer and armchair academic (I have a Ph.D. in computer science but work as a software architect rather than professor), this felt like one more 2020 pandemic-year kick in the gut.
Four years ago, the Press published my book “The Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes.” Since then I’ve traveled across the state giving talks about Kansas wild places. At every stop, somebody comes up after my presentation to let me know how my book put down in print what they had felt all their lives about Kansas that it is a place that matters. Books are powerful like that. They can legitimize and validate feelings that are somet
PSU theatre explores completely virtual performance in new play ‘The Wolves’
Morning Sun
PITTSBURG, Kan. The Plaster Center on Pittsburg State University’s campus is usually brimming with athletes of all sports. The volleyball team spends their time in the gyms training, while the track team practices sprints on the indoor track.
However, in a strange turn of events, this week the Plaster center was the home of PSU’s theater department as they filmed their latest production, “The Wolves”.
Live theatre during the COVID-19 area has been hard to achieve safely. Departments at schools and universities across the country have been forced to use their creative chops to figure out ways to still allow students to perform. For the director of PSU’s latest play and an associate professor in the Department of Communication, Gil Cooper, that meant leaning into the filming side of performing while still trying to honor the essence of live theatre.
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Dr. Alicia Mason joined the PSU Department of Communication in Fall of 2009. She is a former broadcaster, who worked with local media outlets KOAM and KKOW in SE Kansas, prior to receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Mason s work has been presented at several national and international conferences, and appears in top academic journals including: Communication Quarterly, Communication Monographs, Innovative Abstracts, Health Communication, Journal of Intercultural Communication, and the International Journal of Communication and Health. Mason’s academic interest in risk/crisis communication spans organizational/business, public health, and environmental contexts.
Dr. Mason was the 2013 recipient of the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, and the 2014 recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award in the College of Arts and Sciences. Mason is the director of the Communication Research Lab at Pittsburg State University, co-advisor for the PR/Ad club, and te